These paintings were a wild ride. I'm really proud of how the pastel dude turned out. I'm a little less enthusiastic about how the lady turned out with the oils. I think if I would have approached it with a different expectation for how it was going to turn out, it might have naturally developed it's own vibe.
In the first image of the gif, I did a super rough sketch. My third really established a stronger sense of weight. The fourth established some blocks of color to build off of. The fifth built up into more established colors and texture and the sixth was the final draft.
I love the unique theme of these. In the places where warm and cool shadows sit together on their skin, like on the man's forehead and the woman's arm, that is absolutely gorgeous! I almost wish there was more focus on your beautiful coloring, without as much of the bold linework in the final pieces.
ReplyDeleteI really like the scales/markings on the snakes as well as the color scheme for both portraits. Really neat! Like Trina said, just as a suggestion, it'd be cool to see this pictures again without the linework to really see your painting and color mixing.
ReplyDeleteI know you said you don't like how the woman turned out, but I think these portraits make a killer pair! I really like how unified they look, despite being completely different mediums. I feel like some more highlights in the lady to add more contrast would really help amp up that portrait as well.
ReplyDeleteI like the halos you placed around them, and I agree your "Mandusa" turned out better, although I think the skin of the snakes in the lady portrait is better. I like that I can still see your comic style in these paintings. I also really like your color choice. That orange and black background mixed with the earthy skin tones and green of the snakes is perfect.
ReplyDeleteTheres a really....oil painting portrait style? that comes through here that reminds me of like...gothic portrait oil paintings from an artist whos name is escaping me right now, but you also added a more comic feeling into it with the chunkier method of value that you used that makes it really interesting.
ReplyDeleteoh my god that was the worst run on sentence ever x__x
I really enjoy the themes within your piece! I liked how you were able to to portray the male and female medusa and the textures you were able to implement. The halos that you added were a very nice touch and your choice of color for both of them are spot on!
ReplyDeleteThese are really fun characters -super interesting to see them as a team! One thing I like is how you are using the black on the face of the man -- it feels like since you've integrated some darker shadows around his cheek bones that his beard feels like it's transitioned into the picture well. The lady might need some kind of shadow transition to make her face turn the same way. I think those planes and the colors in the planes in the guy's face help a lot. The black linework on the snakes is pretty heavy, which makes it a little hard to see where their forms turn, so maybe there's a way to carve out a bit more color in those areas so they don't get too dark. I think it's mostly in areas that are also surrounded by black. These are a really nice style and I think that the colorblocking in the guy is really successful! Maybe bring more of that into the woman!
ReplyDeleteYour style always emanates through any medium you work with, which is super respectable. I love how chiseled the dude's face is, and the texture you've used for both of the halos. I feel like the woman's face flattens out a bit for me, mainly in the eye and the nose, but I'm not sure of the best way to fix that.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure why you're displeased with your second portrait- I think they both turned out quite nice and compliment each other very well. In the human figures themselves there are a lot of hard, flat edges that give it a chiseled look that looks quite nice- especially when juxtaposed by the significantly more organic, muddled serpents. I would almost say I wasn't seeing the elements of Painter and the tools were it not for the serpents, and these guys go a long way. You can see a lot of the material that went into them and it really adds a great finishing touch to the pieces.
ReplyDeletewell these are designed really well, and i love the the modeling on the firt one those hard blocks of color break up the plains on his face in a really interesting way.
ReplyDeleteas the the one with oil you always go back in and with a impasto or maybe a wet brush and bring back some edges you lost everything doesn't blur together.