Understanding values is essential to good painting. This video covers the basics of building up a painting by first establishing a 5-point value scale and breaking down your subject into a few simple shapes of value.
More tablet reviews are coming but I hope that you still find an instructional video like this interesting and... valuable.
Let me know in the comments if you have any comments or suggestions.
This was done in Magma, which you can try out for free here: www.magma.com
For the same reference image I used: unsplash.com/photos/wBvWTLnng6A
And in terms of a drawing tablet, I used the Artist 12 2nd Gen by XPPEN. You can find my review of that here: • A cheap drawing tablet with a screen ...
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