Inspiration gone wrong

Remember what we talked about in my last post?

This new guy and his energy and all… read that post if you can’t remember.

So I was feeling a bit too inspired by his energy and felt like making some art.

Watched a Zin Lim tutorial on youtube, but didn’t really follow it, as always.

Now this is what happened…

I started with our basic mark-making.

Then, little bit working to give it a face

Then a bit more…

Then highlights. This is where I thought we are good. I should stop.

But then some invisible voice told me “Don’t you think highlights are too sharp?”

So I went on to smear sepia all over her face and blend it. The result reminded me of my school days. Add a bit more purple and this is what I looked like in school.

It was odd

Then my eyes just randomly spotted ochre. OCHRE was the colour I was meant to use! Ochre blends skin tones! I hate myself

So I went in with ochre colouring whole face with it.

now…

I didn’t like what I was looking at. So I added highlights again.

Then I thought maybe if I add a bright colour somewhere it will distract from the flaws.

So I did this…

All of this took place last night. 

I woke up today and realized something is majorly wrong here. The PROFILE!!!. 

I opened the reference image and it hit me like a pebble on the head… if I looked at the reference picture before none of this would have happened.

I did a little bit of damage control and this is where we will stop.

An expressionist portrait that ended up being almost a comic book portrait and almost a charcoal expressionism portrait.

so… this is what the strong vibe of that guy did…

Honestly, I don’t even feel it this strongly now. this was a disaster.

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