03-16-2013, 07:09 AM
man that study in post #20 came out great!!
You seem to be relying a lot on textures and custom brushes in your personal work which in itself is not a problem at all but in your case you seem to be losing the focus of showing the actual form of the subject you're painting.
you might want to try to take the textures back a little and get your focus back on form, adding textures later in the process when the whole thing already reads as a 3dimensional object in space. When you get the hang out of that you can do whatever you want, adding the textures right in the beginning if you like but for where you are now I thing structuring your process in a way that leaves the texturing part to a later stage of the painting process would benefit your paintings quite a bit.
btw. in that great portrait in post #20 you did not overload the thing with textrues (well mainly because there aren't any harsh textures in the skin) and the whole thing reads really nicely as a 3 dimensional form, which shows that you know how to actually show form but tend to kill it a little bit in your personal stuff with all the rough texturing going on.
So yea maybe take it a little easier on those textures and keep on rocking, man :)
You seem to be relying a lot on textures and custom brushes in your personal work which in itself is not a problem at all but in your case you seem to be losing the focus of showing the actual form of the subject you're painting.
you might want to try to take the textures back a little and get your focus back on form, adding textures later in the process when the whole thing already reads as a 3dimensional object in space. When you get the hang out of that you can do whatever you want, adding the textures right in the beginning if you like but for where you are now I thing structuring your process in a way that leaves the texturing part to a later stage of the painting process would benefit your paintings quite a bit.
btw. in that great portrait in post #20 you did not overload the thing with textrues (well mainly because there aren't any harsh textures in the skin) and the whole thing reads really nicely as a 3 dimensional form, which shows that you know how to actually show form but tend to kill it a little bit in your personal stuff with all the rough texturing going on.
So yea maybe take it a little easier on those textures and keep on rocking, man :)