With paintings, it's often second nature to want to jump in and start painting the fun stuff. A project I've been working on is actually excellent for illustrating my point here. Two days ago, I spent 5 hours working in the studio, and all I got accomplished were the two pictures above and below.
This was obviously not the most fun day in the studio. We've all taken classes where we had to do perspective drawings and color wheels, but before tackling a fantasy painting that you want to render as realistically as possible, these steps actually save you a ton of headache.
When it boils down to it, we're talking about 5 hours of planning now, or 25 hours of restarts and corrections later.
Seems like a good idea when you put it that way.
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