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Olga Kurylenkoby ~AlexanderCasteels

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / People / Portraits

I realized I have never really tried to paint realistic, especially when it comes to faces. So... here's that, first time for everything.

I got seriously inpatient like usual when I was around 50% through and started rushing shit. I have to sort that out mjan.

I have this video of screen shots capturing the process but my internet is being a mofo and it won't complete the converting stage. I'll update once it's done here, in my journal or through that tweeter-shit.

*Update: [link]

ref photo: Olga Kurylenko

Critique by ~nachtbluht Aug 17, 2009, 8:24:00 PM

Your sense of realism while maintaining artistic vision is excellent. A lot of artists sacrifice realism for vision or feeling, and others sacrifice feeling for spot on anatomy. Colors are great, texture too, especially the portrayal of fur. The anatomy is near perfect, the only errors are technical, and even so, they don't look bad or glaringly obvious. The stark shadow near the right side (her left) of her neck should be lighter so as to show her shoulder and collarbone, otherwise her coat collar is just suspended there without reason to be. The line where her wrist appears from the cuff of her sleeve is too simple, it doesn't have a sense of depth to it. The shadowing on her face is near perfect, perhaps blend a bit better just below her cheekbone (the starkness of light and dark makes it appear somewhat lumpy when she skin should be smooth there, same thing with the eye on the left/her right eye). Aside, kudos to the different sized pupils. Since one is shaded that one should logically be larger, a thing a lot of folks forget. Her hand looks great, that cigarette is so real that I will be stepping outside myself in a moment, and her jewelry and lips look fantastic. In conclusion, I would say color, texture, and portraying contrast with lights and darks are your greatest strengths in realism. Work a little more on your shading from a logical standpoint (the colors and shapes themselves are fine, just how you place them and the starkness is all), and push anatomy and body parts logically being visible. Oh, and I don't know if you left it out intentionally or forgot, because it looks fine without it, but there's no cigarette smoke. It isn't really necessary though, looks great without it.

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