Value Study: artist assistant 4+
Analyze light and shadow
Diem Limited
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
In art, a value (or tone) is how light or dark a colour is. If you're learning to paint or draw, doing value studies is an excellent place to start. These small, loose sketches in greyscale show where shadows fall and highlights appear. These are particularly useful when the subject is more complicated and it's hard to see through the colours to show the subtle shadows.
Value Study is a paid app with a very low priced yearly fee or a lifetime purchase available to access all features. There are some free images from Unsplash available to preview the app before purchase.
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If you're learning to paint or draw, value studies are a surefire way to improve both your artwork and how you visualise references in your mind. People often use photo editors to convert a colour photo to black and white... this is helpful, but this app goes further.
By using Value Study, you can flick between levels of detail. Maybe you want to start with just black and white to get a base down, then add in extra values one by one to build up your understanding of the reference you are studying.
You can even take it a step further and select all areas with matching tones. Click one of the values along the bottom in the greyscale palette to see all areas that match it in the image, so you can focus on one value while painting it. For example, in a portrait, this could mean seeing how different parts of the body have the same amount of shadow despite potentially looking wildly different when viewed in colour.
Value Study is a tool, not to replace your value studies but to enhance them and significantly help beginner artists know where to start when looking at complicated reference imagery.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s New
Version 3.6.1
Okay so Value Study is becoming a powerful tool now isn't it... it's time for the Information page. This is a simple but critical page that will hopefully help people new to Value Study to know where to start, and give the rest of you a reminder of where everything is. As always please reach out if there's any particular questions or guidance I can help with shane@valuestudy.app.
Ratings and Reviews
Diem Ltd = Committed and Perseveres. Try it, Buy it.
I may be like you, I am a very discriminating app downloader. Initially, I used this app to - try, and moved forward through iOS devices only, to
purchasing lifetime, to
sharing it as my drawing friends must try, and
through multiple quick helpful chats with the creator, to
use now - on my OS mac desktop.
Shane is the best and each version is a blessing. My favorite new feature is Simplify Shapes.
Try it. Preview before purchase.
Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps
Developer Response ,
Ah that’s so kind, thank you! The macOS has been a tricky one but think the initial teething issues are solved now thankfully.
Great tool!
The vlaue study app is simple to use and has allowed me to simplify my subject mater ina. few clicks.
Developer Response ,
So glad to hear that, thank you for reviewing and using Value Study!
Wonderful app and major improvements!!!
I wrote a review last year but I wanted to write another quick one. Once again I’ve used this app for art projects and it has saved my life. Completely!! I don’t have to go through in PS and manually add in the pixelations. Also thank you for confusing to improve every month! Thank you as well for updating the pixelation feature! This will further help a lot for me in my art journey and especially value studying, defining value edges is still very difficult.
Abt the app: Sometimes when I would go in to edit some of my high detailed images it would definitely work, but it wouldn’t be as crisp when the separation was added as I imagined it might be. So want I to thank you for improving that! Once again love this app and I’ll continue to be using it!!! ❤️😉
Developer Response ,
Thank you so much! This is the first review and I’m so grateful that you liked it enough to write it. I was in the same position as you, finding techniques useful but a hassle... I’m really glad the app worked in a way that helped you.
I think you’re right that it would be really useful on iPad as it could work well alongside the drawing apps that people already use. So thanks for the request, will definitely look into it for a future update.
Update: Value Study is now supported on iPad 😀
Update 5th Feb 2022: Thank you so much for your updated review… it means the world to me that you’re still using it and appreciating the updates I’ve made!
In the new settings menu there is a link to send an email, free feel to email with any problems or improvement ideas you have 🙂
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Information
- Seller
- Diem Limited
- Size
- 11.5 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.6 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.6 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.5 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020 Diem Ltd
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Value Study Pro (Lifetime) $5.99
- Value Study Pro $1.99
- Appreciation $2.99
- Amazing supporter $24.99
- Generous boost $9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.