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fandomsecrets2007-12-23 05:56 pm
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[ SECRET POST #352 ]
⌈ Secret Post #352 ⌋
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Re: 32
(Actually, you HAVE caught me, she's a horrid Mary Sue of epic proportions.)
And yes, I apologize for not pain stackingly studying every piece in your gallery once you said they were null as a refrence after offering them as a refrence.
And it still has a lot of the issues of the one you posted here. Like I said, not my taste. The face isn't too bad, and you have some nice light plays going on, but the epic mouse brush shaped marks on the collar pull you away from it as a piece, and look, again, very "I did this in photoshop YAY!" However, if you smoothed those out, made em more painterly and less...I don't think there's a word for marks obviously made in photoshop, it'd be nice. Your eyes looks off, to shallow in the face I think, though I'd have to see the original to put my finger on what it is excatly...they just don't have the depth you have in the rest, and even if the dip in the nose is in actuality there, I'd take it out for the sake of the picture. But like I said the shadows are very nice, and it is obviously him.
However, taking a picture straight from a specific frame, which I take is what you did, is generally considered bad from, because then you're encroaching on the artistic domain of the photographer if you don't switch it up enough. A lot of fan artist don't seem to know, or respect that (Obviously as this is just a fun fluff piece not like...serious business, it's not a BFD) And IDK the original picture, so I don't know how much you changed things up.
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and even if the dip in the nose is in actuality there, I'd take it out for the sake of the picture.
... not that i took you seriously before, but now?
ahaha.
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If you haven't, that'd explain a lot of your art weaknesses. Art isn't always about just replicating exactly whats in front of you. You have to make changes to work things into a 2d picture plane, to make the piece flow well and create balance and harmony. This is all shit you should have covered in basic 2-d design, art 1 type classes. Shit, it's stuff you should have covered in an advanced high school art class.
The darkness right there ruins the way your eye travels through the piece and breaks up the flow of things, especially in his face. It breaks up the nice play of shadows you have going on, and the contrasts.
But uh, please, go ahead and make replica's, keep chruning them out. Lessen any future competition.
And you may have done it that way intentionally. Doesn't stop it from looking bad. If everything in your painting is done in a realistic style, and suddenly you throw up something in decorative style, it disrupts the flow of the piece. And that kinda of disruption doesn't look good there, as it's a VERY realistic style piece.
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please keep doing it, it's fucking hilarious.
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If that's what you think, at least I was paying enough attention to parrot it back, where as you, apparently, were sleeping in class. Or seem unable to apply them in any real situation where the most interesting aspect of your piece isn't already given to you by someone who came along before.
Your mad skills of copying a movie promotional piece really do over whelm.
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I'm am wowed! WOWED AND AMAZED I TELL YOU.
You make me lol that you compare yourself to Warhol. Copying a picture=/=bein Warhol.
Oh, and the issue with your eyes is you have FAR too much whites, and it's way to light if you compare the lighter tones in his face to the lighter tones in yours. Because of how deep set his eyes are, the whites almost become a medium tone.
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which is fairly difficult to do and do passably well
maybe i made the eye too white to make it POP
DIRTY POP
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And by probably, I mean greatly.
It's why most the times when they're teaching you value you work in monochromatic.
Well, that it did.
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there's actually almost no white at all in that painting; the highlights are mostly fully saturated red.
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Natural skin tones are much more difficult to reproduce because the human eye is so use to them, it knows pretty instantly if their off. Like you said, you're making it more basic. And something like a triadic would be much harder to make look pleasing, then a simple monochromatic scheme.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE monochromatic schemes, but they're also very forgiving and easy to work with.
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As a person I am obviously not all too fond of you. XD
But that picture, on your DA, where you turned it red?
Amazing.
I've always admired people would could take a picture and do it in a different shade, or even color it as it was using the computer or paint or whatever. I try my damnedest and it never comes out quite right, so, I totally salute you, because your finished product is awesome.
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I mean "who could." Sorry.
Excuse the 3am typing errors.
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I like doing monochromatic stuff when I can, but it can be pretty difficult... admittedly it's easier with a photograph and doing it on the computer than trying to work from a live model with paints or whatever, but yeah.
I have a real love/hate relationship with realism, though; there are some people who can reproduce what they see with just amazing accuracy, and I've just never been one of them. I just practiced a lot.
But yeah, seriously, it's really nice to hear that you liked it. :)