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JoshTheStampede
Sep 8, 2004

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ThePlague-Daemon posted:

I've been working on a commission for a friend of mine.



Someday I'll figure out how to do backgrounds properly

Background looks pretty good to me. Can you talk a little about your process? I love the style of this piece. The guys pose gives me less-weird Aeon Flux vibes.

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JoshTheStampede
Sep 8, 2004

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Keret posted:

Hey art goons, I started drawing again after a pretty long art drought, so I decided to try out a portrait to get the gears turning again. This is graphite and CarbOthello black pastel, on ye olde printer paper. I'm pretty sure I hosed up the eye placement, but aside from that, any thoughts/suggestions?

Also, trying to get a cell phone picture to reflect the value range of the actual page is a huge pain in the rear end.

04.19.2018 | Graphite + CarbOthello Pastel on Printer Paper by Kris Nicholson, on Flickr

I think the placement of the eyes is ok in terms of height, but they are just a little too small and a little too far apart.

Apart from that, I would just say to lighten the front part of the hat a bit, so the form has the same lighting/shadow pattern as the face. Especially given that the shadow on his left side is really interesting.

Fake Edit: I mean like actually interesting and well done, not like "hmmm...interesting" in a bad way.

JoshTheStampede
Sep 8, 2004

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MTV Crib Death posted:

Bargue plates seem to be helping with accuracy.



Thanks to whoever it was that mentioned J.C. Leyendecker. I borrowed a huge book of his prints from the library and I want to draw them all.

What up, "Taking Ryan Nimtz' Portrait Class" buddy.

JoshTheStampede fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Apr 22, 2018

JoshTheStampede
Sep 8, 2004

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MTV Crib Death posted:

I don't know who that is but I understand why he would use this photo reference. She's stunning.


Oh, heh. He's a Udemy instructor and his portrait class uses that exact photo for the black & white study.

JoshTheStampede
Sep 8, 2004

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Subject aside, I love this style of portraiture. Do you start from a pencil sketch or just go for it?

JoshTheStampede
Sep 8, 2004

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Identity erasure and objectification of models is definitely a good conversation to have regarding actual production of art, but applying that standard to every piece of study and instructional work is strange.

If you have to fully render a face every time you want to do a gesture study you’re not gonna do many gesture studies.

JoshTheStampede
Sep 8, 2004

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This is what I worked on this week while I was out of town for a death in the family.

JoshTheStampede fucked around with this message at 22:25 on May 20, 2018

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JoshTheStampede
Sep 8, 2004

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Did you sketch this out first or just go for it? It looks great.

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