Why does nobody talk about using grayscale to plan digital paintings?

I started my last piece in black and white before adding color. It helped me focus on values without getting distracted. Have you tried this method for your art?

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the_jana6mo ago

But don't a lot of artists use grayscale first?

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joseph_torres6mo ago

Honestly @the_jana, half my favorite painters work that way too.

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xena3946mo ago

That bit about favorite painters working that way is funny. My old art school was mostly monochrome studies for the first year, brown and gray everything. It did help, but man, I missed color.

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