michael doig sketch thread

[JakeB]

Not got a whole lot of critique, you've got some really nice work in here man.

Actually, with the portrait, you could get away with a bit more variation in your skin tones. Atm, it's all kinda peachy, which is fair enough, and what we'd expect I guess, but in the best portrait work you'll often see blues, greens, purples, reds. If you can pull it off (I really struggle with it lol) it can push a portrait to the next level.

Also, when thinking about skin tones, it sometimes helps to keep the colour bands of the face in mind. I think the forehead tends to be more yellow, the nose red, and the chin blue. Gurney talks about it in Colour and Light, if you've got that. And he runs through it really well on his blog here.
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2008...-face.html
It's a subtle thing, but can make all the difference.

Couple of examples of cool skin tones as well, seeing as how I've already written out a little essay haha.
Bougereau Portrait, this ones pretty subtle, but you can see some variation.
http://uploads0.wikipaintings.org/images...t-1890.jpg

And this is my go to example. Portrait of Steve Jobs by Jason Seiler
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M2qbJwc582Q/Tp...seiler.jpg

I think the greens and stuff just make it a bit more interesting and, I dunno, textured?

Anyway, sorry if I've rambled, hope this helps. If not hope it's at least something to think about ;).

Keep it coming man, really cool stuff so far. :)