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Published: 2019-11-17 15:40:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 2466; Favourites: 236; Downloads: 8
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You might remember this sketch I did last winter, and now I turned it into a painting. It was supposed to be November outside, but it looks like April. And I have repainted her face some four times, and it is still awful. I feared that the floor would be the most difficult part, but I am happy how it turned out.More of this series:
Watercolor, 21x29 cm
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I'm going to divide my critique on commenting whole picture and than some parts of it. As a whole, the atmosphere is very dim and melancholic, probably because of the colors, plus there are bunch of "cold" objects in a small room. As a technique, I know watercolors are not an easy technique, but this is where I have a few objections: three-dimensionality is better shown on objects than on the woman. Her clothes, and the way they merge into her skin in the upper body, it's the weakest part of the picture as far as technique. The perspective on the upper right locker is little off.
I like the way outside was drawn, the view from the window. There are a lot of details well drawn. And play of light and dark on the floor is great. My favorite details are keyboard and brown-yellow box on the top.
All in all, it looks like a lot of time well spent.
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Your amazing picture has a very lovely athmosphere and the whole art is very detailed, well organized and harmonic. The colors are kind, well choosed and nicely mixed. Shadings are excellent and kind for the eyes. I love this purple-bluish shading what you use. The character's pose is very dinamic and harmonic even though she is sitting in the middle of the room on a chair. The room looks like it is realy used for everyday works. Furnitures, boxes, books and the other background elements are well composed and drawned in a non static way.
You did a great work! ^^
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JL always stands and sits in such awkward yet cool and natural poses that I just have to paint her again!
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The floor come out amazing, as did the rest, how many hours work do these painting take?
Thanks for sharing your work
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Thank you!
I suspect some 8 hours for the sketch and some 12 for painting?
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Impressive speed too, you work fast! considering the complexity and scale of the piece...
I guess it all depends on what kind of flow state i get into and how many interruptions i get (usually tons)
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I like seeing this portrait in context of a workshop space.
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Thank you! I love the environment myself
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wow it looks like a photograph!
beautiful the atmosphere you gave with watercolors.
everything is perfect
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Thank you!
These drawers were a nightmare: it is really difficult to make such a repetitive thing look decent.
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Какая прекрасная атмосфера.
Вопрос один: как так произошло, что я ещё на Вас не подписана?)
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think that you painted such a sinfony of greys RiEile... love it
cheers from Switzerland
// Dominik
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Thank you! I love neutrals.
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So many details, it looks fantastic (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))♡
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She looks hard at work— it looks beautiful & detailed in color. Wonderful work!
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<3<3<3 это, кстати, новый гранулирующий ультрамарин от Шминке.
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I think the painting is wonderful. I also know from my sculpting that I can see things when I take a photo of it, that my naked eye does not see.
Having experience in sculpting faces, I understand why you're not happy with the four attempts because it doesn't quite match the more vague and youthful appearance of the original drawing. As you probably already know, one little change can fix it almost like a miracle (if you find it), while a dozen incorrect changes only compound the problem.
I compared your face drawing to this painted version. What I saw was a soft-roundness in the drawing of the face, and the painted version has more rigid/strong features.
I'd suggest four things from my observation of her face. First is to move the right eye very slightly away from the nose. The second is to lower the right eyebrow and move it outward as well. The third suggestion is to soften the sharpness of the right cheekbone, as the values go from light to dark abruptly. And the fourth suggestion is to move the cheekbone forward.
A fifth option is to plump up the left cheek with a bit of roundness in the shadows on the far side of the face. Also, I noticed in the drawing that the vague shape of the nose seems higher and slightly more upturned than the painted version.
I take a photo of a sculpture and lightly draw lines over the areas that I think need improvements. You can do the same here by copying your photo, and then practicing on the face until you get what you're trying to achieve.
Sculptors work by looking at the shadows of our three dimensional pieces. That's why I can see this in your painting, and why you're uncomfortable with the results - but I still think it looks great.
I hope this helps a little bit.
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See, everyone loves this. You were worried for no reason. Fantastic composition. A truly satisfying watercolor painting
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WOW! Thank you for such detailed and quick (!) comment!
I was actually unhappy with the initial sketch as well, and thought about adding a bit more definition to her face. Here is a WIP where the sketch for the painting is still visible.
I like your points about the eye and the cheek, the cheek problem was immediately obvious, while the eyebrow issue became evident after you mentioned it. I might go back to it in a week or so to tweak it. The main problem fo me here is the scale: the face is so tiny and the paper texture is comparable to the size of the facial features.
On the other hand, I realize that the painting is not about the face, and at some point it had to be finished, not perfect if it conveys what it has to: a woman looking for something in a dark drawer that occupies half of the tiny cluttered workshop.
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You're welcome. Just some friendly observations.
Your refined sketch does show her face with more detail and looks much more like the completed watercolor. I thought you were perhaps going for a more youthful look from the original drawing. This new detailed facial sketch makes her appear a bit older and matches the painting.
I think her head scale is fine, considering the angle and perspective.
It's a beautiful and detailed piece regardless!
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