Morgan Weistling
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Award winning fine artist represented by @legacygalleryart in Scottsdale AZ
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Shawn Laughlin
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20h
added comment inAdding Half Tones Part One
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I started adding some the half tones. Its still very posterized. I knocked back the highlights in the hair and darkened the clothing some. Now the face looks maybe a little bright. It might be ok after softening the transition from halftone to shadow. I think its maintaining the likeness (?) The nose needs more structure.
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you are doing quite well. Don't worry about the posterized effect yet. Your likeness is intact and this is a good setup for what is to come. The highlight on forehead is a good key for the lightest plane on head. As you later work that into the surrounding lighter values around it later, it will really have a nice egg principle glow. You need to now mix a little darker halftone to meet the edge of shadow as you get into the stage of edges. One of the issues that many are running into is that they are painting this head over a period of days. I painted the demo you watched from beginning to end in two days of filming. The paint was still wet. So if this had dried on you, rewet with more paint at the edge area as you start to soften edges. This is why it's nice to have your colors premixed in little jars.
Dominik Albrecht
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3d
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I primarily want to thank you for taking the time to teaching us. You are an awesome instructor with so much knowledge combined with a great personality! There is so much to get better at as a complete beginner! So many opportunities to learn it is very exciting! Just learning to control the pencil is so interesting.
If you have time I leave some thoughts here:
If you had your own school, when would you introduce if at all more knowledge? Like you said I thought about where I would like to see myself, and what speaks to me most is the imaginative realism of scenes like your western paintings or works of past masters like Repin for example.
What trajectory would you suggest for students who are self educating? Personally I would do a lot more drawings like these taking lots of time and do self critiques on them... For example the right eye here is really whack... I want to avoid becoming too "enslaved" to my reference but also to avoid the pitfalls you so clearly outlined about letting "knowledge" lead to formulaic drawing. I have seen Head Layins with a more three dimensional approach and wonder about their place in the big picture..
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1d
Thank you for saying so. Your drawing here is coming along nicely. Not sure why your paper is so wrinkly though.
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1d
Background is fine
Shawn Laughlin
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2d
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1d
This is a good set up. The eyes are a little weird, but overall you’re getting it.
@peterh111
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2d
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Went back and did a few grey scale paintings for practice. Used reference for the first and third. The second was made up
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1d
I appreciate that you have been very careful to not let your half tones get too dark here. Good job.
Shawn Laughlin
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6d
These are the skin tones I came up with. I don't know if its my monitor, but the light looks a little cool to me. I went from warm shadows to cooler lights. I tried to keep the colors close to what you are mixing with your limited palette. The lightest light is probably way to light, but I think the rest is ok.
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4d
should work. I think.
Shawn Laughlin
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6d
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This is digital. I'm going to try to do the entire course digitally and pick up what I can out of it. I did this with a grid and drew a lot of it upside down. I then put the reference over it, and turned it on and off to show where the glaring errors were.
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4d
try and think more about he two families of shadow and light and how you can keep each family separate but tight nit within each group. You should be able to see it very clearly in your drawing in a small thumbnail image. It shouldn't look all disjointed.
Debra Rank
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7d
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This video about finishing touches is really helpful Morgan. Thank you.
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6d
So glad it helped.
@mnk
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8d
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I gave it my best effort to really keep checking the drawing while painting and I think it kind of worked, I cant spot anything major right now.
I think the hair is somewhat poorly painted, i struggled going back and forth between too much blending and not enough. If someone has a tip let me know :D
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7d
You’ve done very well here. What you’ve described is always going to be a struggle because I know I still struggle with it. Knowing just how much brushwork to keep to give a pain in life is something you just have to learn through experience. But I can tell you that there’s more leeway within the light areas that are not touching the shadow or looser brushwork. That’s why I go thicker in those light areas and allow my brushwork to show. You’ve done a good job with your edges and you would never want random rush work to disturb them.
@fepampeyan
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11d
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Here's my sketch and painting. I think I need sharper charcoal sticks. I really enjoyed painting this darling little girl., It's not as easy as you make it seem. But I hope to do more children.
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7d
Nothing is as easy as it first seems, but I think you did really well. The only thing that’s missing is a little more attention to correct drawing and there’s nothing major standing out. It’s just a lot of little accuracy problems but when there’s enough of them, they add up. But you are very close here and hope you feel good about what you’ve done so far.
