March Proko Challenge - Stylized Self-Portraits with SLEW

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Stan Prokopenko

SLEW

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Post your process sketches and works in progress for the challenge here if you want feedback from the community.

This challenge is closed for new submissions. Congrats to all the winners!

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Abhinav Bhardwaj

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3yr

When is the result coming

Andrijana Stantic

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3yr

Hello! My first time posting. I created this in Procreate.

Joe Arsenault

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3yr

exquisite Work!!🤘🖤

Kai Amos

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3yr

This is an acrylic portrait I’ve made of myself within the past 2 years or so! I’ve actually just made a sudden decision to leave college to try and better my mental health. I’m hoping it reignites my passion again to make more work and become an amazing artist. Just like SLEW!! 🖤

AineNiBhaoill

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3yr

Self portrait, oil painting. Finding the eyebrows and eyes quite hard to do but shure look.

Charlene

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3yr

This is just a quick digital paint over to test out dappled lighting. I'm not sure if it's too much at the moment. Constructive critiques and opinions are appreciated!

Jay Desma

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3yr

Debated sharing this before it's done but oof this hand is killing me 😅 it's my own fault, I did this to myself. Need to add detail to the hair line, brush and finish the hand.

Charlene

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3yr

This is really interesting. I like the colours chosen like the blues for the shadows and that sort of mottled look. The hand looks mostly good!

@nady

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3yr

Me.. soft pastel… I appreciate any comments for improvement.. thanks#prokochallenge

@paper

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3yr

Hello @nady,I quite like the texture you use with soft pastel but the biggest problem I see is that you made the shoulder area too small and hand too small.Here's an overpainting if that helps. Anyway,best regards on winning the contest :D

Charlene

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3yr

This is my attempt at oil painting so far. I'm going to add some detail to the leaves but I'd like some constructive critique on pretty much everything - Composition, light and shadow, clothing folds, face planes and anatomy. I look a little bit like a zombie so I'm debating whether I should just undo the the yellow eyes or not. I was going to go for dappled sunlight but I kept hating the effects and wiping it off so now I just look dirty but I guess that's suiting. Anyway, please give me your thoughts!

Johnathan

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3yr

I think the light on your shirt is too cool, since your light source is the warm sun light. I can see the light and shadows on the leaves and skin tones play on some warm and cool, but I can't see that on the shirt. Hope this helps. Good luck with your entry!

Barbara Lentes

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3yr

On composition: I feel the small preview landscape format works better than the original portrait format. Maybe sth in between would work too, so you see more of the clothes and accessories. Are you going for a blurry effect on the leaves or are they unfinished? Where is the main focuspoint? There is a lot going on, is she in the bushes and just by accident we see her? Maybe then I would darken the clothes/edges or lay some shadow over them so it guides the view to the faces and stunning eyes.. if it is the bloody mouth, or the moonstone, you can guide the viewer with shadow/ light and focus/blurryness for example. I hope you get my ideas, since my English is maybe not exact enough. All in all great idea and good work alteady!

@iamjihye

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3yr

I started yesterday, this is my first self portrait painting. Any tips on how to make it look as real and organic as possible? I don’t have the money to buy art supplies right now, so I need to get a similar look on digital. Thanks for the help 😊 Ps: Also, this is my first challenge. Wish me luck 🙈

Charlene

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3yr

Ditto the advice from paper - I think you're off to a good start! The shadows and face anatomy look good so far. The textured canvas helps - makes it look like an oil painting.

@paper

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3yr

Honestly the way you paint it digitally,already look like watercolor.So my only tip is keep going and finish it :D

Barbara Lentes

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3yr

Selfportrait is growing, it is watercolor. Any helpful advice welcome. Thank you all.

Charlene

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3yr

Interesting choice for a self portrait! I think overall your anatomy looks good and I like the shadow shapes in the hand. The only thing I can think of critiquing is that maybe you want a darker shadow to be able to separate the left hand cheek/chin from the neck but that's it.

Max

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3yr

Hey guys, I’ll show you some progress of my self-portrait painting. As you can see I started with black and grey. Next I’ll will go in with very dark and saturated colors. Everything should be dark and mysterious. Hope u like it so far, pls give me some critique. Cheers Max

Joe Arsenault

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3yr

Daaaaang this looks so good! Can’t wait to see the finished piece!!🤘

Max

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3yr

Thank you Charlene for your advice and thoughts. You’re totally right with everything you said. I overpainted the lower part of the painting since it didn’t feel right. It didn’t match my idea that I had in mind so I reworked it. Next steps will be to correct the anatomy and glaze everything so the background and figure will be more merged in together.

Charlene

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3yr

Ooh I like it. I like all your sketches too. My main critique of your piece so far is that I feel your shoulders look a bit too small and rounded to match your head. I'm also not too sure if they're too low and the beard is obscuring where the shoulders should be to you. I've also noticed the composition is slightly off centre in what I feel is an unintentional way. I think for this piece you're better off having your face dead center. I hope you find this advice useful.

@sukhwinder

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3yr

@sukhwinder

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3yr

My self portrait compositions

Abhinav Bhardwaj

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3yr

This my sketch for the final painting. I focused on stylizing the structure and shape design elements of the head . Pls feel free to give advices

Charlene

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3yr

Your sketch looks good! Looks like realistic proportions to me. What sort of advice are you looking for?

Paweł Witiak

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3yr

Hello, I know that the challenge is about self-portraits in color, but I'm primarily an inker, so I decided to post my pen and ink drawings. I also include a quick painting study of my reflection in the mirror.

Joe Arsenault

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3yr

Holy trap the black and white version pops out and STANDS out! Well done on each of these!🙌🤘🖤

@squarala

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3yr

I'm digging the gray one, it has a Deep look

Charlene

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3yr

Your inking work looks amazing! I love your cross hatching style on toned paper. The painting looks alright but the eye in shadow needs to have some darker values in it as it gets lost in the rest of the shadows of that side. I think there could also be some darker shadows around the nose on that side.

oliver lindenskov

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3yr

I decided to do a ‘full’ under drawing for this one. Any comments on shadow patterns would be appreciated, as the reference has a ton of ambient light making it flat so I had to invent quite a bit to get some interesting shadows 😊 good luck guys

@iamjihye

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3yr

Incredible! For me it’s perfect, but clearly you’re more experienced than me. Just by seeing the sketch I can see that your painting will look turn out great. Good luck!

Charlene

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3yr

I really like all your sharp planar angles and shading. I had to kind of invent and exaggerate the shadows on mine as well as it also had ambient light. I think your shadow shapes look great. I'm guessing your main light source is shining down from the top let hand corner?

Noemi Cassin

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3yr

The series I worked on this year is called Reclamation, and speaks to the idealisation of the female body. As recognised artists have predominantly been men, inspired by the female body and therefore projecting their gaze onto it, I believe it is important for more women to be recognised as Artists and for them to define their own bodies. La Femme - always mystified, elegant, sexy, the artist's muse and effortlessly envoutante - is almost stripped of her humanity and deified. Women are first and foremost human beings, who shit smell laugh cry fight jump run fall travel speak read eat play in other words live. And their bodies are first and foremost vehicles for them to experience life, and as such they stretch bend bloat change and adapt. In this series, I aim to reclaim my (female) body for what it is: a vehicle of life. Neither an object of desire nor mystical femininity, simply a vessel which allows me to exist in 3D and try out the "human experience". Nothing less, nothing more. https://www.noemicassin.com/work/reclamation

Joe Arsenault

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3yr

Wonderful caption and crazy good work!! Keep it up!🖤🤘✊

Charlene

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3yr

This is just meant to be a study before I do the main thing. Lol I look like an evil psychotic polka dot clown. If I could please have constructive criticism on anatomy, face planes, light and shadow and shape design. I'm aware the shading is messy as this was meant to be a quick study before the main event. Graphite pencil on cartridge paper.

Joe Arsenault

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3yr

Stunning!!

oliver lindenskov

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3yr

I love the concept and the intensity! Personally I would probably unify the darks more, to separate them from the lights. I believe this should also make the lights seem brighter and more intense 😊 so, for example I would darken my right side of the nose.

@joeltergeist

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3yr

This is a quick digital study. Can we final submit multiple entries?

Charlene

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3yr

Nice - just so you know this section is the work in progress section not the final submission page. But yeah you can submit multiple entries there aren't any rules against it.

Charlene

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3yr

Some thumbnails of ideas I'm tossing around. Any constructive criticism is welcome!