Ok, here's my fourth pastel. I worked on it over two nights. It's based on a photo of mine included in the post.
This is one of my better and earlier photos. I'm pretty happy with the photo. I think I did do a little tweaking in photoshop getting rid of some background items and darkening the hair to meld into the background.
As for the pastel painting, I'm satisfied with it, I wouldn't say proud, but satisfied. I did draw it using the smoother side of the canson paper and I think that helped. I used black paper but in retrospect I probably should of used a lighter colour as it would have made her skin tone more fair.
Items I know I could have done better are;
- Right eyebrow: The angle is a little off. Erasing that big of a black area would have made a mess.
- Eye proportions: the eyes are a little far apart and there's not enough skin between the left eye and the side of her head.
- Right side of the face: I couldn't get the contours right.
- Right shoulder: Again, not sure how I could of fixed that without making a mess.
- Hair ends: I'm not sure how I could of ended the hair better.
- Background/Trimming: I copped out and just used black.
One cool thing I learned during this is that brown and blue make a good colour that can be used as a shadow for skin tones.
I'm looking for some real critiques so let me know!
1 comment:
It's admirable that you are trying to get those 50,000 pieces out of the way. My high school art teacher said something similar to the Chuck Jones quote and I really took it to heart. This pastel actually has a nice quality to it! Don't get to hung up on perfection, drawing with heart can take one far, sometimes I try to add imperfections because otherwise things get boring...
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