I'm going to paint this with acrylics. I want badly to capture the beautifully strong highlights on his skin. And looking at it after posting it I see his jar isn't long enough.
Maasai and the President of Liberia
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david how do you paint with acrylics?
do you just paint chromatically with the color as is..
or do you spice it up
do you like to layer thinly with color and work on up?I love your lines.. it feels like you never let off the paper with your pencil once... as if you drew this drawing in one fell swoop
I enjoy your portraiture, you have a strong sense of what you know you can do.. and what you want to do..
you are a true artist my friend
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I haven't really worked that much with acrylics, but when I have worked with them I've tended to work in layers if for nothing more than to have a better surface to work on. I think laying down the right base colors does really show through quite a bit in the finished work, but I don't yet have a solid grasp on what colors and combinations net the best results. Thanks for the kind words, sir.
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This is looking worse than the pencil drawing, but it's a long way from being done.
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The major thing about the transition from pencil to paint, is that you're going to lose those contours (obviously). The good thing about paint though, is that you can add on to it infinitely until you're satisfied. This right now is very early in the piece, and could go very far from here into something special and great and magical and what have you, ,and live up to the lines you put down initially.
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there seems to be a bit of compression from the nose to the chin
mark making is ace however, this is a good foundation to push
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I made this before your comment, Retronym, but I hope it addresses what you're talking about.
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yes yes better
now the nose seems a little on the equilateral triangle side when its more of an isosceles
i love how you're molding it
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Realized his right eye was too low. So, as painful as it was, I covered it up for the moment. I hate erasing work, but it's for the best. I hope...
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I think the ear is more rounded in the reference, and I think you have his head less tilted back than it is in the reference. Forehead seems to come out too far, mouth seems too relaxed.
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ah I love the colors.. the background does such justice to the warm colors..
and oh my you completely nailed the highlight on the forehead like you wanted to!
I dig the hair too.. it really looks nappy man
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Small update, but I'm just chugging along at the moment. I plan on fiddling with his chin and jaw to make his head more angled like in the reference, but haven't yet. His eye isn't really in the right spot, but if it hasn't been noticed, I'm not especially concerned about the likeness.
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i like how youre working the tones together, it looks good, i think the highlights could use some more intense white tho, the highlights right now look a little murky
maybe work some of that blue in to the tip of the nose, id also maybe tone down the saturation of the blue but its already down and looks p good
i see what youre saying about the eye but id say that its his left eye that is throwing it off the most (it's height? idk)
q- are you scanning these??
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Yeah, I'm scanning.
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Wow. Thats all I can say. Amazing, David.
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Keep it coming, brother bear.
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This is coming along very nicely. One thing I just noticed, which I absolutely love, is the subtle use of blues to highlight on his face. Brilliant.
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Great start.
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RESURRECTION! I started painting over this digitally. That's pretty apparent, but if I keep going I plan on texturing it up to make it look more traditional.
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I like painting over old paintings.
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man, i love this stuff david. i really can't wait to see you carry that style across the whole piece in maasai, it looks great.
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