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>>3053634
Pretty much. Wether you paint digitally or traditionally, you won't go far without understanding values.
I'd say: values -> color -> composition

Of course you also need drawing skills. A painting is just as good as its underlying structure.

>>3053634
yeh. also excluding colours allows you to learn a new tool easier because you have less to focus on

Is composition basically just intuitive? You see all this golden mean shit and rule of thirds bs that has so many exceptions that its not even a rule, and then they arbitrarily paste the template on top of pictures where it barely works. Is composition really just acquired taste?

>>3053634
Yes but you can't figure it all out from greyscale paintings

>>3054927

Composition is pretty much a spook and those arbitrary rules don't mean anything

If you're making industrial illustrations there's something to be said about readability, but that's about it

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>>3054927
Sort of. There are a lot of concepts and such like the importance of contrast, color theory, the rule of thirds, and the psychology of line all to help you better understand how humans react to designs. The end the goal of studying it all though is to make the knowledge instinctive to the designer if it wasn't already.

>>3054927
grid based stuff about composition is bullshit, the important stuff is controlling tangents(watch sinix's videos), using different types of contrast to lead the eye to the important parts of the picture and using size and position of your elements to tell the pictures story(read framed ink)

>>3054927
Composition is mostly a bunch of crap. It provides an aesthetic foundation of sorts, but it's not as important as people make it out to be.

>>3053641
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>>3054986
>all these wrong answers
anime fags

>>3053641
I disagree. It's more values -> composition -> colour.

Values and composition made the image interesting but an image with good values, good colour and bad composition can look dull and boring.

>>3055331
Why don't you say what's wrong about this advice rather than just calling names? You're literally contributing nothing to the thread.

>>3054965
avoiding tangents is part of composition, faggot.