For warm up and practice I will do a copy of a painting, film still, photo etc
I do this before getting into a days work but its also very helpful for training. You can learn a lot copying stroke for stroke a master painting, trying to match the colours and drawing it as accurately as possible with the colour. Obviously these are photoshop studies and not in real paint, I'm not that fast.
Here are a few Anders Zorn studies I worked on the last few mornings to warm up, I don't always finish them but if the the photo I am copying has a frame I cut that out and paste it over the copy to frame my image the way the one in the photo is, it really helps to judge values against as its the same in both images.
Also added a film still from Alien 3. I dont spend to long on these, an hour tops. think of it like stretching before a run, just gets the brain working and hands doing what you want them to do.
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