Rohan
August 4th, 2003, 12:59 PM
I'd like to hear what sort of value scale people use or have been taught, and maybe a bit about how they practice and implement these in their work.
Personally I gravitate towards a 3 tone scale for simple studies and pen work; this being a basic dark, halftone, and light, then a 5 tone scale if using graded spirit markers or pencil/pastel studies and I'm now working towards using 9 tones as a basis for a new tonal approach to my oil/acrylic paintings, I used to take a much more disorganised approach with a medial degree of success, but now want to explore the concept much deeper.
I guess I should really include some samples of what I'm talking about but I'm somewhat PC incapacitated at the moment. I'd love to hear some other opinions though.
Is there any advantages to using another method, I could imagine one could use a 9 tone scale and then keep a 10 in your back pocket as an extreme light or dark on either end of the scale, for extra punch. I guess that begs a quote from "this is Spinal Tap", Nigel Tuffnell: "these amps go to 11.. well that's one louder, isnt it?"
Personally I gravitate towards a 3 tone scale for simple studies and pen work; this being a basic dark, halftone, and light, then a 5 tone scale if using graded spirit markers or pencil/pastel studies and I'm now working towards using 9 tones as a basis for a new tonal approach to my oil/acrylic paintings, I used to take a much more disorganised approach with a medial degree of success, but now want to explore the concept much deeper.
I guess I should really include some samples of what I'm talking about but I'm somewhat PC incapacitated at the moment. I'd love to hear some other opinions though.
Is there any advantages to using another method, I could imagine one could use a 9 tone scale and then keep a 10 in your back pocket as an extreme light or dark on either end of the scale, for extra punch. I guess that begs a quote from "this is Spinal Tap", Nigel Tuffnell: "these amps go to 11.. well that's one louder, isnt it?"