Hello everyone this is my first ever oil painting portrait. I started learning to paint 3 months ago and would like to know what I could do to improve.
I’m currently having second thoughts on this painting. I showed a few family members and my mom hated it and said that her face looks like puzzle pieces. I will admit I made my colors more orange shifted and I made some areas too dark. Im still new. (Sorry if the reference photo is hard to look at and compare)
Thanks!
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Nice work, the color matching is great. Ignore your mother, that's a really good first portrait, and tell her to stand further back.
My critique would be to use a proportional divider and make sure you got the width of the face correct, I think you narrowed it a little.
Welcome to the Forum.
What a great portrait. Love it.
Denis
And yes this is only the beginning!(: I do plan on redoing this same model months later when I master it. (:
And hope your power comes back fast!
Challenge thread
http://forum.drawmixpaint.com/discussion/5024/no-blend-challenge-come-and-join-in/p1
Blendless Possibilities exhibition thread
http://forum.drawmixpaint.com/discussion/5305/exhibition-blendless-possibilities-2016-the-no-blend-challenge#latest
Ask your mom what she thinks this is:
Tell your mom it is an ear. And the incompetant artist who painted it is Rembrandt.
Here you can see the rest of that painting:
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/self-portrait-as-the-apostle-paul/LwGcE5lQC5dLUg?hl=en&ms=%7B%22x%22%3A0.4318600948615545%2C%22y%22%3A0.3321412405826557%2C%22z%22%3A9.5%2C%22size%22%3A%7B%22width%22%3A1.8778438359231249%2C%22height%22%3A0.8303531014566394%7D%7D
Look at the blackness between her lips. See how it extends all the way horizontally in the source photo? In your paintings it doesn't and that changes her expression to more of a pout. If you add in the blackness there it will change her expression to more like the source photo.
And also since I didn’t blend.
But I think glazing is a matter of taste, because I feel like a gloss varnish should suffice.
And what’s a classic technique?
Agreed
Thanks!
And yes I do see it! That’s probably why my lips look so small too.