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Key – What It Is, Why It Matters To Your Drawings, And How To Change It (Part One)

In a previous post, I mentioned that it’s possible to realistically change the “key” of part of a drawing to make it work better. Key is the range of values in a drawing and manipulating those values is a little … Continue reading

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Red Horses, Green Fields, and Why Artists Have to Lie

I wrote in my Valentine post that I’d exaggerated the values in that drawing. Drawing in gray scale requires a bit of reality manipulation sometimes because many colors are the same value. For example red and green are often the … Continue reading

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