Sorry, I totally didn't do as many saves as I should have. But I picked this up pretty easily, considering how much i've struggled with other programs in this class, Painter is definitely my favorite program of everything we covered.
The first portrait I did was of Rose Mcgowan, and the second was of Wendy Torrence(Shelley Duvall) from the Shining. I really loved both mediums we used, but I think painting with the wet media came more naturally to me, probably because this semester I have been painting with traditional oils so it felt pretty familiar.
i love these. i think they turned out so good. i like the second one a little bit more though because it seems a bit more refined. i think the right arm on the first one needs to be smoothed out a bit because it gets a little weird texture wise
ReplyDeleteBoth of these turned out really nicely and they're also pretty cohesive in color palettes. I like that you made an actual background compared to most of the portraits people made in our class. I think your painting of Wendy is more appealing, mostly because of the composition, but also because of how you rendered her shirt.
ReplyDeleteI can definitely see that you really liked painter from how well these turned out! I enjoy how iconic your subjects were and I feel like like you accurately depicted them! Although I like both my favorite one has to be the wet media one. I like the depth that the mediums you used to create this piece and the subtle textures that they make as well.
ReplyDeleteWith both of these pieces you can totally see your intro painting class skills coming through which is super awesome, everything looks really well done.
ReplyDeleteBoth pieces have a really painterly quality to them. A really critical thing I want to say about your rose mcogwan piece is that her left arm has a really defined brush texture to it that takes away from the right shoulder because theyre so different. But other than that, these are awesome!
Like Anne said, I think you've really improved in just a few short months. Watching you paint these, you had a lot of confidence with where you were applying color and how you were applying it. The one of Wendy is awesome, you have some great painterly textures in the sweater and I love how you chose to keep the hair a flat black.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I love about the rose mcgowan piece is that you really do a great job showing the translucent quality of the fabric on her shoulder -- and showing her skin tone through it. It looks like really light, airy fabric and it's a great technique! I think that the fact that you can see a bit of her skin tone through the shirt makes the fabric really rich looking. I think you could experiment bringing some of the other environmental colors into some of the figure's local colors. For example, you know how sometimes if you're standing next to something really bright, the color of that thing bounces off and is reflected on your skin? I think you could bring some of the pink of the background into her skin in some places where she's really close to the wall.. same thing with Shelly -- if you bring a bit of the background color into the figure -- just letting it sort of reflect off the fabric, I think that'd make the fabric look a bit more rich! There's a trick where you can use overlay, or even "color" -- with a very low opacity -- and it sort of tints the layers underneath it with a slight color. You could try that and see if it helps unify the color a bit more! It'd be subtle, but a really nice addition! Great job on these.
ReplyDeleteLol that expression is super good. On both of them actually! Definitely like the way you're using color and finding the different undertones. One suggestion I might make is with the Rose Mcgowan piece. The background is not as separate as it could be. Maybe mixing in some cooler tones around the figure would bring her forward and the bricks back a little bit more. Especially around the left arm that's touching her face and the back of her dress. Then the right shoulder would come forward a little bit more because it's much lighter and warmer.
ReplyDeleteThese are both strong but that second one looks like a really painting dude! So goooooooood! Also the level of emotion is A+. The only thing I'd adjust is a bit more texture on that lamp to give it a bit more differentiation than just a shape, but this is solid.
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