10-14-2018, 04:13 AM
Hey,
I think the overall drawings is good. its dark and gloomy , well done.
For painting, I find the color a bit muddy because of the choice of your dark background . Since the background is completly dark there is very little reflected light. also its seems to me that you don't shift colour temperature between hightlight, midtone , shadow and dark accents. If you re not familiar with these subjects, you could find a great read in James gurney Color and light and Richards Schmidt Alla prima.
What I find very cool in your painting is that you keep most of edge softs, but if you want to go for a more painterly style (like Richards Schmidt maybe, or Sargent) you need to keep some harder edge. You could try studying the sargent look and define each plane of light with a brushstroke and the corresponding different hue. Its hard to do but its has some impact.
I see you do mostly portrait, you could try framing the whole bust, its could help for expressivity.I think that if you do a composition with only the head you don't want the head hanging in the middle of the canva, you want to feel as if the character was taken out of an action, he is doing something, maybe surprised, looking at you or away, focused or dizzy.
I think the overall drawings is good. its dark and gloomy , well done.
For painting, I find the color a bit muddy because of the choice of your dark background . Since the background is completly dark there is very little reflected light. also its seems to me that you don't shift colour temperature between hightlight, midtone , shadow and dark accents. If you re not familiar with these subjects, you could find a great read in James gurney Color and light and Richards Schmidt Alla prima.
What I find very cool in your painting is that you keep most of edge softs, but if you want to go for a more painterly style (like Richards Schmidt maybe, or Sargent) you need to keep some harder edge. You could try studying the sargent look and define each plane of light with a brushstroke and the corresponding different hue. Its hard to do but its has some impact.
I see you do mostly portrait, you could try framing the whole bust, its could help for expressivity.I think that if you do a composition with only the head you don't want the head hanging in the middle of the canva, you want to feel as if the character was taken out of an action, he is doing something, maybe surprised, looking at you or away, focused or dizzy.