You're a great teacher. Too many artists demonstrate by having you watch what they paint and then narrate as a 'stream of consciousness' while doing so. You start with an important principle and then paint with that very principle in mind. Thoroughly enjoyed it!
It is interesting to observe how a great artist tries to paint badly yet he can`t help unconsciously still painting better than most! Love your incredibly conscientious teaching method; am extremely grateful for your generous sharing of expertise, thank you, Scott. Since I am living with a disability and am as a result, impecunious, I can not yet afford to pay for lessons from you, so double thanks and appreciation for giving as you do.
I've been taught to limit the number of values in my painting. By doing this, we create a more powerful statement. Scott's tonal compression including value, hue, and chroma takes this principle to it's natural conclusion. In practice, tonal compression is actually difficult to do. There is a lot of "pushing and pulling", as Scott mentions. It takes years of practice and, in the end, all artists spend their entire lives studying and learning and growing.
As I said last week, I have just found you.....why didn't RUclips give me these over the last years of searching!!!!!!....... Anyway I am now binge watching all your videos. They are marvelous. Excellent content, excellent teaching. Thanks, from Australia.
I watched this three times; I have never heard anyone talk about compression but it makes so much sense. UGH. I feel like I learn all this important stuff at a snails pace without school: thank you for keeping me out of the dark… again.😅
Scott you are a genius in the true sense of the word.. i love your videos, love your painting and love your style of delivery. You give extremely valuable lessons in such a delightful , humorous way. Love your style of teaching.
I'm sitting in my studio painting a portrait as I watch this, and I immediately recognized the areas where I need to apply tonal compression. When I was in college, high contrast was strongly encouraged, so I never really grasped this concept. That inverted Vitruvian ratio mucus has worked its magic! Genuinely though, Thanks for teaching and demonstrating this. I am excited to implement this on my own oil paintings. I'm not so sure about Alan as the new mascot. I'm pretty sure the surprise cat that scaled up your shoulder a while back is vying for the mascot role. :D
Great tutorial, and great teacher and love your humor. I'm borrowing "Payne's Grey of the brains" and "window shading". Twenty years ago I attempted to paint by tonal compression which I wasn't aware it was what I was doing and painting one area at a time. I was accused by a painting teacher of "painting by numbers". Dropped out of that class and unfortunately stopped painting all together. So happy I found you on RUclips and will start painting again and planning on purchasing your videos.
I am so grateful to have found your channel. The beauty of your work combined with your sense of humor is such an entertaining thing to witness. Thank you for being you and sharing your work with us
This particular video is gold, applying what you've demonstrated in this video has taking my oil paintings to the next level, I'm able to paint portraits more accurate, efficiently and faster. Thank you for the great advice, you really have a gift for explaining things clearly and consice.
Thanks. This was really helpful. Especially the tip about mixing a base colour and then mixing everything else from that and adjusting it as you go to keep it unified.
Your video's are the best. I was a patreon but then went off exploring watercolour, pastels Acrylic Argh .. charcoal, graphite, but after working in them all i am back to oils . I will be rejoining your Patreon on Feb 1st Thanks for making me smile in these grim times
Coming technically from the worlds of audio and photography I understand your 'tonal compression' is really 'dynamic range' and tonal compression is the means by which you fit the information into a given range. I love to see the connections between different systems of understanding and that they almost explain one another is fascinating. Logarithms, thats how we perceive the world, light in sight, volume in hearing, even taste, and smell are perceived logarithmically - I have yet to find proof for touch but I suspect it's similar.
I'm so glad I found your videos, they are just what I need right now. I know it might be lame to say, but honestly your paintings floor me every time, just amazing.
You are a fabulous teacher and your videos are pure gold! Question: would you suggest beginners, or those that are really trying to dial into this idea of tonal compression to start by placing the “too light” one tone areas as you have demonstrated and then working down into the compression, or start attempting to compress as we go, and fix as needed? 15:21
Brilliant as usual. Couple of suggestions for future lessons: 1. Emotions. In portrait of my 4 kids discovered the tiniest lilt to anything can change thru disinterested, amused, vacant, thoughtful, disgusted... eyes, mouth etc. We all recognise subtle expressions but WHY we are reading this is not always apparent. The de Niro factor of not doing much with face can say everything. 2. Taking photos for portraits.
Me resulta fascinante tu pintura...no sé inglés y solo sigo visualmente tus explicaciones....me gustaría que estuvieran subtitulados para aprender más... enhorabuena por tu trabajo!!!
The "Bas-relief" effect - the mistake makes it look like a portrait on a coin. The other way that I was taught to think about it... is that the brightest part of the shaded area is darker than the darkest part of the lit area.
Great lesson! Seems like it should be obvious, but we often don't think about this concept of controlling our pallet through compression and then wonder why our colors and lighting look so chaotic. This one demands repeat watching.
I have painted and drawn for many years but I never actually learned anything like this. I just found your videos and loved it. Is there some videos for a super beginner to try to teach myself actual techniques?
Well, at least I got my 73% worth. Now if I just didn't spend so much time watching French Bulldogs Farting on RUclips, I might actually complete a painting.
A lot of contemporary painters seem not only to over-model form a little bit, but actively exaggerate, putting in solid blocks of value which are extreme and distracting.
always great content ... funny the 'compression' word choice. I've always considered 'subtlety' the essence of mastery in any craft, and that also includes the essence of mastery for those perceiving and judging arts and craft. so the principle applies to drawing itself as well, no? (facial expression of, let's say, tizian portraits, etc :) in terms of technique I also wanted to share some thoughts: it probably is the case that bougereau was approaching the canvas in the way you do. have seen an old photograph of his wife in front of an unfinished canvas of hers and the lay-in looks similar to yours. and obviously, the end result of the skin tonal values of your work is eerily similar to the great french master, as well as the even 'enamel finish' that he was so proud about. but there's also the approach of glazing, as you know, and that makes the 'subtlety of true mastership' (compression) a much more 'natural' issue. I believe the approach shared by osamu obi (another tutor and master here on yt) to be a legitimate re-creation of dutch painting around the time of rembrandt. using white dragged above layers of underpants to bring the grisaille core to more-and-more refinement and body seems truly deserving the title 'grand maniera' (as the renaissance italians were apparently calling it according to luis borrero, another excellent teacher here on yt). this isn't easy at all to master. and that's why mr. obi always shows alla-prima exercises in-between in order to get one's head around the rather conceptual layering in a rather ancient tempera tradition (the bach fugue approach to fine art?). haha, I've seen him glazing primary colours (starting with yellow) to obtain perfect colour grades of old masters in the end. (which, from a modern art point of view i find really remarkable as it brings chuck close's hyper-realism, one-teaspoon-of-paint to spraypaint a large photographic-illusion-rendering canvas to another level ...). anyway. just saying hello. you're doing an amazing job, also when it comes to teaching. teaching has suffered greatly during the course of nwo tavistock machination. your humourous, open and sincere delivery to convey well-thought-through, practice honed art skills, probably re-defines the whole profession. best regards 🕊️
You're a great teacher. Too many artists demonstrate by having you watch what they paint and then narrate as a 'stream of consciousness' while doing so. You start with an important principle and then paint with that very principle in mind. Thoroughly enjoyed it!
I absolutely Hate those channels. Just flexing, with no actual insight.
It is interesting to observe how a great artist tries to paint badly yet he can`t help unconsciously still painting better than most! Love your incredibly conscientious teaching method; am extremely grateful for your generous sharing of expertise, thank you, Scott. Since I am living with a disability and am as a result, impecunious, I can not yet afford to pay for lessons from you, so double thanks and appreciation for giving as you do.
I've been taught to limit the number of values in my painting. By doing this, we create a more powerful statement. Scott's tonal compression including value, hue, and chroma takes this principle to it's natural conclusion. In practice, tonal compression is actually difficult to do. There is a lot of "pushing and pulling", as Scott mentions. It takes years of practice and, in the end, all artists spend their entire lives studying and learning and growing.
As I said last week, I have just found you.....why didn't RUclips give me these over the last years of searching!!!!!!....... Anyway I am now binge watching all your videos. They are marvelous. Excellent content, excellent teaching. Thanks, from Australia.
I watched this three times; I have never heard anyone talk about compression but it makes so much sense. UGH. I feel like I learn all this important stuff at a snails pace without school: thank you for keeping me out of the dark… again.😅
Scott you are a genius in the true sense of the word.. i love your videos, love your painting and love your style of delivery. You
give extremely valuable lessons in such a delightful , humorous way. Love your style of teaching.
I'm sitting in my studio painting a portrait as I watch this, and I immediately recognized the areas where I need to apply tonal compression. When I was in college, high contrast was strongly encouraged, so I never really grasped this concept. That inverted Vitruvian ratio mucus has worked its magic!
Genuinely though, Thanks for teaching and demonstrating this. I am excited to implement this on my own oil paintings.
I'm not so sure about Alan as the new mascot. I'm pretty sure the surprise cat that scaled up your shoulder a while back is vying for the mascot role. :D
Great tutorial, and great teacher and love your humor. I'm borrowing "Payne's Grey of the brains" and "window shading". Twenty years ago I attempted to paint by tonal compression which I wasn't aware it was what I was doing and painting one area at a time. I was accused by a painting teacher of "painting by numbers". Dropped out of that class and unfortunately stopped painting all together. So happy I found you on RUclips and will start painting again and planning on purchasing your videos.
I am so grateful to have found your channel. The beauty of your work combined with your sense of humor is such an entertaining thing to witness. Thank you for being you and sharing your work with us
This particular video is gold, applying what you've demonstrated in this video has taking my oil paintings to the next level, I'm able to paint portraits more accurate, efficiently and faster. Thank you for the great advice, you really have a gift for explaining things clearly and consice.
Exactly right,this video is gold.thank you SIR &GOD BLESS
Thanks. This was really helpful. Especially the tip about mixing a base colour and then mixing everything else from that and adjusting it as you go to keep it unified.
Your video's are the best. I was a patreon but then went off exploring watercolour, pastels Acrylic Argh .. charcoal, graphite, but after working in them all i am back to oils . I will be rejoining your Patreon on Feb 1st Thanks for making me smile in these grim times
Just love your tutorials and humor. Now that's tonel compression for you. a "Payne's Grey of the brain" classic.
Coming technically from the worlds of audio and photography I understand your 'tonal compression' is really 'dynamic range' and tonal compression is the means by which you fit the information into a given range. I love to see the connections between different systems of understanding and that they almost explain one another is fascinating. Logarithms, thats how we perceive the world, light in sight, volume in hearing, even taste, and smell are perceived logarithmically - I have yet to find proof for touch but I suspect it's similar.
I love those soft skin tones you create. I am learning a lot. Thank you
This lesson was exactly what i needed to hear to improve my own work. Thank you most sincerely.
Live you humor. Great lesson.
Alan.
Allan?
...Allen?
I DONT KNOW ANYMORE!!!!
(Great video as always Scott!) ☺
I'm so glad I found your videos, they are just what I need right now. I know it might be lame to say, but honestly your paintings floor me every time, just amazing.
I now have a new favourite start to a video ever! Achoo!
This video is just what I needed! Thank you so much
Thanks for all you share . ❤
you are an amzing artist oh how i would love to paint realism like you ,thank you
Great video! Excited to apply this in my next painting. Thank you!
Fantastic tutorial 🙏
Gracias por sus videos y compartir sus conocimientos
You are a fabulous teacher and your videos are pure gold! Question: would you suggest beginners, or those that are really trying to dial into this idea of tonal compression to start by placing the “too light” one tone areas as you have demonstrated and then working down into the compression, or start attempting to compress as we go, and fix as needed? 15:21
Wow! Great video!
Brilliant as usual. Couple of suggestions for future lessons: 1. Emotions. In portrait of my 4 kids discovered the tiniest lilt to anything can change thru disinterested, amused, vacant, thoughtful, disgusted... eyes, mouth etc. We all recognise subtle expressions but WHY we are reading this is not always apparent. The de Niro factor of not doing much with face can say everything. 2. Taking photos for portraits.
I went on RUclips and listened to actors and body language folk to become conscious of what I was looking at to fix it.
Wonderful, insightful instruction. Thank you!
Love all your videos. I even bought some. Guess I’m a fan!
Me resulta fascinante tu pintura...no sé inglés y solo sigo visualmente tus explicaciones....me gustaría que estuvieran subtitulados para aprender más... enhorabuena por tu trabajo!!!
The "Bas-relief" effect - the mistake makes it look like a portrait on a coin. The other way that I was taught to think about it... is that the brightest part of the shaded area is darker than the darkest part of the lit area.
Merci bravo pour cette leçon !
Che bella lezione…
Grazie
Happy New Year and thankyou.
Great lesson! Seems like it should be obvious, but we often don't think about this concept of controlling our pallet through compression and then wonder why our colors and lighting look so chaotic. This one demands repeat watching.
Excellent video content 😊
How are you spelling Alan?
I am hooked
Sort of doubt that you will read this, but love your videos Scott.
Awesome video, thanks Scott!
great information *************** gold stars for you stud
Great video. Very helpful, thank you.
Brilliant, great advice, great content as always.
Very good explanation!
great video
Thank you Scott, Great video and information _)
Just like the Velociraptor in Jurassic Park III. ALAN!
This video is an eyeopener! Do you do critiques?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Scott you are just from a different planet.
Is it Allen or Alan? 😂 Really enjoyed this video. Love how you present information.
Saya sang suka lukisan anda..
Smoga sukses selalu..
Salam persahabatan slalu..
Hey Steve, thanks for video. Do you think it would be possible to achieve same result with acrylic?
You are so funny. Luv yr tutorials
Ooh! Now I see (one of the many things) what I've been doing wrong! Ta!
8:41pm
Golly, Scott, would you consider showing us your technique for painting hands, please? I know I could sure use your help!
Legend
You are so wonderful
Master❤
That’s my name, don’t wear it out ! quote from , Pee-wee Herman ! 😂
Hallo . Kann mir jemand sagen, von welchem Firma benutzt der Artist ihre lineöl ?
Boom! You've been looking over my shoulder! Guilty as. charged!
I'm down with Alan! 🙂
I really like that unique style. I just wonder if the lack of texture is deliberate. they all look like beautiful porcelain people.
dommage sous titres non disponibles. Donc je n'ai pas pu apprécié !!
Thank You so much
...I am just painting a portrait of Imagination .. good luck ..
for me .
I WISH YOU ALL an amazing painting journey through Life
You are the best evet
I never understood color. I thought I did. Now I realize that I am color. Than you sir.
Alan all day
lütfen altyazıyı otomatik açabilir misiniz? değerli bilgilerinizi ben de anlamak istiyorum, sevgiler
Legendas indisponível
Alan!
Legendas em português please
Demais❤❤❤❤
How do you not have 200,000. Subscribers??
When the moment of truth spills out...."because I'm not saving enough money...for retirement." Lmao.
well said
This is fantastic 🤌🏼
Alan 😍
Thanks, this is a mistake I have made. My mantra will be tonal compression going forward.
Tradução aos seus vídeos por favor...
Sir you are a great artist and genius man love you sir
Alan❤
Scott, is his name spelled Allen, Alan, Allyn, Alin, Alyn or some other variation?
There's a silent "q" at the end.
I have painted and drawn for many years but I never actually learned anything like this. I just found your videos and loved it. Is there some videos for a super beginner to try to teach myself actual techniques?
alan!!!
Legendas
Well, at least I got my 73% worth. Now if I just didn't spend so much time watching French Bulldogs Farting on RUclips, I might actually complete a painting.
❤❤❤❤
A lot of contemporary painters seem not only to over-model form a little bit, but actively exaggerate, putting in solid blocks of value which are extreme and distracting.
always great content ...
funny the 'compression' word choice. I've always considered 'subtlety' the essence of mastery in any craft, and that also includes the essence of mastery for those perceiving and judging arts and craft.
so the principle applies to drawing itself as well, no? (facial expression of, let's say, tizian portraits, etc :)
in terms of technique I also wanted to share some thoughts:
it probably is the case that bougereau was approaching the canvas in the way you do. have seen an old photograph of his wife in front of an unfinished canvas of hers and the lay-in looks similar to yours. and obviously, the end result of the skin tonal values of your work is eerily similar to the great french master, as well as the even 'enamel finish' that he was so proud about.
but there's also the approach of glazing, as you know, and that makes the 'subtlety of true mastership' (compression) a much more 'natural' issue. I believe the approach shared by osamu obi (another tutor and master here on yt) to be a legitimate re-creation of dutch painting around the time of rembrandt. using white dragged above layers of underpants to bring the grisaille core to more-and-more refinement and body seems truly deserving the title 'grand maniera' (as the renaissance italians were apparently calling it according to luis borrero, another excellent teacher here on yt).
this isn't easy at all to master. and that's why mr. obi always shows alla-prima exercises in-between in order to get one's head around the rather conceptual layering in a rather ancient tempera tradition (the bach fugue approach to fine art?). haha, I've seen him glazing primary colours (starting with yellow) to obtain perfect colour grades of old masters in the end. (which, from a modern art point of view i find really remarkable as it brings chuck close's hyper-realism, one-teaspoon-of-paint to spraypaint a large photographic-illusion-rendering canvas to another level ...).
anyway. just saying hello. you're doing an amazing job, also when it comes to teaching. teaching has suffered greatly during the course of nwo tavistock machination. your humourous, open and sincere delivery to convey well-thought-through, practice honed art skills, probably re-defines the whole profession.
best regards 🕊️
You are the God of beginners portrait artists
please subtitles
PS My next painting is of a red haired girl. Have you painted red hair?
👍🏻👍🏻
I like Allen
Not nasal compresion👌😂🙏
The SECRET to OIL PAINTING! is painting with water colors ;)
Maybe Jeremy, not Alan. Oh no, wait. Hugh.. see what I did?