Sometimes coming up with a compelling composition can be a real pain! You draw tons of thumbs but just can't get something you want to proceed with. I found something that works really well for me and that has really helped speed up my workflow and I think improved my compositions quite a bit since I started doing it. The best part is, it's easy. Invert your sketches? That's right invert them to white on black rather than the other way around. Sometime all the white info on page can literally bleach your vision and make it hard to see. Also when doing contemporary concept work a finished painting has a ton of black in it, so starting with the lights off so to speak allows you to start turning them on with white sketch lines and then move on to colors quickly. It takes a bit of getting used to but when you start drawing your highlights first the place them on a screen or linear dodge layer, you can then just move on to painting in quick color block in's beneath and you'll be surprised at how fast you get things done and in my opinion just with a simple variation on technique that really makes a difference. Keep in mind black lines rarely exist in nature but white highlight lines are everywhere. I started doing this by doing inversion on black over white sketches but now start most of my paintings this way and just sketch white on black from the start. Give it a shot and I think you'll find it allows you to read composition a lot faster and more effectively that black on white sketches. Hope that is helpful!!
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IIID
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