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I have always had difficulty shading.. people say I'm actually good at it, but I hate my shading technique. I've tried looking at tons of work on here and I always think I "got it" but then I try and ...

good thing it's not moving life or else i'd REALLY be in trouble HA-HA Surprised

This is my second attempt at a still life. I actualyl finished it, and although it's not as good as the other finished wor ...

hmm, thanks again for your replies! Laughing

i say hmm because i tried to use lots of colors Confused

i read at utorial that showed the difference between painting a lemon with yellow and white and with ...

This is my second painting from a still life and it's hard as hell :bash: :bash: The lemon's shadows made me want to kill myself. I just couldn't match it...

Anyway, I realize i didnt do a backgrou ...

My grandparents are coming home from vacation and they aer passing a very good art store. they said they would pick me up anything i need. When i started oil painting a month or so ago i picked up som ...

Never use white??
I use white all the time.. i thought it was never use black except for very small amounts.

I know most of you wouldn't consider this a "finished work" .. my apologies. I bet fredflickstone could churn one of these 1000 better as a "sketch" in 1 hr. It took me 2-3 hours though, all wet on we ...

This is my third real oil painting since I got my paints a little while ago. It's my second oil painting of skin tones (See the thread: Need help for oil painting skin.. that's my first attempt). I've ...

hmm.. i think the mouth is just too big. also the diples or cheeks are way to accentuated. if youre trying to give her a devious look, you could probably make the mouth a little narrower (take off tho ...

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well.. here we go Confused

I had the eyes really good except for the highlights, but i changed them a little more and it made them worse it ...

Well I finished round 4... WHen i finished i was like :bow: :bow: YES I finally made it look halfway decent color wise.. then i left to get a drink and on my way back i looked at my painting from a ...

*big sigh*

Well.. i finished the values, and now i just did colors. I feel like the worst artist ever, and i kind of lost all motivation to try again.
Crying or Very sad

The colors on my palette were cad ...

here's what i have.

colors are REALLY fucke dup in this pic, but im still working on it

The image is 16x20"

http://www.thelag.net/cgi-bin/hosting/web_pages/Zaphod/asdf.jpg

Thanks for the tips Very Happy

I've established light and darks using raw umber (darks) burnt sienna (midtones) and yellow ochre (lights).

Now I'm going to let it dry, but how should I go about painting ...

I just got a bunch of oil paints and I have never painted before a week or two ago. I did a still life well, then i did a landscape but stopped because i tired of painting palm trees Confused

I decided ...

ah my god, im such an idiot. i should have realized that. thanks a lot... damn.

ARgggggg I want to sunder my wacom apart... I'm trying to do a "speedpainting" (or a regular painting for the matter). Basicall I'm trying to just get a rough painting down (similar to the faces made ...

I've always just taken whatever color looked good and threw them together in Painter 8. Well after realizing that my art sucks. I thought I should do more investigation on whats wrong. I've read prett ...

wel i dont know if that's what it's technically called. but its wehre you fill the whole thing with a color, then "block in" with more and more detail. just do the big shapes first. Mainly how everyon ...

This is my first post here. I dont think the viewing of my artwork is worthy of your inhuman god artist eyes.

Anyway, I made this a long time ago before I knew about color theory (I'm working o ...