look...its the last one

look its the last one I have in my gallery ..besides my sig pic...(the eyes)
but please do give me your oppinions on this one... I drew it of the member ashers ... but I guess maybe it doesn't look like him much...ugh ... you tell me what you think....

 

I like the way you did the shadowing and the hair...right on!

 

thanks dude... much appectiation

 

actually i do think you did capture him well, good job at painting. What did he think of it?

 

it was actually a pastel piece and well I think he liked it... ??? not sure ???

I was waiting for him to post

when I look at it now I think I could have done better but ...hey, what can ya do but try harder next time right

 

pastel really? wow ! very good!

 

O'vuto in Italiano, paro no me leshare respondered in Italiano. A'i una tradducione en englaise!

 

That's great.....I love the colors and the shading. The colors of the background really makes the rest of it stand out. You are very talented.

 

HUH???????

oh and thank you wondergirl


and I think you should reply in english altho Italian is beautiful

 

Sorry, I was surfing the art forums in Italian just to brush up & so nothing is in English, so I responded in it, thinking you were Italian. The guy looked it, so I figured... I didn't know it was the same posting translated, so I responded in Italian. Used to live there, sorry.



I like his face most of all. Pastels are a very challenging, permanent but transient media. You can smear & blend them, but can't get rid of a dark stroke on a porus surface. Did you use some opaque white & is that pastel too? If you are able to cover up whatever you were trying to do/undo on the left breast, you'll have to go back in with flesh color & then the chest hair again. Then reinforce his left nipple which you cannot see now.

Pastel doesn't layer very well at all. Did you go beyond leaving it whitish when you said you finished? That's left an odd bra-like effect only on the left. Also, the line formed by the same (chest hair) that extends up to the neck makes a hard exit & seems to isolate the arm. There's a collar bone & shoulder up there it seems to ignore. More shading to the upper left shoulder back around towards the other side should help, and very carefully & faintly towards the inside, but don't make that look any deeper, but you can bring out some flesh tone there. Whatever the lighting was on the photo, best not to take it too literally.

If you can cover something with pastel, I've learned that you cannot spray fix it, or the base strokes you're trying to cover will bleed right through & darken the whole picture, so that it looks just like it did before. It's almost better to do several of these & each one will improve. Picasso had his paintings erased often by his apprentice if he didn't get what he wanted. Then he began again fresh the next day. He wanted that sponteneity & look, he was using oils.

I like the curtain-like effect on the left of the picture, although a little sharp for a cloth background, but emphasizing the red around his outline to the right of the picture with so many repetative strokes doesn't work for me as it looks too patronizing of the area.

The flaws are simple to fix & avoid in the future. You show a lot of promise & just need to practice all day every day & those things will disappear. I learned from my mistakes. And made a lot of them until I learned. So make a lot of them with paint. But you can't fix them with dry media like pastels or pencil very well, and that's one of its drawbacks. Planning & a light touch.

 

yeah the effect of the ..um..light blue I used doesn't really show in the picture but.. thanks for asking... wow italian... I would love to go and speak the laguage...mmmm... just thinking about it makes me smile

 

you can draw 10 times better than i can

 

I think it looks beautiful....I have never seen pastel used in such a
manner.Good job, I think you have amazing style. You should try doing a vampire, as odd as that sounds I think it would go great with your style.

Wonderful skills.

 

Vampire...hmmm I will try...thank you for the sugestion

 

It looks like some very odd Nazi poster. I like it.

 

oh my days you've got some seriously powerful tonel stuff going on here.. i could reach out and touch him... i really like the colouring too... mm... thats quality

 

thank you Dandelion Blood.......

and Nazi...really???................huh?

well ok .........

 

When I opened it I thought it was ashers so i think you did a great job!!! If I could tell who it was before knowing who it was, then you rock!!!

 

Thank You dmgreen.... that really means alot

 

i haven't done anything with pastels in forvere becausei have no hairspray to keep it from smudging, really good job though.