Coinhero's sketchbook

[Coinhero]

study of a painting by Joaquin Sorolla called Itallian Girl with Flowers that I really like. This is my second time doing a study of this painting but this time I painted it instead of just doing a ink sketch, I don't remember if I uploaded that ink drawing. I really like this painting (the original not my study), I keep coming back to it, there's a lot that can be learned from it. I wanted to copy it because the values are much closer to what I want to achieve and I can't paint faces from the side. Face looks more like a boy that a girl and I couldn't capture the expression and now looking at it with fresh eyes the neck is pretty messed up too.



I'm treating this image as more of an experiment type of thing. I'll probably add butterfly and caterpillar going towards the mushroom like its attracting them or something like that.'
I wanted to re paint the fast from that one image with the red dude but ran out of steam, coming home from lectures and trying to be productive afterwards is hard, I can only imagine how difficult it is for people that have a full time job to do art after work.