Willy by face_off

2D • Portraits • posted on Jun 06, 2005

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At the risk of being laughed out of Renderosity...this photo (no postwork :-) of a recent painting I did. Proof that painting skin tones is harder than doing it in Poser! I may still touch this up a bit, to fix up the right side of his chin (which is a touch bent). Painting time was around 5hrs.

Comments (7)

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RGUS

7:23PM | Mon, 06 June 2005

I'm impressed Paul, and I thought you were a pimply faced computer geek... I see you DRAW on a lot of Poser lighting techniques in this and it works very well. Well done... quite impressed! (V)

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odf

7:34PM | Mon, 06 June 2005

Darn! I suck at portrait. The geometry of the face is a real challenge. If it was a nude, I might have finally been able to give you some advice. This is not laughable at all, unless you're a professional painter or something. ;-) Two small observations: 1) You've overdone the fake sss a bit. The colors would be great for an expressionist approach, but obviously that's not what you've been going for. 2) Painting people from photos never works. They look flat, like the photos do. Find a really, really mild-mannered person to sit for you. Better yet, form a study-group. Start with pencil or charcoal, proceed to color pencils or crayons (preferrably the oily, not the chalky, kind), then, finally, acrylic or watercolors.

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Fatale

8:45PM | Mon, 06 June 2005

lower saturation would make this look better, i think? i find studying photos help :) even until now i draw rather flat-looking people if i try to go for realism