I honestly can seldom tell, when I’m doing one of these surreal portraits, if it ‘works’ as a painting or not. The ‘moon’ matches her hair but isn’t consistent with the natural looking bricks. I like this ‘moon’ but ... mix and match is sometimes a bit tricky to pull off. It’s a hell of a lot easier to do some stupid ‘normal’ portrait than it is to play around with altering skin tones, etc.
Something is amiss with this Miss. So, what to do?
http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/pic/000584hg/g11
(She isn't really bad. She's just the intense type and she’s based on a photograph of an old girlfriend of mine.)
2007-06-24 09:04:01 · 7 answers · asked by Doc Watson 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Darbin, you might want to look through these other portraits I've done before suggesting that I try to 'do' Lichenstein art. I think I perfer 'doing' myself.
2007-06-24 09:49:12 · update #1
The other portraits:
http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/gallery/0000b4gp
2007-06-24 09:50:47 · update #2
1. There is nothing wrong with the perspective. This pose was taken directly from a photograph of an old girlfriend.
2. Her face is in the center of the painting for two reasons: The canvas is only twelve inches wide and the portrait is large. I couldn't move her to one side or the other without making her head and face much smaller.
3. What I figured out was that her lips are too 'pronounced' and I toned the color down somewhat. The 'moon' was too large and I made it smaller. And she simply had way too much hair and I painted some of it out.
2007-06-26 13:52:11 · update #3
I like it, but there is something about her mouth that doesn't seem right. Over all very nice I just finish a monochromatic blue coral fish painting out of my head soon to be on my web site if my health aloud it to be. Keep painting well expressed painting.
2007-06-24 09:54:33 · answer #1 · answered by chelo R 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
left side is good. right side of her face gone all awry, you tried to do perspective but it doesn't work the way you did it.. Just practice and you will be great eventually. I don't think it's all bad.
I don't think there is anything surreal about it, not even particularly intense, so if you want that you will have to think more about what you need. It does look illustrative in a graphic illustration sort of way.
2007-06-24 16:15:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the lips. They look like they are from a frontal face while the eyes and nose we are seeing 3/4 view of. turn the lips slightly. That's where it went awry. But thats easy to fix. Once you fix the lips the cheek will have to be brought in more in the bottom. Hope this helps!
2007-06-25 19:11:08 · answer #3 · answered by aurora 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like it but the point of interest (her Face) is to centralized. I would place her lower on the canvas and more to the side. It will give it more interest and make it more dinamic instead of the static composition. Rest of it looks fine.
Keep up th egood work and answers.
2007-06-24 16:55:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe that there is nothing really surrealistic about this painting, but it gives out a very Roy Lichtenstein kinda feel if you know what I mean. I would continue with the look of Roy Lichtenstein and make the "Miss's" hair blonde. If you like my idea, just explore different Lichtenstein's paintings like this one http://theheretik.typepad.com/the_heretik/images/roy_lichtenstein_hopeless.jpg.
2007-06-24 16:20:38 · answer #5 · answered by Darbinator 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Just a quote:
"When I'm good, I'm really good.
When I'm bad I'm even better."
The txt pulls the portrait back to the center. It sorta breaks the tension.
2007-06-24 17:35:25 · answer #6 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, I kind of like it. I don't see much wrong with it, so to speak. Just keep on paintin', dude.
2007-06-24 16:39:31 · answer #7 · answered by hillbilly 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋