on the first portrait, her right side is at a different angle from the rest of her face. you shouldn't be able to see that much
love your colors btw!
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the picasso painting i love is the guitarist. i don't know how old he was at the time though.
anyway, i agree with &. really inspiring color choices man.
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ampersand: well actually the eye makes it look like more than it is. the pose was actually a bit more straight on than it looks though. Drawing error. thankyou :]
gnarf: I like the guitarist a good bit too, but I was just blown away from some of the portraits he supposedly did when he was 13. guitarist was much later.same model as earlier:
she has big eyes, but I couldn't really see how I was painting her pupil so it looks a little odd in the detail.
This one i'm really proud of the likeness I captured, while also painting her as beautiful as I see her.
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how do you get it so fluffy?
and just a general question about paintings that I'm reminded of by your work: Is any of the canvas showing through or do you make it a point to cover every square inch with paint? And how thickly is it put down?< corner of mouth looks a bit off?
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xion: haha, fluffy? might be due to the fact that before I painted I put down a mix of transparent oxide red and drying linseed oil onto the surface that makes the brush glide over the canvas and tends for softer edges unless I try to make them hard or firm. Yep there is lots of the canvas showing through. When I paint, especially alla prima, there is a huge variation in my paint thickness. some parts of this painting are almost just like washes, the face and some of the skin nearly gets rid of the canvas texture where as the eyebrow and shoulder have impasto that is about 1/8th of an inch thick.
Yep I agree about the mouth, the lips were the last thing I did, not to mention mouths are hard D: -
id say the nose and the mouth look off. The way the our left side of if transitions from a midtone to a highlight sort of makes it look broken, curved or out of perspective, which i think in turn is throwing the mouth off a bit too. lovely work on the skin and hair, you still working on it? or is it done?
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Lmnop: Hmm I don't know if I quite understand what you're saying, but I can see now that some of the light shapes on her face weren't completely correct, and that some things might have needed adjusting- but I dared not mess with it when the likeness was working. Most of these paintings are done in one sitting, so yes it's done.
In other news, I want to make a game. Heres some little doodles of trees that would inhabit the world. They might have a slightly important part in the game play, each with different wood suited for carving different weapons and items and etc... or they might just be tree's
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What medium?
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Gauche is super fun
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would you make the game with pixels or otherwise? because i am totally turned on by those trees, despite the fact that 90% of indie games don't make it past the drawing board.
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Pixels. Were you thinking sprites over hand drawn art? I don't think it'd fit with the more serious tone of the game. Yeah I know most games don't get to far but i'm going to try not to let that happen. that reminds me I need to do some animations. God I suck at animating : [
Hey weren't you working on a game? :3
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I dabble in a number of things on and off when i get whiffs of inspiration. Since it's summer, I've been hit with the lazy bug and have stopped most of my ambitious projects in place of Halo and getting drunk and such.
Anyways, I don't wanna hijack this, so I will take some time to give a more in-depth crit on the trees. The strongest by far is the top left of the second page. The twisted design makes it really unique, which is definitely not an easy task when working with something as straightforward as a tree. The other ones are nice, but they don't stand out as something you wouldn't see anywhere else. Definitely play with those unusual elements here, you can definitely pull them off.
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those are pretty, keep going..
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that last page is beautiful man. i like to see gouache done right because i really suck at using it.
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those trees are beautiful... weird, those pages i would have assumed were coloured with a computer, not gauche. really impressive steps mister.
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quark: I will definitely revisit some of those designs. Not all of them are supposed to be extremely outlandish but I do want them to be different.
zach: Thanks
gnarf: I don't know if it would technically be considered gouache. I use watercolors, and then for the highlights add white. I will be getting some actual gouache colors though, I just dont like to lose transparency in the shadows.
scott: thanksies, I've also noticed similarities between gouache painting and digital, kinda similar.
Birthday present for a friend:
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Also, Shiny Charizard owns you.
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man you make your stuff look so digital. That Charizard is such win. Other guy is cool too but if I scroll by real quick I keep seeing that long thing coming off his hip as a phallus.
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Maybe that was subliminal to off set the fact that he was rendered without said phallus?
Painting broken glass is exactly 47.2 times harder than a face.
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it looks not shiny enough? Needs more shiny. Bright highlights, as found in that nice shimmering surface in the ref.
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Yeah. It was done from life, and the camera captured light in a different way than my eye. It would have been a lot EASIER if I had just painted from the photo, but that's not the point :p Something I've personally experienced is that in direct painting, white doesn't have the same value as it does in indirect painting, I don't feel like I'm painting higher key, but most of those highlights are pure, thick white, or a with a bit of a high chroma yellow mixed in.
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ah okay. In that case well done :)
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concept art says that it's portrait and composition month
So here's me warming up for it
( the color correction I did to the photo makes it look a little bit better than the actual painting I think : p)
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That is BITCHIN', mah man.
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Yeah, fuck it, I quit. You win.
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way to go, forgotten.
how could you be so insensitive?
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It looks like you have 2 different coloured irises... Is that for realz or just the stylistic choice? Because if you don't in real life, I think it would be more powerful if both irises were the same colour, that punchy aquamarine/blue. Otherwise... you rape us all.... :(.... ;)
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inane: thanks :]
David: sorry, please try again later. We enjoy your business
Retro: I am as cold as cobalt blue
quark: haha I wish I had two different colored iris'. the challenge I had was that one is in shadow, and one is in the light, and I also had multiple light sources( mainly lit with one warm light, partially lit by 6 cool light bulbs) which may have affected the iris color. On top of that I have no delusions of being a good colorist, yet. -
Heres another from last night- don't know how I feel about it. Kind of eh
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Wow, man. Absolutely. Really inspires me to start painting again.
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