[AliasMoze]

Greetings.

Lately I've been learning more and more about values and color/saturation, and I've been stuck with a question:

In a given painting, especially one from the imagination, is there always a balance between design and accuracy of the various elements? Granted, the drawing is the drawing, and accuracy is important, but what about values? Do we push things to black? Do we boost some of the brights?

I asks, because I find myself more and more just standing back and painting what looks right, instead of "measuring". Any thoughts?

[gArGOyLe^]

I think that things look "right" when the values are correct..

I'm not sure what you are asking though.. It would depend on the type of art work you are doing.. and the type of light I think..

[Ian Jones]

Judge the values for yourself. Make artistic and design decision for what you believe looks right. Even the most photo real paintings are still designed. They have been composed, the elements carefully chosen and the execution carefully pre-determined. So design happens everywhere.

I don't think you'll find to many artists concerned with photon measurements... lol

[Rinaldo]

I have the same problem/question=/

I am ultra critical and niggly when it comes to getting it "right" so lately I've been trying (desperatly) to just do whatever looks best.
otherwise my good intentions start to ruin the pic with too much thinking.
it all depends on what you are drawing tho. I would go for readability/focus over what should actuialy be there, but that is me.
I think even if you are doing pretty realistic work you have to do some interpretation.
otherwise what's the point? eh?

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pls make this a long thread
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