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- composition — the skill of “what to put in and what to leave out”
- ways to put the available effort where it matters and not where it doesn’t
- environment setup. how do you get all the things you need for this and then use them
- how do you come up with ideas for things you could paint with your current lack of skill
- something like an action menu of moves you can do
Composition
cf. Cezanne
Take a complicated photo. Spend 1 minute identifying what you find interesting about it and planning out your next move. Then spend 3 minutes conveying that with 30 shapes, where a shape is a line, an arc, a circle.
Look at a well composed image. Stare at it for 3 minutes. Now draw it from memory – just the compositional elements. Now look at it again. What did you miss that’s important?
Walk around Berkeley campus or something taking photos with the intention of turning at least five into sketches
Color
Notation
- 8 hues: Red orange yellow chartreuse forest cyan blue purple
- 10 saturation: 0 is gray, 10 is the max that hue can be
- 10 values: 0 is black, 10 is white
quick theory
- the first thing you want to do is get your contrasts right. mentally switch to grayscale or use an app to do so, and see if it looks nice
- the easiest way to achieve unity in a palette is to mix one color into most of the colors on your image, so that the whole painting is subtly pink, etc. This will effectively decrease the saturation
Make a five color painting, pass it around, change two colors at a time
- clear acetate sheets
EATD
Take your worst sketch and do it better
“Sometimes there is no secret sauce because the secret sauce is just extreme attention to detail (EATD) That’s it, that’s the trick. You can build tech to facilitate EATD, to speed it up, to lower its cost, whatever, but for many tasks there just is no substitute for it” http://x.com/larsiusprime/status/1915152340782289250