Pointillism portrait

[CybrGfx]

A lot of patience to do that type of work.

Your perspective is off, making your anatomy look kind of creepy, like the Addams Family, especially the little girl in the lower LH corner. The faces were lengthened and dropped. The boy's glasses have a different shape, and the eyes are off on all three of them.

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/6844/cgtalkportraitau0.gif

But the patterning of the sweater, although a bit skewed, looks beautiful in tonal variation.

If this is the effect you were going for, I think you've done a really good job. If it isn't, next time, consider making a light grid, and transfer the proportions properly, to keep them consistently looking like the subjects you are working on. It will save you the investment of excessive amounts of time creating a portrait that doesn't resemble its subjects very much.

(BTW, what is a "night auitor?" ;) )

[Shaggy]

thanx for the C&C
ya i need to work on tranfering over so i can get it more accurate
the lady im doing this for loves it so im going with it
i really dont want to take the time to redo it
thats 6 months of work.

[CybrGfx]

I agree.

And if I had paid you to do it, after 6 months, I'd accept it too.
I'd probably even say I loved it. More for the time and effort you put into it, than the successfulness of the results.

We have such a portrait in pastels hanging in our garage.
The rendering has us looking oriental, and somewhat like evil mages smiling as they prepare to unleash something... REAL nice colors and blending, tho'...Took the woman 4 months.

In all honesty, looking at it from both sides of the issue, you're NOT giving your client their money's worth. And just looking at the creepy little girls' eyes, you should know that in your heart. While you don't "want" to take the time to redo it, if you are being paid, you "need" to do the job right.
This does not look like a quality portrait, it looks like a pointillism experimental piece, which is what it is.
You might consider letting her have this version, and then doing a more professional portrait, focusing more on your rendering, than your pointillist technique, and swap it out.
You certainly should have an improved technique after all this time, and this time, you'll do the foundation drawing correctly, rather than eyeballing (haha! get it? "eye ball?" ~ Never mind...) it, you will provide your client with something worthy of hanging in a place of honor for everyone to see. I'll guarantee you right now, that 80% of the people who see that portrait will be lying if they say they love it. That's how polite lying works.

Pointillism is not a good technique for portraits unless the artist is a skilled renderer first. Once you have a good, accurate drawing of your subjects, THEN you spend countless hours making little dots all over the thing for shading and color...

Professionalism is of equal importance to artistic skills, if not more.
My sig says it all. And you did NOT try your best on this. It shows too well.

~M

[Shaggy]

ya i agree, but one vital thing about this is important.
she is getting it for free.

this is the first piece ive done like this in 6 yrs most of the time i do landscapes in pointillism.
im going to be doing more for porfolio reasons next.

ive always been good at pointillism but portraits are hard and its been to long since ive done one.

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