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Some fantastic progress so far, your definitely doing a lot better with your gesture drawings and anatomy than me. And you have a great approach to studying. As for the last couple of paintings of the kids, they're both fantastic. I especially like the rendering of the hair. I always struggle with hair, I've tried breaking it down into blocks of colour rather than individual strands, but I really seem to struggle with it.
Anyway, keep up the fantastic work
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Thanks everyone for the comments! It's so encouraging. I believe I replied in your sketchbooks.
Some of the work for the "In yo face" portrait class. (Assignment 4)
Lineart of several very different people (which included open expressive mouths)
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Full studies of three portraits given I normally work in black and white, then color. For all three I painted straight in color, no color picking, for the first time ever. I made piles of mistakes, fixed them as best as I could, and yay--new painting hurdle crossed!
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Quick portrait from the mind using colors from one of full studies (yeah, I need to learn how faces are built--hence the class!)
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Oh. Those children you painted are fantastic - I love the mood and lighting of the little boy so much (in the bottom, warmer version)! You're _good_.
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I'm blown away by your portraits, love the one with the kid playing with blocks.
I actually prefer the first one as some of the edges are somewhat lost with warm temperature laid on top. but thats just nit picking.
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Nice stuff Tygerson!
You did a great job on the portraits of the kids. I like the second one a lot. You captured a nice angle of the head that I find hard to do. I do think the background could use a little bit more refinement, but that's just me. It obviously shouldn't take away too much from the focus!
Keep kicking butt!
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not sure about the brush stroke effect.Maybe Choose something else and look at the result you may like it. That just a tips nothing personal against anything.
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Thank you all so very much!
Here is assignment 5 from "In yo face" by Suzanne Helmigh, drawing emotions from imagination. I started with a generic face so as not to start over constructing the head each time and lose momentum. Then I tried a new face for each, hopefully tilting it to match the emotion.
The fussier I got, the more the emotion drained out, so I left them messy. It is impossible to do this without making those expressions!
Also, I've been observing expressions. Little kids are great for this--they don't tone down their expressions the way grownups do. My two year old seems to mostly show contentment/joy, and very frequently shows surprise. Surprise is brief, then is followed by joy, or anger/annoyance, or sadness.
My five year olds is content, but not often surprised. Sometimes shows frustration/anger, or sadness.
One expression seems to be missing. Neither child ever seems to show contempt. Is this an expression we learn later? Like as a preteen?
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My mom's dog, Holmes. A fun break from drawing people. I'm starting to like working straight in color, rather than coloring a grayscale painting.
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Your still life color skills are sky-rocketing. Keep it up!
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It's been a while since I've popped over here and...
holy balls, Tygerson! My jaw is still hanging! You're a beast!
Your studies are killer!!
Awwwwh and that would have to be the cutest dog I've ever seen ^ ^' he's like a fox!
Keep up the great work :D :D
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Hi Tygerson. That dog portrait is great. I like the way you darkened the background behind the head and upper body; it's really made the image pop and created a lot more atmosphere. The end result is a better image than the original photo.
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I was looking at a load of awesome portraits, and then you go and paint an incredible dog too! wow, love your work :D
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Loving your sketchbook! fantabulous gesture work! and your portraits omg so good! :) keep it going!
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Assignment 6 of "In yo face," all emotions again, spending a day on each.
I was happiest with fear, and least thrilled with "joy." (Go figure.) I sure don't know how to construct a face, but did my best without ref. It helped to do a handful of sketches of each emotion with reference first, before going without.
They are fear, surprise, contempt, sadness, disgust (that vomity one), anger, and joy.
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Lovely painting of that dog, and again your colours are just beautiful!
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Nice heads! Really like how varied your color schemes are. Old animators would keep a mirror by their desk so they could make faces and then draw them onto the characters, if you want some more reference for emotions that would be a big help.
Cool stuff, good luck with In Yo face!
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that dog is study is great, great colors and light.
Also, its good to see you practicing from imagination, its been eyes since my last visit, i can see improvement, i hope you update this thing soon!
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Post # 49 looks awesome.
I need to start drawing my dog :)
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Your studies are nice, you might want to keep an eye on an image of the eye-nose-mouth proportions while doing them, plus the eye area sometimes needs a bit more polish IMO.. Keep it up! :)
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