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AndyT
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Bluetraveller - the loose style is really cool!
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About 60 minutes.
#11
About 25 minutes.
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30-40 minutes.
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 10:35 pm |
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Duracel - visited your website and took a look at ALL your portraits. Your texture is really very nice. I like your experimental detail work. There is something very sensitive about your line/way you paint.
AndyT- Everybody starts somewhere. I couldn't get this whole digital painting thing for a LONG LONG time. What helped me was taking photos of people and pushing up/down the levels so I could study the way light hit the faces. I knew that once I figured out faces (lots of abstract patterns/colours in faces) I'd be ready for anything else.
Matthew- Hope you don't mind I did a overpaint of you. I just took your image (the one you were frustrated with) and painted over it to indicate shadow and form. A good trick is to take your completed image and make a greyscale version of it with the levels turned to the max. If there are any tonal problems...you'll soon find out. Don't be afraid to really push the darks and lights...
Anyway, my sample doesn't really look like you...hair is too wavy and beard is too full + chin too angular. Oh well. I tried... 
Ok. That's enough of faces now....I'll be doing some "real" scenes now....
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 11:15 pm |
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| What helped me was taking photos of people and pushing up/down the levels so I could study the way light hit the faces. I knew that once I figured out faces (lots of abstract patterns/colours in faces) I'd be ready for anything else. |
 I'll have to try that. Right, I guess I shouldn't even try painting SPs yet!?
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 4:31 am |
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Duracel - Thank you. :)
bluetraveller - I don�t mind, that looks great. :) You are right about the tonal stuff, I tried to make this one darker but then the resemblance disappeared...hehe.
Ok I added a photo this time too so you don�t think I am some sort of Chameleon, Played around with a robot on this one, maan I wanna be digital, I wanna be a robot.
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 11:59 am |
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Matthew - not a chameleon but a robot!...very nice and ummmmm.....scary.... 
AndyT- If you can, copy or anaylze an artist that you like....I've done it with Chiani's style as well as Capt. Fred's. I like Mon's and a couple of others I can 't remember. I started out copying Sargent's work as well. He's my all-time HERO!
Okay 'i'm outta here' 8^)
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 12:32 pm |
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blue, thx.
Matthew, youre a real hard trying man - my respect.
AndyT, great, too.
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 3:52 pm |
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A little arty |
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Matthew
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 5:12 am |
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bluetraveller - Yeah, hehe maybe I could have smiled a little bit on the photo too, I hope my latest port isn�t that scary. :)
Duracel - Thank you for keeping me motivated Duracel. :)
AndyT, IDMAN - keep up the good work, your are both great and AndyT your no:14 is very good. :)
Ok I got some tips from Capt.Flush with my acrylic painting and I had to implement them on today�s Self-port, A little bit cheating with these frontal self-ports but I need to get my tonal work in the right direction.
I noticed the eye is a little bit higher on this one so more work on the next self-portrait.
Edit - Spooge-demon gave me some really good tips in my latest thread and I will try to implement some of that stuff for my next self-port, maybe a self -portrait with only eye-sockets, yeah that should work.
thank you everyone and have a nice weekend.
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 2:18 am |
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Ok I tried the eye-socket thing and didn�t paint the glasses this time.
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 2:55 am |
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I've already posted this in speed painting but I saw this SP thread getting a little too low down the list for comfort.
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 3:22 am |
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Thanks Matthew and Duracel.
Great images Rorsh and IDMAN.
Capt. Fred ... yours is great as always.
Thanks for bumping the thread btw. 
Bluetraveller: I did look at images for inspiration of course.
But I'll have to copy and analyze as you said.
Torstein Nordstrand will be my first "victim" I guess.
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 3:51 am |
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(...)I wanna be digital, I wanna be a robot.
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You don't have (m)any friends, do ya?
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 11:33 am |
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On the way from a german-ArtForum-RealLife-Convention Digitaldecoy gave me his notebook and the chance to paint a selfportrait "on Tour"(thx, Daniel!).
A real bad LCD-Display, PS6(instead of 7), the rumbling train and only about 20-25Minutes 'cause of used akkus could not harm this joy of painting in any way! It was just fun and a real great experience - i have to own a notebook by myself - I need it!
This was a real great finish of this wonderful weekend with this german Art-Community.
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Matthew
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 11:45 am |
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Duracel - Wow, what a cool idea, great work. :) Thank you for sharing this.
Matthew
666Flat - Now I wonder, do you have many friends? Consider this, would I have said anything differently if I had many friends or no friends at all? |
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AndyT i thik you should try to force yourself to put more contrast in your paintings
Duracel art pimpin heh :O
Rorsh i like the second one very much
i dont know why im even posting this
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 5:40 am |
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ror: nice ones, dunno if I've seen how you actually look before
odd: I feel like that about these too...specially the first one
mirroring these wasn't a pleasant experience for me...
this one is hideous
a bit better hopefully
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 11:16 pm |
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reving up.. just getting used to painting in photoshop again.
BTW.. duracel.. thats so awesome what you;re doin. Keep that up!
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Thee Phunk of Kale
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Some of these are looking reeeeally good. Man you guys are good.
Here's my latest, photo ref. I can never seem to get the colors quite right if I paint from a mirror or something -- somehow, having the image right on my monitor, cm's away from my canvas, helps me commit to colors. Go figger.
Gimp, 30 min, from ref.
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 8:33 pm |
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 6:36 am |
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Even if I look ugly and stupid on this drawing, I kinda like it.
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 8:41 am |
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Monday - Friday, the ones to the left is the original and the ones to the right is just play-around pictures, hehe I turned into Jesus on one of them. :)
Keep it up everyone
Matthew the port guru, I think? ..hmm |
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 12:50 pm |
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very good, matthew.. I must to say that it was amazing to see your development =) yeah continue to do it.. I must to post something here  later....
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 12:09 am |
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Tomasis - Thank you Tomasis. :)
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This is actually the first time I try to paint something and not just color a drawing.
Done with water color.
Keep up the good work all of you..!
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 2:59 pm |
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Here is another to celerbrate Sijun comming back up again
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 4:04 pm |
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Ra, that's awsome.
I hope your head isn't really that big. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 4:56 pm |
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here's a few of mine from the past couple days
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 7:00 pm |
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how bout another.............
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