Value Study 4+
Your artist's assistant
Diem Limited
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
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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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.
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 3.3.0
This update has a bunch of improvements for performance. It also has a bug fix for the highly-reported bug where it wasn't possible to save an image when using the outline mode... this turned out to be related to light/dark modes which has now been fixed!
Ratings and Reviews
Tolle App
Ich bin absolut begeistert von dieser App. Sie bringt mich in der Malerei um einiges weiter.
Bezahlbar und ohne Werbung. Einfach klasse!!
Very useful for painting from life and photos
Incredibly useful for artists! I tried some similar apps for quite a while and always got back to this and finally bought it (recommended for some features I didn’t know about). I use this app for finding values and forms both from life and from photo references when painting. I don’t even have wishes for future updates.
Very helpful for drawing and painting!
It really helps! Especially when you are value-blind like me!
App Privacy
The developer, Diem Limited, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
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Diem Limited has identified itself as a trader for this app and confirmed that this product or service complies with European Union law.
- DUNS Number
- 221244196
- Address
- Unit A 82 James Carter Road Suffolk N/A IP28 7DE United Kingdom
- Phone Number
- +44 7794746595
- shane@shanehudson.net
- Size
- 5.1 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 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 0,99 €
- Value Study Pro 5,99 €
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.