Your weekly dose of fine art
Feb. 2nd, 2012 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_deep_magicI'm much happier with my work this week. In fact, it might be the best portrait I've done yet.
I got the proportions right! Or a close approximation. I still need to work on my medium tones, since the shadows weren't really that dark and her skin wasn't really that light. The contrast is even more noticeable in the actual picture, rather than the photo. And I wish I'd had time to add some depth to the hair, but this was really the first model who had loose-hanging hair, so I don't think I did too bad (even though I sort of just scribbled in her ponytail at the last minute).
The teacher is always getting on my case (in his totally laid-back way) for moving on to the details too soon and not paying enough attention to the shadows and the light, or some damn thing. He mentioned highlights in the hair around her face, which kind of seemed like a detail to me. And he does not like the way I draw eyeballs, or that I draw eyeballs at all. "You don't draw eyes and nostrils and ears -- you draw shadow shapes against the light. It's not features, it's tone against tone." Okay, fine, it's not my best work, but after a while she needs a frickin' eyeball. That is my totally pedestrian take on art: eyeballs are necessary. And that ear is glorious; I don't give a fuck what anyone says.
I got the proportions right! Or a close approximation. I still need to work on my medium tones, since the shadows weren't really that dark and her skin wasn't really that light. The contrast is even more noticeable in the actual picture, rather than the photo. And I wish I'd had time to add some depth to the hair, but this was really the first model who had loose-hanging hair, so I don't think I did too bad (even though I sort of just scribbled in her ponytail at the last minute).
The teacher is always getting on my case (in his totally laid-back way) for moving on to the details too soon and not paying enough attention to the shadows and the light, or some damn thing. He mentioned highlights in the hair around her face, which kind of seemed like a detail to me. And he does not like the way I draw eyeballs, or that I draw eyeballs at all. "You don't draw eyes and nostrils and ears -- you draw shadow shapes against the light. It's not features, it's tone against tone." Okay, fine, it's not my best work, but after a while she needs a frickin' eyeball. That is my totally pedestrian take on art: eyeballs are necessary. And that ear is glorious; I don't give a fuck what anyone says.
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Date: 2012-02-04 04:51 pm (UTC)(.... meaning, i really like that portrait)
also, YOU LISTEN TO ZZ TOP. YOU ROCK.
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Date: 2012-02-06 01:53 am (UTC)