Observed arrival · 2026-10-29
Stills Study, for seeing a portrait in paintable shapes
A browser-based art-learning studio that turns a portrait photo into value and color studies, then lets you practice painting and compare your result.
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- For
- People learning to draw or paint from reference photos
- Worth noticing
- Working-size choices are 600, 900, or 1,400 pixels; edge-aware smoothing can preserve sharp photo boundaries.
Field notes
The study controls let users adjust value splits, color counts, smoothing, and whether small shapes are merged. Palette tools include suggested mixes, custom paint choices, and hex-code copying. For comparison, the page describes aligning a painting photo with the reference and overlaying the reference; it also offers a Studio canvas as an alternative input.
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