[CrazyFrazee]

I can't say this is my first work, but I will say it is the first I am proud of at any level. It took me... 5 hours, maybe? I didn't want to watch the time, because I knew I would get impatient.

I really did it to learn color selection, and I did learn a lot. Was from a reference. Some of the anatomy is off, and his smile creeps you out kinda, but I feel like I achieved what I was shooting for.

Feel free to CNC, or not, whatever. Paintovers are fine. I wouldn't post if I didn't expect that.



May mother art bestow her blessings upon you all.

[Matthew]

hello

A little bit hard to give crits without seeing that ref you worked with. I don�t really like to give crits since I seem to hit the wrong nerve everytime I do but since you asked for crits and comments I am gonna try to say some words.
You seem to have hit the nail in the detail but the whole painting seems flat and with that bright green background it all becomes a little bit difficult to look at. Perhaps that background was that green in the ref but when it comes to paint it -it is good to give the background a little more variation. If you look at those portrait paintings they have a more of shadowed background. With a green background you should see more of the red in a persons face when directed at us if one follows the rules of complimentary colors. Also hair has shadow in it so in this case if one looks at the throat the light direction seems to be from top left which gives the hair shadow from our right.

Check out the tutorial section in the digital art discussion if you want which gives a lot of good advices. ok I hope you found some of my rambling helpful and I hope I wasn�t to harsch here, if I was beat me up after this text here. We are all learning and I am myself having a lot of trouble when it comes to paint faces.

see you
Matthew

[CrazyFrazee]

Thanks Matt, I appreciate the feedback. I agree with everything you say. The background was a poor color choice, yeah. I stopped working on the piece when I felt like the time was right (gave it all the time it deserved, I felt), and that unfortunately left the background unfixed.

Now that understand the composition of faces a little bit better, I will probably be able to do something like that faster, which will help keep the work fresh.

Thanks again.