Portrait Lady

#1

This my new WIP

This is going to be potrait of a girl sitting on a chair

and this is finished picture

#2

I see you’re not closely following reference here.
The drawing so far is structurally weak. You need to concentrate on anatomy. Copying photos ‘verbatim’ does little to develop general drawing/painting skills that allow you to create your own images successfully. Why did you crop out her foot and part of the chair? Inexperienced people always seem to fall into the trap of wanting to show as much of a subject as possible within the frame, and as a result make sacrifices by lopping of parts of the subject to force it to fit into the picture. You need to consider the framing at the same time as you consider the composition. You can make this work by showing all of her and the chair.

#3

Leg and chair is croped on the photo :slight_smile:

But dont worry i’ll try to draw it by my self

#4

So you automatically think that’s a good thing? :slight_smile:

#5

That is a really bad idea. This is exactly where most inexperienced artists fail.

Read about the dangers of cherry-picking from references: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=7242955#post7242955

#6

I think I can manage to draw one foot and a half of a chair.

I hope that drawing foot and leg of a chair is not that hard :).

#7

And you still remember what happened the last time you tried to fake something on your own (the viking piece)? So many artists fail at drawing feet that it’s not even funny. If you are not an advanced artist who has a strong grasp of anatomy/figure, then don’t try to fake anything–you’re just not ready for that.

But of course, we are assuming you are aiming for quality. If you just want to have fun and don’t care about depicting bad anatomy/figure, then it doesn’t matter what others think–just do what makes you happy. Just remember what when you show your work publicly, people are going to comment on it.

#8

Your right abaout Viking, but that piece was almost hole made from my mind from the beging, when problems started then I used reference and that was the problem.

Then things was much better with clint but i wasnt happy not using my photo.

This time i have good photo, but not perfect, but its mine.

So im going to give it a try :slight_smile:

#9

update with legs

#10

adding colours

#11

so, what do you think about the legs?

#12

any crits?

Quadart, Lunatique what do you think?

#13

What should people criticise when you’re following a photo? Imo the outer leg of the chair is too short and the pose of her right foot is looking stiff - no joke.

Personally i have some doubts also about the other foot, the cut of the shoe is rather off at the heel, but if you say it was a photo then… let’s see what’s happening there.

#14

It’s generally not a good idea to painted entire isolated areas like that while leaving the rest of the image blank without any values/colors. You have to plan your entire image with tonal composition and block in the overall values and colors to get an overview to make sure everything works together, then you work on the next level of detail, and then finally the micro-details.

#15

That’s right, I forgot about this.
I went to much detail on this level.

#16

So u say, i shloudn’t ask for criticise when I use photo as reference?

Can u please tell me more about right foot, I dont understand “right foot is looking stiff”.

#17

Meant more that it’s tricky to say anything when someone is using a photo ref. When suggesting this or that, the artist will refer to his photo, suggesting that the suggestion was crap. Who wants to compete against a photo? An other little problem is that no one wants to insult the depicted person, who might be someone close to the author. So you see the problem with photos generally (aside from discussions about the learning effect with photo refs)

“Stiff” means not moved, not involved in the overall pose, and not affected by the environment - like when having iron bars built in.

Your photo is anyway not ideal to complete by imagination because it has quite an extreme wide angle perspective, which is most difficult to draw. Try to ask the lady again to pose for you. Here a roughly done paintover to show what i mean, but not meant as reference at all(!):

#18

ok, now i will work on detail

#19

Now I know what you wanted to show, and I was almost sure that what you draw was better than mine :bowdown: .

But When i show what you draw to the Lady, She whanted pose again…

And this show that your drawing was actually wrong :surprised. Left leg is bend over right leg knee very high and thats why it is almost impossible to put right foot leg on the floor like you draw. Ankle would be broken :).

I’ve coreected stockings seams little bit - maybe now this leg looks more natural to you?

Anyway Thx for helping me whit this.

#20

ok, only foot, shadow and chair datails to go, rest is finished, I think :curious: .

I have worked on beckground and composition a little too.