今天一天因为身体的缘故心情一直低落，但是说好了每天要专项练习，就要练习！我可是跟自己说好了的，哼。于是一边听伤心的音乐一边练习，反而心情好了一点。这两天的专项练习是，画画的流程本身。

I was feeling low and unmotivated today but! I promised myself I would stick to my plans. I wanted to. So I put on some sad music and got started anyway. The drills that I’ve been doing for the past few days were on the subject of processes themselves, because, I work so slow and get stuck so much all over the place it’s getting rather out of hand. Hopefully drilling my process themselves on increasingly complex subjects would get me out of this spot.

昨天今天加起来把这只简单的苹果流程画完，今天碰巧刷网站看到 Loish 说第一次使用涂抹工具（smudge tool）很好用，也就在边缘控制（edge control）的练习部分试了一下，果然很方便啊！闭塞（occlusion shadow）也是我现在努力想要注意的部分，以前都没怎么放在心上。

Inspired by one of Loish’s posts today I also tried out the smudge tools for the first time, especially on edge controlling, and it was magnificent indeed. I also tried paying more attention to occlusion shadows because I’ve been largely ignoring them.

上面这张虽然型不是很准，但是起码走流程画的东西越来越复杂了。这里我用黑白稿修正了色稿，除去了干扰的背景。

晚上跟朋友讨论了一番，到底是先有色稿还是先有黑白稿的问题。

如果是一开始在好几个稿之间考虑怎样构成比较好看，果然还是用黑白稿比较直接，比如 kk 这里的，一开始可是打了很多稿，最后才选中了最后一个：

This latest one above wasn’t mega accurate in shapes, but at least I’m dealing with more complex objects going through the same process. Here I adjusted the coloured sketch based on the value sketch, dropping unimportant details.

On the topic of processes, I had a discussion with an artist friend about whether the Coloured sketch should come before or after the Value sketch.

If we’re not sure of the composition, Value sketches can be of great value (heh). For instance in Krenz’s initial sketches phase he did four of them before picking one to continue:

但是有的时候就是心情上来，想画一个超级潦草的色稿意思一下，表达一下那种氛围感，尤其是已经有世界观、知道想要把人放在什么背景下，又找好了光色参考，就是想立刻马上看到最后效果，看看喜不喜欢才继续，这时候迅速色一下也很爽。

However sometimes the mood struck and you already knew the atmosphere you wanted, and would like to quickly check whether the end result would work. If that’s the case it could also be a pleasure quickly splashing out some Coloured sketches.