Frans Hals charcoal study. Feedback would be very welcome!
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Leon ter Molen
Dear Prokos,
(I feel there should be a name for users of this community ;) ),
This is a study in charcoal of the painting "Laughing boy" by Frans Hals. I always feel joy when I see the orginal portrait (on view in the Mauritshuis in The Hague). I think that my study is quite rough and could use some more work on edge and shape design, and likeness I see now. But I am really curious what your feedback would be.
Thank you for your time!
Cheers,
Leon
Hi! I'm in no way a professional artist so take what I say with a grain of salt ( I'm pretty sure that's the saying haha ) but I wanted to mention a few things I noticed while viewing your piece!
First of all, I love the way you drew the hair and shirt, I think it looks really good. Some issues I noticed with your piece is that the face is too thin, this in turn makes all the facial feature look too big compared to the reference. Furthermore, some of the details in the drawing seem too focused upon, especially the smile lines. I feel like if you blend them out a bit more accurate to the study ( if that's what you are going for ). Overall, I think that the study was really strong, especially with the lighting ( which I think you captured well ). For next time, I think I would focus more upon the initial proportions so that the rest of your features in the drawing falls into place.
I hope this post made sense and this helped even if it only helped a bit! Have a great day :))
( Also I totally agree that there needs to be a name for the community haha )