[Kjetil Nystuen]

-This is soooo 4 months ago, somebody wrote... hehe. But here's another selfportrait. I've never been the fastest fella around anyway. I have tried to make it look like a baroque-painting, with the brownish colors. I am a Mac-user, so I guess some of you have to turn up the brightness a little to see it better. Critics are welcome.



Oh, and by the way, I have opened my website now. Please take a look, and give me some feedback if you like.

This weekend I'm going skiing in Trysil. Maybe I catch some of you guys at the afterski?

Hmmm... this picture sure look strange on my laptop...

-Kjetil

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[ceenda]

Hiya Kjetil, I like the atmosphere of this portrait alot.

The farthest eye seems to be a little too low. I have a habit of doing the same!

That's a real nice range of colours as well. Great stuff!

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[burn0ut]

Looks good man, reminds me of thoes real old paintings

[mykscholze]

Nice work!

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[NilreMK]

Maybe you should use a darker background on the right and a much lighter one on the left. Hopefully, that'll create a nice contrast with your face and make it more "interesting" than your cheek... Because right now your cheek is really the center of attention. Nice painting though.

-N

[agent44]

It looks great, I really like that warm feeling. Just one crit, his right side seems a little muddy. You might want to use make some parts darker or lighter to define a little more. I checked out your web page, it looks great. I really like your portraits.

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[Liquid!]

Nice piece!! I'm with Agent on the "right side of the face", however otherwise I really like it!

[sacrelicious]

Cool! I'm being quoted now. Moving up in the world.

Seriously though, this is an excellent painting. Really well done, no crits aside from the previous suggestions. Actually, I kind of like the idea of a reverse lighting scheme for the background. But it's great as it is now. Good job!

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Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.

[Cuddly]

Very nice! I think you captured the expression perfectly! Dunno what you look like, but the portrait looks like a "real face" would - everything is where is should be. Also love the use of colors.

I'm with the crowd on increasing the contrast on the left background of the painting.

[Joachim]

very very nice kjetil. Everything looks great. If it would have been anyhing to pick on, maybe it could have been nice if you added a few color variations and also some harder edges here and there. But, other than that, awesome.

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[Kjetil Nystuen]

Thanks for the response everyone. This critics was very useful to me.

Ceenda: Your picture was great, I saw it the moment when I was going to post this one. Fantastic work. I almost didn't post this one.. Thanks for mentioning the eye. I have to admit that the left side is pretty underworked... It will be fixed today.

BurnOut and mykscholze, thanks.

NilreMK, you have a good point. It would have made a good contrast. My idea was to let the left side of the face almost dissapear into the painting, but I see that my cheek is a bit too much in the centre of things. I will try reverse it. Thanks.

Agent44, maybe the right side is a bit muddy. This means I should have worked some more on it. I'm glad you liked my homepage.

Liquid, I will try to do something about the right side.

Sacrelious, I like the idea for the reversed lightning too. Otherwise, thanks.

Cuddly: Hopefully I look something like my selfportrait.

Hi Joachim, glad you like it. I get your points, and I'll sharpen some edges here and there and go for a general shape-up.

I really got useful critics here, so I've decided to work some more on the picture, just have to get through this days work first. Thank you.

-Kjetil

[This message has been edited by Kjetil Nystuen (edited January 24, 2001).]

[Weeks]

I like it very much....
A very nice work...

euh...!? maybe (a little) something with your ear...???! :-)

Weeks

[toast!]

really nice kjetil

too bad you get rid of the background

i think everything has been said for the critics

keep it up !

toast

[Kjetil Nystuen]

I did some touch-ups. I haven't really reversed the colors, but I put some more light begind the face on the left side. I have tried to fix the left eye, but it's so dark there, I think it's really hard to do it right. Anyway, I hope you find this version to be better.

Weeks, I have tried to work on the ear a little. I hope it helped.
Toast: ... Well, I didn't find a good background, and it was a portrait anyway. After taking a look at some Rembrandt pictures in an old encyclopedia, I did this instead. I think it works better.



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[Freddio]

dam your good..

Mirror or photograph as reference...


but does it look anything like you?