I don’t know where to begin, the background story behind this one is size of infinite jest!
And I’m tired, as always.
So.
I took this picture of my living room few days back and loved the color theme going on here.
After that I googled portraits for reference and found one.
Now here’s a pro tip of tracing outline of a portrait.
Take your paper and stick it on your screen. Turn the brightness to maximum, grab a pencil and switch off the lights.
Every detail will be clear as day.
That’s how I drew outline.
And the rest just happens.
You block everything else and let your heart lead your hands.
And this is final (almost) result.
Fixed first layer of it by spraying alcohol, the trick works great with soft pastels!
I might add few more highlights and little bit of details. Won’t be doing too much on it as I don’t want to kill subtlety of this work.
As always, would love to hear your feedback, it will help me improve.
Thanks 🙂
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That is lovely x
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You are an amazing artist! This is so beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing something beautiful in this very, very negative world. Life can be beautiful. Blessings to you, always.
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aw. You are amazing! Thank you so much for always encouraging me.
And yes world is so negative, i just try to survive and still have a positive energy (which is hard)
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You’re so welcome. Being positive is something that is necessary, especially in a world that harps on the negative. I don’t even watch the news anymore. I prefer surrounding myself with positive things. Have a blessed week.
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i don’t watch news either. I just quickscan headlines and that’s it.
For me being positive and surrounding myself with positivity is a war. I have to consciously fight for it.
Have a blessed day 🙂
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Wow you did great. Is this a pic of you?
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thank you!
and no, It’s a stock photo.
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This is great. I always very much appreciate this simple method of composure for a nice abstractish piece that can be viewed for a lifetime! Thank you for sharing this.
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My pleasure.
And thank you for appriciating, mean’s a lot to me. I kinda needed it 🙂
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Cool. I like the subtle quality as well. I hadn’t thought about using my screen like that in a long time. Great view.
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You should try it. I might do it again soon, it helps a lot
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I usually use graphite, Stabilo, transfer paper or the like on the back of a printed image to transfer. Light always helps, though.
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i didn’t trace before now. because i do portraits and they always look a bit off if a slightest line goes wrong. With light it get a lot easier. Only problem is size now. it cant be bigger than my laptop screen.
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Actually, it can. Imagine your image at a size that can broken into four equal pieces. I don’t know if you have software that can manage that, but break it into 4 separate pieces or as many as you like and trace them a section at a time. Keep making art and writing. Phil
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I also have tried the technique of tracing on the computer screen with paper. It’s not easy, but it can work.
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yea it works well especailly if you are using A4 size paper. thanks for stopping by 🙂
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