Remember that portrait I ended up making look like Michael Jackson?
This one..
Yea here’s the whole story.
So my portraits are mostly instinctive. I don’t use reference images and just do my thing.
This time I thought maybe if I trace from an image I would save me the time of drawing the image and chances are it would look like more human.
The first mistake, using a charcoal portrait for something I intended to do in crazy colors.
Well.
I worked on it…
And worked on it…
And kept fucking it up…
Sorry…
This was the last time I saw it before giving up temporarily.
Then tonight.. since I think I’m back in that impulsive creative phase where I get after 2 am pangs of creativity and actually do something about them.. I took out the sketchbook, pastels, 2 brushed ( 1 eyeliner brush, since I haven’t used brushed in a long time)
And alcohol!!
No no I didn’t burn it.
I used rubbing alcohol for a technique called underpainting.
It’s like painting a quick wash of colors to lay big structures before adding details.
I was doing opposite here.
I used alcohol to manipulate pigment of painting already done. That brought colours to life.
In no time it started making sense.
This time I burned reference image to ashes in my head and let my own instinct develop the face.
Aaaaand.
Drumroll please…
Yessss!
I literally thought I cannot save this one.
Already loving this technique and it’s going to help me a lot in future, probably.
I wanted to do what people do.. and that never ends well with me at least when it comes to art.
So I’m just going to stick to what I do, but adding new techniques along the way.
Quite satisfied at least for now. eyebrows have a little issue but I’m too tired right now, will fix that later.
Would love to have feedback 🙂
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I like it x
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Thank you xx 🙂
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😊
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It looks amazing!
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Thank you! 😊
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At first the blue didn’t say shadow but bruise… In that I say asside from m j the first hadn’t that reaction. But seeing more flow was important to appreciate the new n m j second. There is unappology expressed yet not bravado. Just such as is I’m here. In this notion set I’ll say I am not inspired but neither am I horrified so there is reaction and thus art but I can’t say I’m Rembrandt moved. 🙂 And thus you have my reaction.
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Ok i forgot to post that middle version where i gave up. I added that now. And now i see the first one wasnt that bad maybe i should have stopped there.
I wasn’t going for Rembrandt inspired and honestly I can’t without some professional training or some miraculously endowed skills.
That’s confusing reaction, like a crazy swing and then it suddenly stops straight lol.
Thanks a lot for sharing your reaction I truely appriciate it.
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Aha! Ever-eek 😉 thing makes sense! That’s a lovely outcome! It really is! Not because you finished but because you chose a direction! That boldness!
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Thanks for appreciation 🙂 means a lot!
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Moussaka timmmme. Flits off to load a casserole dish. Weirdo selects allspice to go with tomato sauce. If you’re not observing dietary law and omnivorous, care to fuel for art? Be around an hour
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This is great
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Thank you! 😊
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You’re welcome 😉
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Would be a good book cover. Very well done!
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Thank you so much Paula 🙂
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Is it OK to say that, whilst I am mightily impressed by both of them, I actually prefer the original version? It comes across (to me) as more honest yet somehow more mysterious.
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Only if I knew how to operate a time machine and I had one, I would have preserved both.
I see the mystery element in the first one now.
It’s absolutely ok 🙂 I really appreciate your opinion. Thank you!
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Awesome
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Thanks 🙂
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The colours are gorgeous! More of this, please.
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Thank you! I will try 🙂
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It looks awesome!!
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Thanks Linda 😊
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