International Portrait and Composition Month - Portrait Gallery and Crit Thread!!

[el coro]

Hey CA peeps! So I've been painting these heads for the past two years over at the NEXT GEN ATELIER...and I figure as a shameless plug for my upcoming head painting download, and in honor of CA portrait and composition month, I'd post some of them in here, to encourage you to do some yourself and post your paintings too!

***quick edit insert by Jason Manley: See the below post by me or click here to find out more about this months portrait activiteeeez http://conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2318098&postcount=3 ***

Head painting from observation is one of the most challenging things an artist can tackle. I have learned so much from painting people. I'ts helped me not just in my career but also in being able to say what I want with my art. You literally never stop learning new tricks when drawing people from observation.

So take part, see what you can do, and post them here. They can be whatever media you like , and as much as i can find the time. For those supporting the community with downloads--you will get dibs on crits and input. I'll be happy to answer questions and give some pointers along the way. So that said, let me kick it off with this dump of heads some self portraits and various other studies, all from life. I've posted a lot of these before, but I figured it appropriate to stick them in here as a way to kick off the next month of art making. Best of luck in all your portrait painting endeavors!
:yayca:

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[Idiot Apathy]

Can't wait.

[Jason Manley]

Holy moly man! Coro that is the most portraits I have ever seen dumped in one day. Ever.

It's on!!! International Portrait and Composition Month starts now!!! Fingers crossed and maybe we can get Andrew Jones going again on that which he built his fine art career on. Android? You in?

Any media. Any styles. NEW WORKS ONLY!! Self portraits, people portraits, hell...even pet portraits (as long as a person is in them!!). Faces faces faces faces heads heads heads heads. The head painting here on CA is going to get better. It is an area we can all improve in and with a good push I think we can see the artwork improve across the site. Please take your time and do a good job. This will not be a race but a nose down, face deep, exercise in outward expression of the inner soul, anatomy, surface, brushwork (or lack thereof), and media.

Since it is portrait month, those who pick up coro's upcoming download will have a shot at getting crits here too! Both Coro and I will be around to offer crits and input for those who are posting their work (those supporting the community will get dibs by picking up Coro's download and help us all have this place to share)....I do not have a whole ton of time but I have enough to help quite a few this month. I am working on something too...fingers crossed I will have enough time to finish it. Gotta try though. However, everyone here is encouraged to crit and help others with constructive, well thought, input and ideas. This will be a very active thread. No doubt we will all learn some things by August 1st. Want to learn with us?

Time to get started!!


Possible assignments:

1. Self portrait
2. Portrait of a member of the opposite sex
3. Portrait of a family member
4. Portrait of a person you are in love with
5. Portrait of a person who you wish was in love with you! :)
6. Portrait study from the great masters
7. Abstract portrait which communicates your inner self.
8. Editorial portrait of a public figure
9. Editorial portrait of a celebrity
10. Portrait from imagination (any)
11. Portraits of strangers (coffee shop, airport, or anywhere else)
12. Portraits of strippers! Some of you are old enough and are up for adventure. Go for it.
13. Portrait of the elderly (go draw at the old folks home! I used to do that when I was a kid and they love it and the place will say yes I'd think!)
14. Portrait of a child
15. Double portrait
16. Portrait of yourself as the opposite sex
17. Portrait of a famous artist.
18. Portrait of someone sleeping.
19. Portrait of someone who is of a race other than your own.
20. Portrait of a homeless person. (in honor off Mr. el coro himself!)


See you!!!

[Liffey]

I second that Android notion.

I'm definitely going to have to try and do some stuff for this. My portraits right now are nothing special, which gives me all the more reason to work on some. :)

[Huey Yeng]

Awesome stuff can't wait for it too. :)

[mc2mc2]

I'm definitely gonna post something.
This is too good to pass up :D

[ShroudStar]

Awesome! :) Can't wait to join in on this and give it a shot.

[KarylGilbertson]

booyakasha!!!

[HunterKiller_]

Shit. that's a lot of paintings. Beautiful stuff.

[Samuel Gray]

Always feel encouraged by you guys. This is great!

[velderia]

I should do this. It can't be that hard... and I need something to break away from what I'm struggling with now. Could be a great learning experience too. I'm going to make a mental note to try assignment number 5 sometime this month.

[Jacob Kobryn]

Oh sweet!

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/JakeKobrin/pribbleink.jpg

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/JakeKobrin/MendezPortrait.jpg

Neither of which were done this month... ;)

[Liffey]

Those both look really nice. On the first one though, the faces look too much like you applied a cut out filter to them (I'm not saying you did, it just leaves that kind of impression). Maybe go for something a bit more dynamic and organic next time you try that style, even if it's not precisely accurate.

Also, I don't know if you've already experimented with color on that second one, but a few well placed colored strokes could really make it pop.

[KarylGilbertson]

JUST finished this... woo! Yours truly.

EDIT: added the ref for better comparison/crits.

[Noah Bradley]

Oh my God, Coro, that's a friggin' amazing dump of portrait. Downright inspirational.

[reme]

cant wait! :) defineately will do the assignments :D

[Asatira]

I am game for this. I need to work on drawing (and hopefully painting) faces so I can keep the ones from imagination pretty fresh and unique. And building my skills would help a lot too.

[jigje]

Hey all. I'm a complete beginner (I did my first SP May '09) and my beginners scratches probably shouldn't be here in this thread but I want to collect the karma of at least trying and participating. I really want crits. In two months my drawings have improved only because of the kind advice Ive received on this site. I love CA.

This is a self portrait.

[TASmith]

Here's a portrait of an English student, from life. I know I messed up, but I feel crosseyed, trying to get all the proportions right. Crits appreciated.

Oil Pastel on paper.

[Jason Manley]

Awesome stuff....will be great to see the new stuff. The stuff done previous to portrait month is cool and all but now is game time! :)

So excited to see all the stuff coming...new work is what it's all about!

[sony]

this is very exciting! i wanna try.

[Jason Manley]

Oh I imagine if it goes well we can extend it! :) Portrait quarter...hmmm...portrait summer? haha! For now a month of focus should see some improvement around here.

[algenpfleger]

Whaaah, this is awesome! Freaking cool work Mr Coro! :D

[velderia]

Huzzah! I finally made time to do this... I wasn't going anywhere with what I was doing before. I said in my previous post that I was going to do Jason's assignment number 5 but I ended up painting myself:

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Notes: I have shaved eyebrows that are growing back... Sorry if this makes your eyes bleed. I have a birthmark on the right side - THAT'S NOT A MOLE. kthx. Someone actually mistook it for that once. It's also how people recognize me.
This was based off me looking into a tiny compact mirror taped to one of my speakers. It's not totally accurate since my chair was irritating my back, my desk is wobbly... The mirror slid down twice, etc. My mom recognized me instantly without me saying anything, which is a good sign because the last time I attempted something like this she didn't recognize me at all. o_o

[Jon Sun]

Heck yes! I'm totally in on this.

And, beautiful portraits Coro. Thanks for sharing. Can't wait for the download.

[Pezz]

Oh I imagine if it goes well we can extend it! :) Portrait quarter...hmmm...portrait summer? haha! For now a month of focus should see some improvement around here.

I was on quite the portrait kick for a long time, but I still need to improve especially capturing likenesses. Maybe we should have a Torso month :P I joke, I joke.

[purb36]

golden thread.

[erik-jan v/d schuur]

coro your the best man!!! this thread is awesome
iam going to make alooooot of portraits
its such a good training


this 1 i made yesterday
(acryllics)

greets!!

[Marko Djurdjevic]

Thank you so much for these my friend. You brought a tear to my jaded old eyes...

you're still the best...

;)

[Samuel Gray]

Here is my most current portrait from the past few days of a child being pushed into war.

No Choice.
4x6 feet on linoleum, charcoal/acrylic/spray paint.

edit: sorry its not after coro's post... just thought i would still try to get some critiques.

[MassiveDVD]

great works everyone! too bad it's not, "International Look What I Painted Last Year Month." :bashful:

That's not until September. :yayca:

[Jason Manley]

great works everyone! too bad it's not, "International Look What I Painted Last Year Month." :bashful:

That's not until September. :yayca:


LOL!!


Precisely. Please post work done beginning yesterday.


Thanks for the laugh aaron. haha!

[Tetrodotoxin]

Hey Jason, you could incorporate doing a portrait from the "draw from the what does everyone look like" - thread in your list...

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=152123

[Liz Edwards]

Jawdropping portraits, coro :D

I made a start with a self portrait. 2.5hrs or so, Photoshop from photo ref. I'll do something with ~colour~ next, maybe even non digital, oh my!

[AsaB]

Truly awe-inspiring work, mr.Coro! Consider my jaw dropped.

Same for the other work in here, great work everyone! :yayca: I hope to jump in too! Been too long since I attempted a proper SP, or decent portrait work at all in fact.

But I wonder, since there's only about a week left of June, if said Portrait Month won't extend into July? I need to know my timeframe :D

[Liffey]

You know other people have been posting portraits in this thread besides coro. I bet they'd like some comments as well.

hence >_>
Samuel: Really powerful composition, and I love how you rendered the eyes. I think you could make it even stronger if you added more depth in value to the clothing though. The contrast is there, just needs the shading to make it look like it's coming out of the background.
Liz: You captured that pose really well, probably would have taken me the 2.5 hours just to nail it. :| It'd be cool to see the hair rendered out a bit more. :)

[Devere]

this was done for an upcoming dog show. reference images where taken of my girl friends uncles dog by her younger brother for me since I'm all the way up in Canada at the moment and they are back home in Jamaica. 50 pictures taken but only the 3 best hand picked by her and sent to me. It's done in a very industrial design manner of me sketched out on newsprint copy over to my bienfang marker pad and rendered in prisma marker and pencil, using a more water colour approach to rendering. Wish I had taken a better picture of it but to late now since my pieces should already be on display in the show. Gonna start a self portrait of me right now and post that later.

oh yeah almost forgot get this his registered name is mafia bolt (as in Usaine Bolt the Jamaican runner that broke and set all the records in last years (2008) Olympics.)

comments and crits more than welcome. 2nd time using markers to illustrate an animal.

ok here is my first portrait of the day, decided to go or a little attempt at some chiaruscuro red CarbOthello and white nupastel on steel gray pastel paper. Doing Self portrait from life is allot more challenging than I remember. looking in the mirror and back on the paper I feel very Narcissistic.

[KarylGilbertson]

great works everyone! too bad it's not, "International Look What I Painted Last Year Month." :bashful:

That's not until September. :yayca:

C'mon Aaron gimme a break!!! I painted that shit right after reading the thread, I swear... I'm a good boy! :D :yayca:

[Studio Colrouphobia]

Read this thread and got inspired. Also managed to get my oldest son to sit (somewhat) still for twenty minutes, which is a herculean task in itself..

Didn't have good lighting here though, so he had to hold a candlelight, thats why the lighting is so gloomy.

Ps, tablet and strong nerves...

edit: yeah so...it is a 20 minute portrait. but please let me know what I did wrong and where I should keep my focus on improving. Unfortunately I took no photo of this sitting, I was painting directly from life, which was also one of the first times I did so in a long while..

[Ninjerk]

@Studio: Was there a light behind him in the distance (the eclipse-looking halo) or were you just defining where his hair was?

[Studio Colrouphobia]

@Studio: Was there a light behind him in the distance (the eclipse-looking halo) or were you just defining where his hair was?

Yes, there was a dark curtain in front of the window right behind him, but the light from outside came and hit his hair and his shirt. the light spots on the neck are me trying to compensate so one can see the outline though.

:)

[kikindaface]

Daamn, i planned to begin selfportraits in traditionnal painting, and this thread is the biggest motivation i coould have ! i'm a beginner with traditionnal media, i'll post my new stuff later ! Btw el coro, the lighting of your selfportraits are awesome ! You should explain or make a little tutorial about how to set up a good lighting for a portrait ) Thanks for your inspiration buddy !

[D.Labruyere]

great idea! :) let's see if everybody is able to do atleast 1 portrait everyday untill august,

june 27:
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june 28:
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Didn't had time to update yesterday, but these are the portraits of june 29. The most left is our lovely spaztasic.

so, june 29:
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june 30:
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[gorgnut]

coro download gave instant inspiration :]
imagination, ~2h
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[Brun]

A real quicky, 30 minutes or so, will do more for sure !!!

http://gorillaartfare.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sp-june-27.jpg

[Hookswords]

My no reflex zone

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From the dome

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These are a couple I did for the draw from the what do you look like thread thread

Grief

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GrandMassa Mr. Spect

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D'oh! A deer

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[Pixeltuner]

I'm in. Heads and faces are still a weakness. Gonna watch the Zang Lhu vid a couple more times and buying the Coro one as we speak :) Let's see if I can get some daily portraits going :yayca:
And Coro: Those are amazing!

[erik-jan v/d schuur]

portrait of today

(acrylics then oils)

[Bushido]

Love your paintings coro!

Alla prima 1h20

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=709812&d=1246220770

[Liz Edwards]

Awesome work everyone :D especially the traditional stuff. I'm gonna get my mitts on some oils tomorrow and see what kind of mess I can make :)

Mine for today - my nephew, from photo ref:

[Bushido]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=709971&d=1246233688

[Jacob Kobryn]

If you all need models may I direct you to this thread: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2728 :)

[MeTaL-Mike]

awesome!

[Kan Muftić]

Fuckn incredible what you did there, mang!
Big respect.

[DavePalumbo]

WOW Coro, the quality and volume is staggering! Awesome man, just what I needed to see this morning :)

12. Portraits of strippers! Some of you are old enough and are up for adventure. Go for it.

My CA SB is full of them, but I've got more on the way :D

[Jacob Kobryn]

Yeah... I'll have to skip that one. Sadly I don't have a multitude of stripper friends like Michael Hussar. ;)

[Saturns Gate]

What the shit.

That was some amazing inspiration right there Coro. Thank you! :) I will try and get one or two self portraits out for this, so that will tick off the 'draw a homeless bum' painting. :D

[Liz Edwards]

Another self portrait here. I tried oils for the first time.. erk! Its a bad photo I'm afraid, with the light reflecting on it, but its the best I can get right now:

[Soja]

Jesus I missed that!! Anyway I wanted to do one so here's mine!!
Pretty Quick like 30 mins or soo!! Crappy and yes i know i have nosedrills that are so big that they can suck of the world if they wanted too!!

[jigje]

Hey all. Just a beginner but I'm playing anyway :)

[The Pariano]

Heres a little self portrait fresh off the easel. will just be a warmup for the month :]
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg310/Chriskhaos/portrait.jpg

[Yngling]

Hah! I did a self portrait just a few days ago without knowing this. Will do more of 'em this month now.

[Fumble]

lovely portraits so far :D - im gonna join in - here is a self portrait from yesterday and a portrait study from the masters (of Benjamin Franklin) that i also finished yesterday. This thread is really inspiring, im going to make a portrait every day for a month :D

[cakeypigdog]

Awesome idea for a thread and fabulous painting mr Coro. I Really love your ala prima stuff.

[Newman101]

heres a little self portrait I did just now, after finding this thread. Awesome work going on here. Im going to be trying to do one a day for a while, I think, to see how much I can improve ^.^

About 2.5 hours

[Shard]

here's some studies after bargue,
i'm focusing on this way of simplifying shapes rather than the full renderings..
first row is 3 different attempts from scratch..i have the book on a side but i dont have a clue on how to measure this way. I think the third one is the closest..

bottom row was slightly less tricky, more of a progression of the same..

awesome stuff coro..really dig those colors/brushstrokes and the loose pieces!!

[Yngling]

New one! First digital sp, kind of rough but I had fun with the colours and I like to think I got the likeness as well. Hair could have used a little more love, but ah well, on to the next!

[Timothy Duong]

OoOo....i'm gonna try to get in on some of this.

[Rist]

Do these have to be observed from life? I would love to paint patrick stewart from life, but instead here is he from photographs:


oh and its acrylics, i hope that's okay?

I always find the nose the hardest to paint, the rotation of the head a close second.

Oh and I bought the hd-video probably on the release day.

[Liz Edwards]

Wow, gorgeous stuff everyone. I especially love your self portraits, The Pariano, Yngling and Sasha Perisic :)

Here's something simpler from me. Singer Yuri Shevchuk:

[alesoun]

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Acrylic. About 3 hours.

[zephyri]

Wow what a kick of inspiration! Will definitely try to find a spare hour in my day to take part in this! Coro your stuff is a real boot for me to want to get back into oils. I particularly like the smoother ones, reminds me of John Howard Sanden's work.


I can offer a recent topical portrait in the meanwhile, done over the weekend, in memory of MJ. Not from life, admittedly, hope that's okay. You can see the closeups on my sketchbook here: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2320506&postcount=313

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Tom Landry

[popeslattz]

Freakin' awesome. Frans Hals' got nothin' on you. I should be painting...
Part of my 5 minute sketch series. About 5X7" on wood panel.

Sorry for posting so large...

[DeKal]

well heres mine. wanted to try to paint it like an overexposed photo looks.
not sure what im going to do with the floating shapes.

thanks for being the man coro.
you too jason manley. your the man too!
:yayca::yayca::yayca:

[J]

damn those portaits are off the hook. Here's my contribtion. Whipped this one up today. Might fix a few things tomorrow. Mmmmmmm oils

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[arghmisfit]

here's a self portrait i did the other night, done with oils. sorry for the shiny photo, it was the better one of the bunch i took..

[Theking78]

This is the first portrait I did just after watching Coro's new video "Alla Prima".
I spent 3,5 hours in one session using Painter X and since I don't have the possibility for a live class I used a picture taken from the internet as reference. I let you guess the name of the model (little hint: she's the main actress of Transformer movie :))

If someone from MB will spend a little time to do a critics on this one I'll be very happy!

http://www.abboart.com/Photoshop%20Files/disegni/MeganFoxP2.jpg

[stephen]

beautiful stuff,
here's something, Bruised (unfinished)

[miljenko]

These are mostly from life, some from photos. Most of them are fine art done in oils, acrylics, charcoal and pencils. I'm interested in comics and cartoons, so I smuggled couple of these, too.

[Mick-A-]

I don't know if this is appropriate but I had fun doing this to myself. Actually putting together a series of horrorized portraits of my mates etc. I used a waccom in photo shop...and yes, cheated a bit to get my features right :P
http://i551.photobucket.com/albums/ii457/Mick-A-/MeZombie.jpg

[ajvenema]

my first oil portrait:)

[I0N]

Nice everyone is posting some great stuff!
Decide to try and be serious and do this in color instead of grey scale.
Heh haven't done one in awhile.

[RobRey]

I do a portrait every Monday night, they are great practice. My CA sketchbook (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=137055&page=5) has many more from the last year or so.
Here are two from last month, the most recent ones I have scanned.

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Hurray for portraits!

[CecelyV]

This is great! I definitely need to work on faces...they're harder to make up from your head than the rest of the body. I wonder why...

Question: Do these all need to be from life? I don't know a lot of people, and I don't have a whole lot of time because of work. Is it okay for this thread if most of the portraits are from the huge library of pictures I've taken of random people on the streets of downtown Austin? The rest would be self-portraits, my husband (if I can get him to sit still), and a couple other family members.

[beigeape]

Holy crap, what a thread! I'm about as tongue tied as messr Coros avatar.

Theres some amazing stuff goin on in these, really really fluent use of a brush, im struggling to understand how some of them can seem to be so loose and yet everything hangs correctly together, I'm thinking there has been many an hour doing tonals before this kind of color handling was ever possible?... dont think ill every truly understand. guess the download would be a good place to start. hmm 'nuff said.

Thanks to m'b for the thread and to imagine fx where I learned more about the following stuff

Here's my latest attempt, still got the same problem areas, structure, neck, eyes, modeling, but I learned alot with this one about saturation moving towards highlights as well as some pshop stuff like stacking median filters and blending modes on lowered opacity.

Since its portrait month I hope to coerce some family and friends into sittin still for a change so I can address these problems.

I'd be more than happy to hear advice, crits and comments.
like you all I'm here to learn and improve so feel free.
Have a good one.

Oh yeah, thanks to my bro for the place to crash while I worked on this. much appretiado a mhac.

[tmbritton]

Here's one from Sunday. Acrylic, 11x14, 1 hour from life. Finally found my camera after moving. Great thread all.

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[Tadas]

self portrait that I did today
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/4526/selfp.jpg

[Camilla]

OK, OK, I know. It has to be new stuff, but I will allow myself to break the rules this time, as I would like to present this particular painting. I hope I will be forgiven :-)
It is a portrait of my boyfriend made with oil paint on masonite (20x20 cm.)
This painting is one of the 50 paintings that have been chosen among more than 500 contributions from all over the Nordic countries to participate in a prestigious portrait competition held at Frederiksborg Castle, which is the place of the national portrait collection.
Needless to say, I am happy about this, so please allow me to brag a bit :-)
http://www.artcamilla.dk/paintings/RenePortraet.jpg

I haven't done a lot of portraits (shame on me - I really should) but a few more can be seen on my website http://www.artcamilla.dk/index.php?page=portraetter.html

[engelhardt]

Yeeeha - it's portrait-month! Great Idea! I just finished this one and hope for some critique and that more portraits will follow.
(# = portrait number this month ; a = assignment from Jason Manley's list)

[Jason Manley]

Honestly, my first comment about the portraits posted so far is that 9 out of 10 of the artists working have a glaring weakness in the understanding of form and structure. Mike Biereks download covers such things. Really...foundations are so key. The effort in doing these are completely admirable though.


I will tackle a couple of these shortly...but right now there are a lot of scrawling noisy marks happening in many of the portraits that do not apply to the lighting, or to the form and structure. Every single mark you make should be handled with form and structure in mind as well as inner soul. If the planes are facing the light source then give them light...not dark...if they are away from the light then put them in transition or shadow depending on where they are placed on the forms. Until these basic foundations are more heavily focused on growth will be patient...so please, the next set of portraits, pay attention to your foundations!!!!

[Liffey]

Dunno what's on that download (although I just bought it so I guess I'll find out in a few minutes), but I can guarantee you're not going to learn everything you need to know from a 60 minute video. What people really need to be doing is hitting the books and doing studies. Not to say don't buy the download, I just did and I'm sure it will be helpful... just remember to keep the studies going!

EDIT: damn, halfway through the Biereks vid, and I have to say... Jason's right, buy this thing!

[The Pariano]

Heres another from last night- don't know how I feel about it. Kind of eh
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg310/Chriskhaos/DSC_0034.jpg

[Saurus]

a friend and an ugly version of me as a kid...
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y113/yourjefe/NicknmeBboycopy.jpg

[Ted]

I hope this thread becomes something special to refer to...here's my most recent study.

[DanielC]

quicky before bed
partially ref-ed since i could keep the mirror up there the whole time... next one will be better i hope

[Kfeeras]

Long time no post here! Awesome thread!

Self P. and Gouache P. in my Moleskiney

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[addichim]

Here are some of the portraits I've done, some are old, some are new, the technique ranges from oil, pencil, to drawings made with photoshop using a pen tablet.

[jigje]

Who's the victim?

[Yngling]

'nuther one. Again I think the likeness is there, but there's something dull about it. Would appreciate crits, so I know what to work on.

[erik-jan v/d schuur]

`Yngling

hey i think you did a great job on it
i really like what you did with the beard
those small lines adds something..

i think if you do more strong hard lines like that in some more
places in the hair.., maybe on the face to

that it will become stronger and more interesting

experiment with it

greets
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new portrait
(acrylics then oils)
time to start on another one

[el coro]

wow some really good stuff going on in here!

`ej: check your drawing. i feel like theres a misalignment between the nose and the mouth. also, if you are painitng with acrylics, id mess around with lightly drybrushing with a short hair brush to get more subtle forms. acrylics seem to lend themselves better for this than for the alla prima approach ive found.

Yngling: these are all really good man! you have a great eye. on that last one id be tempted to dial down your shadow side slightly, and dont be afraid to mix it up and use different brushes to get different edges. you could get more convincing hair, as well as more intesting shapes on your forms by breaking it up and not using the round for everything. that said, i think all of yours that youve posted have been real nice. keep it up!

jigje: im tempted to think theres more top of your head than that. its a comon thing to want to focus more on the face, and give the top of the head less real estate, but be sure to measure! the eyes usually land on the halfway point on the head, but if factor in hair, it can sometimes be even lower.

addichim: i think you should think about accuracy. i feel you idealize your forms too much. look look and measure. once you put it down, measure it against what you see vs. what you've put in the drawing. be critical!

Kfeeras: that pencil is a little heavy handed. instead of shading it in, spend that time getting the shapes and proportions correct. i liek the lighting on the gouache study! cool colors. id try using a larger brush to help turn the bigger foms.

DanielC: looks pretty idealized. you have your work cut out for you since you see so clearly from your head. its almost harder for someone who can pre visualize to learn how to draw observaionally. but trust me, if you get good at it, it only helps push your minds eye higher by giving you increased accuracy and understanding, as well as plenty of new tricks. dont make shit up. look. its easy to make it up. its hard to learn how to really see. take the time, and measure. glad you posted in here daniel!

Ted: looks pretty good man! the shadow line under the chin feels a little harsh though. while i dont know what the model looked like, that transition is usually a bit softer.

Saurus: bigger! be more confident. get in there and make strong marks. and think about how you compose the stuff on the page. even for studies it matters. no reason not to work theose compositional muscles too.

The Pariano: feels a little flat. one reason is that your nose is at an angle, but theres still too much of the far side of your face showing. if your head is turned, even slightly, the far side of the face is forshortened. your cheeks are the same width in your painting, which is working to flatten it out. measure measure measure. its hardest to get those big forms correct sometimes since the brain wants to focus on details. squint!

Liffey: mike's video will teach you EVERYTHING you need to know :P

k ill try to do some more later!

great work guys!

[engelhardt]

The first portrait I did to day is still at school, so I will post it later. The other one is acrylics on 18x24cm canvas (about one hour); she is my cousin.

[Ninjerk]

Finished this last night. I think I took it a little too far on the right side beneath the eye.

[Liz Edwards]

Another self portrait, from a mirror

[FrontlinePs.10]

It is great to see everyone's efforts. Here's a couple of mine, both done in photoshop.

Self portrait:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Ph0t0Bug/selfportraitdigital5_resizeCA.jpg

My wife:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/Ph0t0Bug/Evanportraitdigital_resizeCA.jpg

Comments and critiques welcome. Thanks!

[beigeape]

heh folks, deadly thread,
Heres one of my bro, who I managed to convince to sit.For longer than he's used to, that is. I had a really hard time makin his eyes look in the same the direction, (not entirely his fault) which i dont think I managed. also making the mass of his head sit relaxed on his shoulders.(plenty of tea breaks. i blame) he's also funnier than he looks. He told me to say that. Mon frere, frendon borkan.
peas.

[SquareFace]

I am working on a portrait presently, and this is the most recent completion.

[Jska]

This is the first traditional oil portrait I've attempted in years. But firstly: THANK YOU for the fucking awesome DVD! I purchased it yesterday and have watched about 3 times since. Totally inspiring.

So here's my first attempt : me.

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I'm attempting to do one of these a day. :)

[arghmisfit]

another one

[Mihail]

I thought I'd add something to this great thread.
Some head studies I've been doing recently:
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[hotbox]

some awesom stuff on here. bit intimidating. heres my contribution. two of my favourite musicians. bout 2 hrs each

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg277/nigelwagner/bobDylan.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg277/nigelwagner/jimMorrison.jpg

[erik-jan v/d schuur]

el coro: thx for the advise coro!! you right the mouth is to far on the right
i went a bit to much into the detail on that one i think..
i use acrylics to start a bit then i go further with oils ,i like oils better
i wanted to experiment abit between those two..

#portrait of today

(mostly oils, a bit acrylics..)

[Liz Edwards]

Trying out acrylics:

[Osmus]

wow, what inspiration to be found here. thanks for sharing coro!

This is a sketchI drew the other day together with my son who just turned 1. He sat on my lap with a pencil and we both went at it at the same time, his first drawing and self portrait.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/osmus/KAYDEN1year.jpg

[Leonor]

Osmus, that's the sweetest thing. :)

[MattGamer]

coro, seriously you've outdone yourself. biggest post i've seen with
such quality. i was scrolling down and it felt like jumping off a cliff. i
didn't know when i was going to hit rock bottom. thanks for that post and
the others in this thread. very inspirational. ;]

[AndreasM]

Awesome portraits in here guys!
Did a sargent study. It's a little bit larger on the screen than in real life. Gotta stop drawing so small.

[Bushido]

Nice study Andreas! Like it

Heres a newone (Alla prima 2hs)
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=714603&d=1246672231

[Helltroll]

Self portrait I just did in acrylic, 1 to 2 hours.

[blau]

This thread is awesome
Here, a couple of days of studies.
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4656/20090704rostros.jpg

And a selfportrait. Took 1.15 hours.
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4242/20090704autorretrato.jpg

[gorgnut]

selfportrait

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[thebojan]

here is a portrait i did yesterday with photoshop

[SamC]

Portrait from photo
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[mc2mc2]

Bouguereau Study...

gorgnut: : awesome SP!
AndreasM : love that little sketch you did :)

[Saurus]

two self portraits.
http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs154.snc1/5732_752456139860_15923635_42909459_2493986_n.jpg

[Tadas]

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/8908/kkekdcopy.jpg

and a Sargent study
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/8420/sargent.jpg

[Mumph]

Wow, awesome thread! A study from photo and two self-portraits from me.

[Yngling]

Thanks for the feedback 'ej and Coro! I'm honoured:yayca:

Here's another, first tryout of Artrage. Great program.

[Bushido]

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=716145&stc=1&d=1246859475

[Newman101]

Heres another one from me. Not as good I think. But Its better than I used to do, so - Heres to getting better! ... I hope lol.

[beigeape]

Heh folks, great thread, great inspiration.
Heres a 2 hr master study of a self portrait Joaquin Sorolla Y Bastida.
Painted from as far back as possible the main inspiration being this guys fluency with a brush. One day maby. peace.

[Mumph]

A self-portrait and a portrait from imagination.

[erik-jan v/d schuur]

a master study of a sculpture from Bernini
Anima dannata

(oils)

[gorgnut]

my friend erik

mc2mc2: thanks :] that study is reaaallllly nice
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[Jska]

Because someone stole my camera at my artshow (ugh) had to do some smaller things that would fit on my scanner...

Here's Rachael from Bladerunner :)

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watercolor on cold press watercolor paper, approx 7" x 8".

[PT Osborne]

Self, oil on board, around 8" by 10" from photograph

[spikytiger]

Oil on panel, from life, approx 9"x12", added some digital sass on top for fun.
Needs a coat of varnish.

[dangermarc]

Some seriously nice stuff in here. Here are a few I did on my iPhone using Brushes app and my finger.

[arghmisfit]

more practice

[deadhead16mb]

wow great stuff all around. Here's a portrait of my uncle and the start of my favorite comedian, Jim Norton. Also here's a flask I did a couple of days ago for containing my Captain Morgan for July 4th. all are acrylic

[faedri]

The oil on canvas works are really tempting me to start working with that medium! Awesome portraits :) Sharing one I did using Photoshop.

http://www.faedri.com/blizzard/simpleviewer/images/Kymy.jpg

[sketcheth]

Oooh what a beautiful thread...man...that's a cool assignment sheet! I might just have to look into doing some of those...thanks so much for posting.

[the conjurer]

so i just started a portrait class and this will be the first time I've painted traditionally in years (how fortuitous my portrait class begins the same time as portrait month!) Closely studying Bridgeman, Hogarth and currently reading Richard Schmid's 'Alla Prima', here is what I have completed so far!

I also recently watched the female portrait tutorial and will hopefully be getting my hands on the coro tutorial as well!

This is an in progress 6 hour pose. I am 3 hours in and I feel like this is the best start I've had with a traditional painting! I am having a little trouble with the values though but I'm excited to finish it. Throughout the class, we will be having models with varying complexions.

I'm using acrylic on gessoed board.

All feedback will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[the conjurer]

also acrylic

I was really trying to focus on finding the planes of the face and the correct values...a little chunky

[the conjurer]

deadhead:

I really appreciate your handling of acrylic, I would like to learn to make it behave that way. Are these all from reference?

[Phereous]

here's a recent portrait I did

Limited palette. Burnt Umber, Terra Rosa, Yellow Ochre, Titanium White, Ultramarine Blue

[arealous]

Here's a quick sketch of my man Bob, image quality is taken from a phone though :geekg:

[yosephmiddleton]

Not exactly conceptual but free of canvas, paint, or tablet.http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/yoshitattoo/junebug2.jpg?t=1247029428

[cameron123]

Hey this sounds fun! Why not...

[micahhenrie]

Self portrait...as an old lady...with blue hair. Or maybe just some lady with blue hair.

http://micahhenrie.com/tmp/05-01-17_04Med.jpg

[nachoyague]

a portrait of a friend

[StephenC]

Ferdinand Porsche hour study

[Jska]

aka BohemianChaos ;)

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watercolor on coldpress watercolor paper, approx 8" x 10"

[DaveB]

Painted myself for practice. I really enjoyed your Alla Prima Portraiture video Coro! All the MB videos are really great. Very helpful. Thanks!

[Pierce9]

Here I am, rock you like a hurricane...
My first self portrait of many.

Everyone is freakin' awesome!

[Johannez]

jeez.. there's a lot of great, and some rrReally great works here!
makes me wanna paint!

some of my previous works

http://www.johannez.nl/content/images/271.jpg
"De Moslima van Vermeer" oil on canvas, 50x60 cm

http://www.johannez.nl/content/images/270.jpg
"Kok" oil on canvas, 140 x 170 cm

http://www.johannez.nl/content/images/274.jpg
"rachel" acrylics on canvas, 50 x 60 cm

..and a recent digital portrait, made with Artrage
http://www.johannez.nl/content/dump/salliefinal.jpg
"Sallie"

[craban]

My 4th oil and the only one i'm fairly satisfied about. This is actually from a tutorial DVD by Liliedahl called "pink scarf".

-Craban

http://users.telenet.be/strange-enterprises/art/PICT0029a.jpg

[zweiDee]

great Thread, nice Portraits. Thx Sir Manley to mail that! And coro you just a beast, too good!
That rly motivate me to doing some Portraits.

[crowe]

I haven't posted much in a long while, but I do love portraits.
Here are a couple that I have done in the last few months.
These two are life size when printed
http://polyfarmer.net/cpg/albums/userpics/10002/fleshchairflat.jpg
http://polyfarmer.net/cpg/albums/userpics/10002/meoncemore%7E1.jpg
This one is a bit smaller..30x20"
http://polyfarmer.net/cpg/albums/uloads/unknown1.jpg

[medicagotruncatula]

Wow, there's some really proffessional stuff in here.

Here's my contribution in gray scale, both are self portraits w/ mirror

[Azurelle]

I love doing portraits. This is why I decided to post some here.

I will start with some older ones, OK? :)
Almost all of my portraits show girls since this is what I am most commissioned for... and they must be pretty. Yeah it's not easy to get out of something once you've slipped in. So here are the old ones for the start now:

http://www.darktownart.de/img/GothicGirl.jpg
http://www.darktownart.de/img/AnneFINAL.jpg

:mod:

[Otto-Grainer]

Are you serious? Are all you people really all this insane? This is absolutely and ridiculously stunning work! I have no idea where you get such an magnificent talent or drive from.

Certainly no criticism or artwork to add of my own here, I am just wholeheartedly blown away by all of your work. It's absolutely stunning, I can not express how I feel. Yeah, so you're all crazily awesome artists. Thanks a lot for this.

[arealous]

Are you serious? Are all you people really all this insane? This is absolutely and ridiculously stunning work! I have no idea where you get such an magnificent talent or drive from.

Certainly no criticism or artwork to add of my own here, I am just wholeheartedly blown away by all of your work. It's absolutely stunning, I can not express how I feel. Yeah, so you're all crazily awesome artists. Thanks a lot for this.

While those are some nice words for everyone, I'm sure we'd rather see your stuff :lifedrawing:

[Vigilandus]

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=711203&stc=1&d=1246362299

[mickeymao]

This is a great idea. I was watching the documentary Blindsight, and in the special features was an interview with the director, Lucy Walker (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&um=1&sa=1&q=%22lucy+walker%22+director&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=). I was struck by her strange but cute face, so I paused the DVD and tried to capture her likeness. Photoshop, about 1 hour total

[Saturns Gate]

Lefran, our CA Resident. Was meant to post her as a half human/steam punk contraption of doom ages ago but eventually scrapped the whole piece (sorry Lefran!)

couple of hours tonight.

[Mumph]

Yesterdays and todays self portrait and a hogarth study, also from today.

[anjy]

So I took photo ref for this yesterday, just for this thread! I worked on this yesterday, and my intention was to do a really tight portrait. But then I looked at it today and don't care to refine it to the level I wanted, haha... So "sketch", it is. Ideally, it would've been nice to do one in front of a mirror, but I have no place with mirror, lighting, and comfort, working in harmony.

selfportrait, graphite in sketchbook (the posted image page size is about 8.5" across)

[bursac]

Hello everybody,

El Coro really made outstanding works. Congrats man!

I think that this is a great idea and I hope that many of very good skilled members will post here.

So, here are my works...

All the best to all of you!

Hugs from Serbia. :o)


Vladimir Bursac's Blog (http://vbursac.blogspot.com/)

[girlsarelikekites]

good stuff everyone. here is my first post ever on CA, a quick portrait with a splash of color that i painted well, right now. done in ps cs4, around 15-20 min. keep up the good work everyone!

http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv42/technicalstylez/portrait1.jpg

[Theking78]

This is my new portrait. Made in Painter in two sessions for a total of 4 hours.

http://www.abboart.com/Z-BOS/TyraBanks.jpg

[WyckdNick]

Well Coro, you've inspired me. Here is my first portrait... well a WIP of my 1st portrait. Believe it or not I've made to my senior year in art school and never done a real portrait... How the hell does that happen?

This is being drawn/painted on photoshop. Lots of low opacity passes to smooth. I've used a custom brush for the hair and nothing but the softround for the rest. I'll post the updates as I go.

Well here is the start of it.

[DaveB]

This is my 7th portrait in a row. I've learned a lot so far, thank you guys for posting, it's all very inspiring to see.

[engelhardt]

Three more portraits: the portrait I spoke of earlier in this thread, done with oils (30x24); a selfportrait with watercolour, and another acrylic one of my cousin.

[Mumph]

Todays self-portrait and a Sargent study.

[alesoun]

Does this count? I used my daughter as a model for my Newborn effort. Actual size of the portrait is about one and a half inches square....

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[Fumble]

another self portrait. The likeness is alright in this one.

[Azurelle]

I hate faires. Fairies, fairies, fairies :anime:

http://www.darktownart.de/img/JeliHorror.jpg

[jonbronx]

Dope Alla Prima video, CORO! Thanks for the insightful tips on what to focus on more
Done in Acrylics this past week. *(camera phone pix)
:painting:

there's some portraits on my blog as well!
http://jonbronx.blogspot.com

[Helltroll]

Just did this in the past 2-3 hours. I used watercolor(payne's grey) and white gouache, and linework/after-details with a few pens I had laying around

I need to do something thats not wizard with glowy-ball...I do them all the time!

[Jska]

This is the talented Mr. Phil Holland (www.phfx.com)

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Alla prima oils on panel, 11x14.
(Thanks for letting me use your picture Phil!)

[jubjubjedi]

There's something very Odd Nerdrum about those Coro portraits...

[Jasonwclark]

Good stuff in here. Way to kick it off Coro
Something I'm working on...


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[JellevdVegt]

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[Slash]

Did this as a warmup today. Its supposed to be Petitemistress.

Tried a completely different approaced on this, so its all sorts of wonky. But it was fun to paint from a low-rez webcam picture with all sorts of color artifacts and stuff.

[Mumph]

Yesterdays and todays self portrait and a hogarth study.

[PurpleSpandexYO]

Awesome work out there guys! :)

Here's one I did last night.

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/8841/lifepaintingcloseup.jpg

[arvelous]

Here is my portrait.

[pixelherder]

lots of really interesting work in here, so i thought i'd join in

while i was at it i thought i'd venture out of my comfort zone (photoshop and undo) and go back to purely traditional pencil sketching.

what an idiot

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/pixelherder/selfportrait01.jpg

pencils are the devils tool! *rushes back to photoshop*

[vaisak]

Great works everyone, hope you keep them coming!

I was thinking about making a self portrait just when I read this post! Gave it a try last night. I've been told the colours give me a sick look...sigh.
It tooks me about 2 hours in ArtRage.

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[Nike]

really inspiring thread! :)
Made me want to paint again after quite a long break...:)


http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=720502&d=1247262671

[Ted]

This was done last Tuesday night at a figure workshop I attend weekly. I look forward to seeing more posts.

[redroses]

Thank you, for answering. But this method works for me only with .. In all other cases I get only strange results, like those below:girl:
simulation credit immobilier (http://simulationcredit1.com)

[jubjubjedi]

She looks familar, might she be one of the Gallery Girls from LA?

This was done last Tuesday night at a figure workshop I attend weekly. I look forward to seeing more posts.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

3 hour Alla Prima portrait of my fiance. Check out the rockin' drawing error under the nose and on the mouth.

[beigeape]

yo folks, great to see everybodys efforts!
Heres mine for today, a 3hr detail study of William Orpens Man Of the West, aka, Sean keating, his student. I dont think I've captired the earnest intensity in this guys eyes but the resemblance is there I think.
3 hours is how long he took to the do the whole painting, what a bastard.
One rough oil brush at 100% opacity, trying to make tones sit one on top of the other up to the highlight, Aint gettin it yet but heh..next.
peace.

[wilkerson]

This is about 3 hours in photoshop, photo reference.

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[R E E]

It's been close to a year since I've painted in workshop. I haven't really had the time, nor was i inspired since by day all I deal with is black and white storyboards and directing 3D animation.
But, I'm always on the search for new things to learn. I've got about 10 of the tutorials/dvd/downloads. I've always been a fan of Coro's work...in particular his illustrations and figurative stuff...so I figured I'd add his Alla Prima to my collection.

After 3.5 hours of work this past Sunday at LAAFA, here's what I came up with:

http://www.hiphopolis.net/alla_prima_071309.jpg

I'd appreciate any critiques and comments from Coro as well as the board.

[R E E]

It's been close to a year since I've painted in workshop. I haven't really had the time, nor was i inspired since by day all I deal with is black and white storyboards and directing 3D animation.
But, I'm always on the search for new things to learn. I've got about 10 of the tutorials/dvd/downloads. I've always been a fan of Coro's work...in particular his illustrations and figurative stuff...so I figured I'd add his Alla Prima to my collection.

After 3.5 hours of work this past Sunday at LAAFA, here's what I came up with:

http://www.hiphopolis.net/alla_prima_071309.jpg

I'd appreciate any critiques and comments from Coro as well as the board.

[Jens]

a quick velasquez midget :)

http://users.telenet.be/NO1/Jens/sketch/velasquez1.jpg

[Newman101]

heres one for tonight. May have another one on the way. We shall see.

[Jens]

zorn newspaper readster :)

http://users.telenet.be/NO1/Jens/sketch/zorn.jpg

[Jens]

weird hat woman by raeburn
http://users.telenet.be/NO1/Jens/sketch/raeburn.jpg

[Jens]

raeburn archer
http://users.telenet.be/NO1/Jens/sketch/raeburn2.jpg

[cameron123]

Just when you find the time and inspiration to get after it, you get other stuff to distract you! Here's a start on my series of celeb portraits I've been meaning to do... this thread was just the push I needed to start.

I wanted to get a few more cranked out before posting but here's my latest contribution. Photo reference used, about 3-4 hours each, depending on how close I nail it in the first pass. I always come back to look with a fresh eye and find things I need to fix.

You guys think these are too tight? Seems like my loose stuff is better but I wanted to try some more finished pieces.

crits and comments please...:lifedrawing:

[Jska]

Tonight's portrait is of my friend Mendalyn!

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alla prima oils on panel, 14"x14"

[Jens]

repin
http://users.telenet.be/NO1/Jens/sketch/repin.jpg

[beigeape]

yo folks, todays effort, a rembrant study from crap internet ref, can never get the eyes to look in the right direction. buh!

[Yngling]

:p I did a Rembrandt as well.

[Jens]

pff this one wasn't easy, van dyck

http://users.telenet.be/NO1/Jens/sketch/vandyck.jpg

[quickreaver]

Heh...I sketched this one too. Gotta luv a guy in a frilly collar...

[girlsarelikekites]

heres a new one i did last night. no refs. http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv42/technicalstylez/head7-14.jpg

[deadhead16mb]

This coming sunday I'm going to be selling portraits at a craft fair and I needed examples of half hour and 1 hour portraits in both graphite and charcoal. These were both done tonight in 1 hour each. They are the Civil War rivals General William Tecumseh Sherman and General John Bell Hood.

[cakeypigdog]

great studies Jens!

[tokszmogus]

Hello there, I was waiting for Hussar's Alla Prima DVD with such pain ant there it is, Coro did it faster. That is such an amazing thing. Thank you so much, I watched those two videos many times. Don't regret spending my money.

So, there it is, portrait of my mom during her lifetime activity watching TV (24"x20", graphite pencils on paper).

[ASVogel]

I've been doing pencil studies in Corel Painter...finally got the hang of the pencil tool so it actually looks like a pencil instead of the "pencil" in Photoshop. Here is the latest. This is my grandfather in his prime taken from an old photo. He's been a cowboy in Wyoming, cavalry sergeant in WWI, and settled down eventually to be a railroad engineer. The man (as my dad would say) chewed nails and spit rust.

[AsiST]

the stuff in here is so awesome I feel kind of ashamed putting my scribbles here
but here it goes any ways ^-^

[Noah Bradley]

Did this yesterday. Probably 3-4 hours from life.

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Probably gonna hop on this master-study train later on. :)

[MattGamer]

lots of poo
josephus dyckmans study, 1.5 hrs
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[SlimmerCat]

Saw this and really wanted to try it, so I took a bunch of crappy photos of myself to try to do a real referenced self-portrait. I haven't been on CA for a long time but I really wanted to participate in the portrait-making :D

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IT'S-A ME. I used a new photoshop brush just to try something new, and it wound up looking particularly vector-y. I'll definitely use a different brush(es?) for my next photoshop painting.

[Jazz]

Hi!! I so wanted to show how I'm doing with a traditional medium, and a portrait. I did this self-portrait today. I used a long mirror! There was some sharp direct light above me and more diffused light everywhere else. Mom said I didn't quite do my eyes justice (awww, how sweet), and I was sitting at a weird angle... Ah well, I did improve greatly from the first one I've done. :D
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Just to show how I'm doing digitally, this is a portrait (from reference) of my brother:
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(I hope the pics are visible! Sometimes I make mistakes when adding images to posts! :P )

[irietpeshkess]

I really like the portraits that have been posted, I am adding a new one that I did of a friend

[HumbleHenk]

Thought I'd add my contribution to this lovely thread.

Evangeline lilly, atleast an atempt of her.

Steps can be viewed here: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=148199&page=4 or here http://twistmyflesh.deviantart.com/art/Evangeline-lilly-steps-129985628 for a larger version.

[beigeape]

heh humblelhenk, thats a painting? are you shittin me?..if it really is then that's the most subtle piece of work i've seen in a long time. maby you should try having a social life. tee hee.
heres my last attempt at paintin my pensive niuk for a long time.wuhoo.
peace, ray.

[sfa]

yeah! alla prima!

coro, your download was really helpful and fun! thanks for it! learned a lot~

so here are a couple of portraits from life this week using the ketchup and mustard palette haha! i'll add more soon~

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Another portrait from today, 3 hours.

[Mumph]

A caricature of my face for the DSG.

[Ted]

Here's another from my Tuesday night study...sorry for the skew, glare and need for retouch varnish.

[beigeape]

yo, a quick sargent study, wish i could a done justice to those come to bed eyes.

[walnut]

Okay, i'm entering the fray. Two oil paintings of my own face and one of my mother's, all from the previous week. Far from content at the time being, but i hope to do more in the future.

[Hellfire]

This a portrait I did for a friend.
He was trying to look like a furious barbarian or something. Anyway, he asked for a cool avatar, I kinda of like it. Photoshop.

[jigje]

As a learner, everything on this thread looks pretty good to me.
On this page alone JSKA, Jens, Beigeape, Yngling, Deadhead, Noah, Hellfire all outstanding and HENK!!! WHATT!!! You are unbelievable man. Thanks Henk for showing the progress stages for Evangeline in your sketchbook.

[shawnfeeney]

Lots of great stuff here! Here is a combined portrait I just finished of my friend Dave and his wife. General's charcoal pencil on Stonehenge paper, 8.5x11". It's similar in style to the composite faces in my BFF (http://www.shawnfeeney.com/bff.php) project.

http://www.shawnfeeney.com/img/sketch/41_daveannie.jpg

[sfa]

more alla primas~

anywhere from three to five hours from life~

[Ninjerk]

Good stuff sfa

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

3 hour portrait from school.

[jigje]

Another pencil - it's all I can do............. for now.

[engelhardt]

Really great stuff here!
My recent portraits: my father in acrylics; my mother in watercolour; my cousin digital; my father in watercolour; my sister in acrylics; and a digital pilot from imagination. I hope to get some crit.

[NicG]

My grandmother and mother from an old photo...

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[*ViRuS*]

wish I found this thread sooner....
great paintings coro, thanks for the download- it was awesome. got me using bristle brushes again for that sweet texture.

here's a self-portrait. graphite.

[elfigos]

Hi everyone....I'd like to partecipate to the Great Challenge...
I painted myself on oil paint..i used a canvas support built on a chassis
(sorry for eventual grammatical mistakes..i'm Italian! lol)
the measures are 30cmx40cm (11.8x15,7 inches)..
the subject is a little bit strange and also the colours used (i thnk however it's impressive and offbeat, that's why i like it!!).
(unfortunately the photo is not so good!-.-'')
HOPE YOU LIKE IT!!!! Puricho Aka Hellfigos :mod:

[Ninjerk]

Pretty round...

[Kuraudo]

Man, Coro is right. Painting the human portrait from life is one of the most difficult thing to master. If you can paint someone accurately in terms of proportion, color and value from life under a short time limit, then i bow down to you!!!

I love painting portraits. Have been painting in oils for six months now but i've only started doing portraits a couple of months ago. Here are some that i did at the academy summer workshops. They are two hour long paintings on 12x16 canvas.

[jigje]

This actually happened to me once.

[cylex]

I drew this from a picture

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/picture.php?albumid=924&pictureid=4552

[Main Loop]

Dont think ive ever posted this one here:

http://remtek.net/0/mainloop/default/images/19/423.jpg

[Mumph]

A quick one from imagination. Thanks for the video Coro and Massive Black! A lot of great information and hilarious too :D

[jonbronx]

Finished two days a go. 2-3 hours each day for three days.
Acrylic on Canvas. 30" x 40"

[Ademoye]

Man why didn't I see this thread sooner, even though it's over I wanna do it :S