Portrait - The Good The Bad And The Ugly

[BillyWJ]

After reading this:

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hmmm, i’m little bit worried that my work shouldnt be here…

I’m not painting on phtoto, I’ve printed it, and im working looking at it, but i made a grid on this to make this easier.

what u think?

The strict legal definition is recreating the original, so you’re definitely in danger of the webmasters taking this image down. I would just work on it and not post it here.

I would also urge you to start with lines, not block shapes. What you’re doing, you’re painting yourself into a corner (pun intended, heh), and you’ll struggle with this.

I would also add a color to the background, a light tone, or an environment, or just a neutral color, as all that white will influence your eye, and establishing values will be much harder. (Values = light or dark)

[MarcinG]

thx for reply

After reading this thread:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=31&t=1036600

I decided to show my work here, becouse i need advices durign my work :).

So i started again, as BillyWJ said, from lines.

[MarcinG]

eny suggestion?

[Williamwinkler]

I like what you’ve done so far. Keep going, I would make sure to put in a BG of some sort. are you going for photo real? If so; once you get to the really hard stuff like pores, breaking up the skin, detailed hair, and other complex photo stuff I can help with some tricks I use. Good job so far, but like I said keep going forward.

[MarcinG]

Im thinking of drawing legs … but i have no refenrence

[Williamwinkler]

you should look up ref from other photos of people wearing pants, thats part of reference.

[MarcinG]

Head detailes done

I think i wont go for photo realizm, because this photo is not good enough, and noise is quite big problem.

But i think that level of detail is good enough.

[burtong]

Marcin to Marcin

Podoba mi sie ten Clint Eastwood ale powinnes bardziej wiecej sharpenu utylizowac, jest durzo bluru.
Uwarzaj na ACTA bo do domu ci pszyjdom za te copiowanie
Zobacz tego kolege on ma wadne terz rysunki z referancjami …

http://miketartworks.cgsociety.org/gallery/672149/

[MarcinG]

Marcin to Marcin

Podoba mi sie ten Clint Eastwood ale powinnes bardziej wiecej sharpenu utylizowac, jest durzo bluru.
Uwarzaj na ACTA bo do domu ci pszyjdom za te copiowanie
Zobacz tego kolege on ma wadne terz rysunki z referancjami …

http://miketartworks.cgsociety.org/gallery/672149/

HEHE jaki ten swiat maly :).

Co do sharpenu no to jest ze tak powiem 3 level dopiero, jak wszystko dorowadze do tego samego poziomu co glowa to zaczne dodawac ostateczne szczogoly

Z ACTA

[MarcinG]

New update, i decided to finish head - final details

and poncho

[MarcinG]

Now im working on vest.
Here is what i’ve done:

but im not satisfied whit it, i think right side is too blury.

I’ve put lots of work into drawing fur. Made some brushes to speed this up, but eventually ended correcting it by hand.

[MarcinG]

Shirt done, vest corrected.

[MarcinG]

Trouser and belt done

[Williamwinkler]

coming along quite nicely

[MarcinG]

thx

only hands and gun to go, but im still thinking about legs…

[TheArtySquid]

Hi,

A very clean work. I’d add volume to the right-side sleeve : I don’t know if you’ve covered it yet, but it feels flat compared to the rest of the picture.

As for style, since you’re not going for photorealism, I’d suggest looking for ways to add texture and accidents to your picture, i.e make it more painterly. Right now it is high quality modeling, yet very smooth, not very “interesting” to the eye. At least this is my gut feeling.

Also, if the legs missing don’t really bother me, the empty background is really killing it compared to the effort you’ve put into the character. Dust, clouds, tone variation, … It doesn’t have to be highly detailed, but if nothing there catches the eye, it’s as good as empty.

[MarcinG]

ok, so here it is

final character:

[MarcinG]

thx for crit

I’ll check that sleeve.

Yes i know, this was hard for me to decide if i should go for photorealizm or for paintng.
But reference foto is not best qualit, actually what i’ve painted is better quality than that photo. Also im afraid that making this to look more like painting would destroy it. And i really like how it looks rigth now.

Yes i decided not to paint legs.

Im going to work on background now, i didnt decided what to do with it, but it think it should be something that will expose this character, not turn eyes away from it. I was relly intersted only in figure so i think that nice gradeient with texture will do.

I will put some close ups too, because this pictures are only 1414x2000. The real image is 7070x10000

Hi,

A very clean work. I’d add volume to the right-side sleeve : I don’t know if you’ve covered it yet, but it feels flat compared to the rest of the picture.

As for style, since you’re not going for photorealism, I’d suggest looking for ways to add texture and accidents to your picture, i.e make it more painterly. Right now it is high quality modeling, yet very smooth, not very “interesting” to the eye. At least this is my gut feeling.

Also, if the legs missing don’t really bother me, the empty background is really killing it compared to the effort you’ve put into the character. Dust, clouds, tone variation, … It doesn’t have to be highly detailed, but if nothing there catches the eye, it’s as good as empty.

[MarcinG]

Background done, all done

[MarcinG]

Some detailes: