Oil Portrait Of Laurie, Don Seegmiller (c) 2004 (2D)

[Fnote]

Excellent. I really like the way you pulled off the oil painted look. Looks very natural. I’m wondering if you filtered this piece or actually painted the soft shadows on the brush strokes? Either way great execution!





-Bill

[AndyH]

Wow! very very nice work! Really soft look to it, and excellent face - it has a lot of expression.

[Feda]

Great technique you've got there, doesn't look digital!
The only crit I have is that the left cheekbone looks a bit flat..I am no expert in human anatomy, nor am I a good artist, so take my critique lightly:)
Great work:)

[jfb]

Really great pic, I like this portrait a lot!

[icepoint]

from your image or photo?

[ardenrey]

WoW! Wonderful work!:buttrock: I love it!

[kinkypuss]

very nice work.. wicked style..

[Gord-MacDonald]

Nice work. It has a 'Gainborough-ish' quality to it - although Gainsborough would have had more clothes on the model - LOL. Great technique. I love the way you have worked the hair and integrated it into the background. Terrific drawing.

Good Luck with your new book! (If this image is any indication...:thumbsup: )

Gord MacDonald

[Riddick]

It reminds me the reneval paints of an other website.
Great work!
But I'm not really a fan of the ellipse in the background.

Indeed nice portrait!

[giza]

You reach your aim, good work.

[partizan74]

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[ahven]

"oil" painting but it's digital oil ;)
Very good work! :applause:

[Archetype]

WoW

it looks like a dutch masterpiece only not done by a dutchie :D

[inkyspot]

A Beautiful art piece. I truly feel the form of the portrait, I feel the emotion. You have captured the skill of the old masters with this digital media. The yellow flower which color also translate well. set in front of her, as though your looking at her through some piece of hand crafted glass door. The appearence as though she is emerging from the backgound. Beautiful. I only wish I could have control of Painter like you, then these images in my head wouldn't be stiffling consistantly, trying to get out.
A Beautiful Piece.

[Garma]

hey a very well known name has entered the boards :) welcome here.

great piece, a little pale skincolors. I love the way you blended the hair in the sky.

hope to see more of you soon.

[Clanger]

WoW

it looks like a dutch masterpiece only not done by a dutchie :D


Just what I was thinking, extremely well done. Dutch Master pieces from the 17th century my most favorite art period and style.

[MoonVisionStudio]

Hi Don,

Thanks again for the presentation you gave at DDG. It was so inspirational that I have been up almost everynight since until 2 in the morning painting on the computer! I hope it pays off before I drop of a heartattack! ; )

Great painting. Thanks for sharing it!

Jose

[Fury]

very impressive!
loved your character design book btw. learned a ton about painter from it. looking forward to this next one.

[theCloudmover]

NICE piece.

An interesting choice for the b/g.

[Lotus7]

bautiful.. :applause: i just didnt like her nail.. it looks a little too green hehe

[yolk]

whos she?????

[olijosman]

Great portrait and style!:thumbsup:

[Paul F Diaz]

Very beautiful and inspiring! Her expression says so much. I love to see more of your work!:thumbsup:

[Milho]

For me its the face! 100% oldschool great! The flesh color is nice. Very subtle with only a bit red where it is needed. Great work.

hey a very well known name has entered the boards :) welcome here.

great piece, a little pale skincolors. I love the way you blended the hair in the sky.

hope to see more of you soon.

Wouldnt see it if you hadn't pointed at it Garma but wow Don Seegmiller, I was ages ago on your page and you work was and IS awesome.

Welcome on cgtalk. Me casa et su casa ;)

[Oregano]

Beautiful work, Mr. Seegmiller! I love your handling of brushstrokes. I've been using painter for almost a year now and have yet to figure out how to do that effectively.

Cheers,
~Oreg.

[Frenchy Pilou]

...nail is a monstery nail :rolleyes:
So that makes this painting more mysterious :cool:

[crutch]

I think it is wonderful, fantastic piece. My only crit is the collar bone neck area, it looks a bit too hard and to me is a little distracting. Overall great job!

[tayete]

Allright, how am I suppossed to tell my wife there's a new book from mr. Seegmiller, and I have to spend some more money in art? I found some excuses for the previous one, I'll have to start thinking for the upcoming.

[kraal]

great work mr. seegmiller ...... i have learned so much from your character design book. a new book you are co-writing ... hey wait a sec arent we already behind one book? (just messin with ya) but how about reinstating the tutorials on your website?.... again thanks for all the help you have givin me,

[Bars]

Classic technique - looks like painting from Renaissance period. More!:applause:

[erpel]

:bowdown: very beautifull did you draw with mouse or with a wacom thing?

[pumper]

relly nice... but i think the soulder looks a bit flat comparing to face....

[Bri_Spencer]

Absolutely beautiful work. You inspire me to be a better artist.

[GlenGramling]

im a big fan of your books, and im very excited your posting stuff on CGTalk

[donseeg]

Thanks everyone that has looked at the piece. I appreciate the comments.
The brush strokes are not filtered but a custom variant of a brush that I built in Painter. It gives you more flexibility than an effect in that you can vary the amount of the brushed effect using different settings. In this case I used stylus pressure to drive the depth of the stroke.
I did use a Wacom Tablet and Stylus. I am actually using the new Intous 3 tablet and liking it very much. I will check the anatomy in the shoulder/collar bone area. Sometimes when I have looked at an image for so long, I can not see the problems clearly which is why I do appreciate comments.

The tutorials on my web site are problematic for me. I really don't want to post tutorials that will compete with the books that I have slaved over....nevertheless, I do have the intention of getting them working again at some point.

Thumb nail does need work. Left the hand generally less finished than the face on purpose but that does indeed need a bit more attention. Thanks.

Sorry, never tell who my models are. :)

I have posted a couple of close up images at 100% the image size. They may help give a better feeling about how I did the brush work. The goal was to handle things like oil in that the lighter colors would be built up with texture more than the darks. This is particularly noticable in the flower. An interesting side is that I did not really use any texture in the skin and face as it became a distraction. Hopefully the effect is of the two areas being handled in a similar manner without a distracting texture in the skin. here are the links.

Flower http://www.seegmillerart.com/flower.htm
Face http://www.seegmillerart.com/face.htm

Thanks again

Don

[pogonip]

I bought the book with your digital painting techniques...cause your too good :)

[Oregano]

Don,

I just visited your site and the dragon on your splash page looked strangely familiar... As a matter of fact, I *KNEW* I'd seen someplace before, and not on the web, just recently.

Last night, as a matter of fact...

On the cover of a book by Cornelia Funke that I was reading to my two boys entitled Dragon Rider :applause::D

Fun stuff. My boys love your dragon picture. I'm kind of fond of it as well :) :beer:

I hope to do book covers at some point myself. It's a major goal of mine, so when I notice things like this, it's a kick.

Cheers again,
~Oregano (who's off to browse your site and order your book!)

[malcolmvexxed]

Hi, Don. It's Stephen Broome from Digital Broome. As always your work is great, this one has a Sargent quality to it without being derivative. Hope you've been well!

[noen]

it is very nice Don - what i dont understand is why in a tutorial on the figure you cant show the figure? I am sure that, like me, you have spent many hours working from life. I lost my "shyness" over working with nudes long ago. Or is that forbidden here?

loved you book on character design and looking forward to what's to come


noen

[donseeg]

Noen,


Good question. Often it is the publisher that has specific rules governing what is acceptable and not acceptable for their audience. Such is the case. I should do a full blown tutorial on a nude figure on my site where these restrictions do not exist.....hmmmm, good thought.

Cheers
Don

[phoenix]

excellent simply marvelous

[Christoph_H84]

Really great portrait!
It truely has this oil painting feel to it. I just love it.
I really liked how you contrast the background from the figure using this wild strokes for the background and how that merges with the hair! You did an awesome job!
The only thing I that confused me, was her fingernail. It kind of sticks out, but maybe that's just me.

[digitalhadz]

i like it!... nice brush stroke and textures.

[Tranchefeux]

Hello, very sympathetic this painting, I like the use of the varnish,
which imitates rather well the reality of true a painting.

Cordially

www.tranchefeux.com

[Atwooki]

Good to see you here, Don! beautiful work as always, and truly excellent brushwork :)

Just PMMed you, btw

Atwooki

[yellowworm]

yeah...wow!
you're amazing.

this piece is exceptional...
and speaks volumes.

a little van-gogh-ish...
a little you.

i very much dig it.

[nicomott]

Always knew you were good dad, just not that good. :love:

[adel3d]

Wonderful work!:thumbsup:

[techart]

nice painting dude...just kiding......cool brushes....cool emboss...cheers

[dragon4lunch]

Seegmiller art rocks!:bounce:

[donseeg]

Thanks......

Don

[jody]

very nice!! I like it so much!!:love:

[Veldar]

While a beautiful piece I must say that your flower gives a sizable amount of competition with the wonderful job you did of the girls face. My eye goes to her face for a split second before being yanked down to the flower...perhaps adding a touch less contrast around the flower might help this. But then again your in a book, and I am not. HAH!:thumbsup:

[node raider]

OIl or Acrylic?
Beautiful work.
Thank you.
Node Raider

[donseeg]

That is one of the great things about painting figures. The center of interest is almost always the face....Something about human nature draws us to the face first....

You could be right. I may have too much contrast around the flower and need to look at that. The eye is attracted by areas of greatest contrast and while I did want this to be seconday, it may be too front and center..

About the book thing....all it means is that you have fooled someone into thinking you know what you are talking about.. :)

Cheers
Don

[donseeg]

Digital Oil.....:)

Don

[e-apollo]

Wow, as many others have said it, you sure pulled off the actual look of real paint. I am always impressed by your portraiture pieces. A bit off thte note, have read your book, by the way, and it completely changed the way I work on Painter. I must say thanks.

[East]

You did classic beautiful!

[cateaic]

Beautiful painting...so fresh! Excellent color choices as well. Can't wait to get your'e new book!! The only thing that stuck out was her thumb (towards the top). It looks a bit muddy compared to the rest of the painting.

[dsaevajr]

http://www.cgnetworks.com/gallerycrits/56447/56447_1096349380_medium.jpg (http://www.cgnetworks.com/gallerycrits/56447/56447_1096349380.jpg)

Title: Oil Portrait Of Laurie
Name: Don Seegmiller (c) 2004
Country: United States
Software: Painter

This image was done for an upcoming book that I am co-authoring on digital art. I am doing the chapters on 2D art. This particular piece was attempting to mimic to a certain degree traditional oil paints and is for a tutorial specifically about painting the figure. Comments are of course welcome and appreciated.


When is your new book coming out? I have Digital Character Design and Painting and look forward to your next one, I find your work stunning and very inspiring..

Dennis :bounce:

[Mindgem]

Slick.
I realy enjoy the parts that seems like a misstake, like a red paint stain on the edge of the dress. thats very 1880s. My fab period of traditional canvasart(for now).

[PLATE]

It does look like an oil painting! Can't believe it's not oil! lol :D

[sam4grafix]

oil painted look is too good!!

[pushav]

WOW! even though the arm looks a little flat but wow....wow.....wow.....wow...wow...! You have ispired me to dust off my wacom tablet and get 2 try and paint again. I liked how you manage to blend the cloros with brushes in painter to make the portrait look like an oil painting.

And p.s. could you put some tutorials on your site. Pleeeeeeease:D

[AmazeMe]

I have seen your work before and this is amazing. Now I have to collect all my pennys, nickels, and dimes to get Painter.
I have CD 9 and 11 suites and am still in the learning faze. Thanks for sharing your works.

The real rookie

[Ameer Magdy]

I loved this person ....

magnificent Work!

[TiCool]

Too good to say anything, a very nice sample for me to obeserve and to learn:thumbsup::bounce:

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