Shape Study

Start with a reference photo

Drop a photo here, paste one, or open a file. Everything happens on your device.

Open photo

Working…

Colors & layers

Number of colors

Number of layers

Colors are grouped into this many painting steps, e.g. 10 colors in 4 layers.

Mode

Value steps

Even steps give a clean value scale, like a notan.

Shapes

Shape style

Angularity

Smallest shape

Higher merges more specks into bigger masses.

Tidy edges

Squint first

Squint amount

Working size

Layers

Painting order

Overlap

Final details step

View

Show

Step view

Outlines Color numbers

Grid

Save

PNG saves the current view. SVG keeps every step as its own layer group, so you can open it in Illustrator, Affinity or Procreate.