First very good, You have a very formal way of drawing and there's nothing with that! On this work you show great shading and good use of light in the eye but the head seems dis-jointed or on it's own. I would If I was asking you to draw a piece for me to do more background for sometimes the look to leave the confines of a certain size to be original. I don't mean that you copy, but the style to draw a piece to show just say the look in an eye or a mouth open in pain or pleasure. A shaded area for background, why to make one side lighter by having a dark background and the other side darker by having a lighter background. Nothing wrong with your skills or likeness, just the way you look at it. OK, that's perhaps me and my style but to formal a look makes your work predicable good but not great, excellent but not wonderful.
Hi there. I always welcome feedback and accept that everyone sees different things in the same work. I can understand what you say and I have learned a lot already from some tutorials and comments on here. At the moment I try to master shading on the face where as I used to leave it white. I am trying to make this part of my portraits work first. I will try backgrounds soon too. Can you tell me what you think of my Geoffrey Rush? That is my favourite work and I strive to make more like this. I will think about backgrounds and see how that works.Thanks for your comments.
Like ALL of your work it is very good, my point is nothing whatever to do with the subjects you draw, they are drawn to a excellent level of likeness. Its the feel of the work, at the moment I'm painting Robert Patterson and Kirsten Stewart they are both very good likeness, but I want the painting to look back at me. I paint very large to make the face, which takes up all the work do the background work, all I am saying to you is to be less formulaic or prescribed with your work, sometimes very large something say just a side, make it a glimpse. I have followed on one rule in my work that is they say the eyes should be the centre of work. OK enough try this if you can get one of your works scanned to the right size then scan Geoffrey in larger and make the faces very big so no work just bigger see the reaction of others. I would not say this unless I thought you ere very talented. Be carefree try of looks and other ways of doing things, look at other artist copy there style, see if parts of their style are good or bad, the settle in to your own
I try to make the eyes my focal point too and try to create the feeling of the face through them if that makes sense. I enjoy sketching the eyes the most.I also like to try to get expression and feeling in the face. I don't have a scanner as yet but maybe will invest. I think I will look at backgrounds more too as you sugested. Thanks
I have just one thing to say and thats about presentation. Background will help by making the lightness of the forground, say the eyes or shines brighter, becuse your eye sees them as brighter, even though they are not. It's the same as red, orange, shows up at night brighter, than in the day, think of it for a bit. By the way you are a very good drawer my suggestions are from afar and I like to show thing from example in my work latley I have been painting light, on faces, on hair I have just finished an Audrey Hepburn painting when it comes on look at the left side and how the plain white and slightly pink looks compared with the riht hand sidewere the dark is made darker buy the light side.
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