AdeptiCon 2023 Video Demos : SKETCHING

HELLO GUYS!!!
I'm officially back home after the absolutely mind blowing AdeptiCon experience :D
Thank you so soooo soooooo much to all the amazing people that stopped to say hi and chat, for the warm welcome and the overload of positive vibes!!!
I love you guys!!!
But this is just the tip of the iceberg of me saying thank you to the community for this transformative weekend that deserves its own dedicated post ;)

Here you can find one of the two videos I prepared as "augmented reality" reference material for my classes; aware of the the limitations of the Con format and the small time slots I recorded a real time demo of a sketching process evolving into a proper fully formed grisaille using just white paint over the black primer.
The underpainting/transparency process can become a painting system by itself, but I like to think of it more as a painting philosophy that reveals what are the real priorities and hierarchies in a paint job, information that you can adapt to any style and method because those priorities are objectively always the same, just less obvious and explicit!
The point is: if you don't deliver good values aka a good render of virtual volumes and fake masses (representative of a presence in the virtual space that a tiny piece of plastic doesn't have!), perfect harmonies and cool schemes cannot save your paintjob (unless you are an abstract painter lol!).
The disclaimer I give to the classes is that, this is probably the hardest way to do this exercise (during workshops and classes I like to challenge to my students ;) so don't be too harsh with yourself during the first experiments) because to create the greyscale you have only the transparency of white optically mixing with back, but it's also the most historically accurate and the one that delivers the steepest learning curve because you can only move forward and you have to be aware and in full control of every brushstroke!
Black is not prohibited in the "real" work, especially for final adjustments and clean ups, but if you master the pure white flow your understanding of values and volumes, paint and painting in general will massively improve in no time!
Enjoy!