03-28-2018, 01:19 AM
(03-27-2018, 11:19 PM)Fedodika Wrote: the face perspective isn't too off, the lips are a little off symmetry and the eye is a little skewed but that's not the biggest isue.
I think you should try a grey scale painting for oils next time because it seems your values aren't clear, and maybe youre not calculating well with the value placement, hence why everything looks splotchy and rough, when most females (the ideal rather) have very smooth skin. so ya thats my reccomendation is to do values only and see how smooth you can get the skin texture and how intelligently you can place values and edges ;)
I have one more session with this model and I'll try to do a quick black and white guache study next time (not sure if I'll be able to tho). I think the face doesn't look smooth because my brushwork is very bad, I don't know how to use medium properly so all my strokes are very dry, another thing is I bought the wrong canvas size (too small) and its very hard to paint the face in general . Since the model is dressed in all dark blue tones and the studio lighting doesn't allow for much bounce light she ended up with these super dark shadows on her face and I'm not good enough to account for that T.T just wanted to get some interesting colors going and her face wasn't that much of a focus. Portraits in general aren't very interesting for me
I'll see what I can do next monday, maybe a little fan brush to smooth the blobs of color on her face