Any tips on Portraiture when using photographs

[SrStewart]

Im just curious if anyone can recommand or link me to somewhere i can find a place to get some well constructed portraiture using photos and even life drawing ones too.

thanks!

[jrr]

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/
james gurney's blog has everything you need to know about anything art related.

[Roncko]

JRR your link is very important. Good tutorials.


:steph:

[Xeon_OND]

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/
james gurney's blog has everything you need to know about anything art related.
Fuck that, I say! Thanks a lot! :D;)

[Flake]

Any tips on Portraiture when using photographs

No flashlit snapshots. Front lighting is usually bad, it will flatten features and make your job more difficult. Buy a spotlamp or use a window.

Try not to use photos taken by other people unless you can't avoid it.

No cheesy grins. Ever, unless your second name is "Hals".
Grins in a photo look alright as we intuitively know a photo is a snapshot of a split second.
A smiley snap translated to the more formal media of painting will tend to look like this..
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Refuse, resist, do not do it.


/studenty 2p worth