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see · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:08 am

wow. pleaaaaz open a thread amoe! That image is lovely. Rustedfaithstyle. nice texture, cool idea. Enough for your own thread?!

faB · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:04 pm

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watmough · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:48 pm

that from a mirror,fab?

faB · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 9:51 am

Yes, from mirror, I exagerated the shadows somewhat, still very flat though. I had just read Loomis's notes on accentuation, selection & subordination. That helped me actually thinking while I painted it ... contrary to these Sad

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Capt. Fred · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:31 pm

ahh just remembered the Sp thread, sorry for the partial cross post:
self portraits from the mirror, apologise for the poor quality photoing.

faB · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 7:45 pm

Two pieces with artrage

This was supposed to be a rough sketch for painting and I battled it on 4hrs to try and get ot right, I stopped before frustration set in..

f34r my receding hairline ... Confused

I wanted to do a painting dammit, screw proportions! Very Happy

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balistic · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:04 pm

edit: somehow my landscape speedpaint ended up in this thread. weird.

move along, nothing to see here *whistles innocently*
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watmough · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:21 pm

lol@balistic

faB · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:35 pm

ha ha ha, my evil plan worked flawlessly !! Wink

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watmough · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:38 pm

you mean the one about george bush getting re-elected?

watmough · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:39 pm

faB · Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:08 am

Sheesh, where's everybody gone?

I tried the 'grisaille' method. I spent an ungodly amount of time on this one... almost 12 hours. Embarassed

I spent half this time in step 1.

Not sure about the background in the final version, but I left it for curiosity's sake: it's PURE GRAY !! My eyes just wont give me gray, it looks coloured one way or another.

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DangerousLlama · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:49 am

nice work fab

like your paints watmough

Capt. Fred · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:02 am

faB, watmough, llama, those are great! Really nice job there llama, must take a lot of restraint and skill to keep the paper blank for the midtones like that.

painted this last night. 2 hours with acrylic in front of the mirror.
It's my first acrylic in months. I realised I've only done a small handful of acrylic paintings in total and want to learn how to paint with matter.

I learnt some stuff, like you don't have to paint opaque all the time, and can paint semi-transparently/wet over dry areas to darken them down or lighten them up progressively.

Is worth getting more than one brush? I mean I don't want to sped the money if it's not necessary, but do any of you know if it makes things easier?

I included a grayscale version because I painted it under an odd-coloured artificial light and only in the morning did I see what colours I'd really been using!

yes, my hair is that shiny with grease, and no, you may not laugh at my hideous teenie-tash!

matter · member Member # Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 82 Location: ny

worked on this for about 2 nights' worth... it's sitting in a student show drying now so i was luckily forced to quit...

nice everybody Smile

self-portraits are a bitch!
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Kendeathwalker · junior member Member # Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 37

matter- that is.. 32 flavors of awesome.
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jr · Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 7:35 pm

these things always look so lame. but good to do once in a while
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Tomasis · Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:31 am

forgot to post the old thing from sept

dont remember if it was made copied from ref or spiegel Very Happy

EDIT oh well thanks, fab

faB · Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:46 pm

Thanks Llama, Capt Fred,

llama- great value range, what medium is it ?

jr - doesnt have to look lame, but yes selfportraits can be very unforgiving :/ I like yours, there's a little problem with the jaw, or angle of the head, the eye-nose-mouth axis seem to be on a different axis, if your head was slightly titlted forward, that's a very nasty angle to draw Smile

I think unless you can see beyond all thinking and symbols, which is very hard with self portraits and portrait s in general, only construction can help,

Tomasis- cant see yours and I think it didnt work a few days ago last time I checked as well..

I read somewhere that the art of portrait was like the 'holy grail' of art. so when I do a horrible SP I think 'thats ok.. I knew it was going to be really hard anyway'.. these things can really frustrate me, some days I just cant 'see' the way portraits need you to see. :/

Here's scruffy me or something that resembles it. I felt the background was empty so I had some fun. Charcoal Pencil 7 in Corel Painter IX.

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faB · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:48 pm

Tomasis: that's nice, looks solid and a little graphic, good job on the fore-shortened side of the face.

jr- I forgot to say I like how you put the values in the face and left the rest as lines, so the whole comes out as 'a portrait'.
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DangerousLlama · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:06 am

thanks fab... it was charcoal and... some white stick of something lol was either conte or white charcoal(?)

these are quick charcoal ones...

Kasimir · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:04 pm

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StylesDavis · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:22 pm

llama, that is really not bad for a...let me breath in deeply... 17 years old... Exclamation

hell, wherefrom did you get these skills that early?

you really frigthen me... keep it up.
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nellenmellen · junior member Member # Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 23

Heres a self portrait I did a while ago, took me a while to do In PS 7, once I started I couldnt stop Very Happy

vindow · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:41 pm

just my first PS7 self................. hope u like it pls tell me ..... ur opinion frankly......

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vindow · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:26 pm

one more self portait ....
i amaze to c one in traditional n one in digital media.... both r great tool in themself. i love to work in both way......
actually its fun to paint no matter what is in ur hands....... Wink

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Mon · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:47 am

vindow, love that aquarelle, great piece.
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faB · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 8:44 am

vindow I think your SP's a great and in case you don't know about it, checkout the conceptart.org 'guest self portrait' forums and come and post there !
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=22
Its been a little slow as we approach the new year, but it's a great forum with lots of feedback. Post in the monthly thread if you are interested!
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faB · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:37 pm

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DangerousLlama · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 2:04 pm

arrrr... you know my secret davis... lol

great work!

acrylic: