Master Copy Workshop

[darkos]

After William Whitaker's tutorial
http://orchidlan.free.fr/images/20081124_demowhitaker.jpg

[dorian]

darkos: hope you don't mind: "Always use the biggest brush possible. Then put it aside and pick the one two sizes bigger." :) Using a brush that's too small (I do it too often..) we're setting ourselves up to loose structure and wasting time dabbling around mindlessly when we should be thinking about what exactly we're trying to get with each brushstroke.
Also - I'm sure by coincidence - it looks as if her hair is about to catch fire :]

[GriNGo]

stefd - great studies, i specially like the one with red lines at the bottom! expressive..
mark malone - great! maybe the coloring is too "plastic" looking... but it's a good start.
dakros - i love the boldini study... i like the mood and strong contrasts a lot.. I think your whitaker copy has some work to do keep on posting.
dorian - thanks for all those tips!

Copy#1 Kind of old, I posted it about a month ago in my SB, but I'm reposting here so you can check it out & crit if you want. It took me a while to do this one (about 6-7 hours), and didn't do it in one sitting, but in the span of a month.

Copy #2 I did it today, in about 4 hours. Please crit & tell me what you think. If you want to see a bigger version of this one, check out my SB.

All done in PS.

[Monika Gruszka]

can i join you? :)

I love copying old masters! Its a great way to learn:)

1 - Sargent study - less than 10 hours i think
2 - Rembrandt - 3-4 hrs
3 - Greuze - 2-3 hrs

I hope you can give me some adivice and crits! :)

[mark malone]

Another Quickie....This time Mucha.
Painter.

Thanks Gringo for the comment, I appreciate the feedback!

[applecheeks]

Sargent study. The time taken was about 2 hours.
I was trying to treat the face as having planes at first but it was quite hard to see how the shadows described the shape so in the end I just ended up trying to get the tonal relationships right.

[The Pariano]

The only thing I can see is that her left eye is a bit too small, and the shadow under it is a bit lighter than it is in the ref and the general eye shape could use some tweaks- thats all I see. Great work :]

[applecheeks]

Thanks Almighty Christ! That left eye gave me a lot of grief. Her nose is too long as well, but I decided not to cut and paste since it's more interesting to note that mistake in the future. :)

[ben adelmann]

pieta

[Lawrence Humphrey]

A bit quiet here for the past month, maybe we can get things moving again.

After Sargent:

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/1606/p1030015lq6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Lawrence Humphrey]

Another one after Sargent.

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9973/p1030027vf8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[ani-mason]

Hi guys, I have a Question,

Im looking for da vinci figure drawings, head drawings, anatomical drawings etc... to copy from but i cant seem to find a book (similar to the dover series) that only have the illustrations. The only ones i can find are those thick $60 books with glossy pages and giving emphasis to text. On google, the quality isnt always great.

Can anyone recommend a practical da vinci book to draw from or website?

BTW this is the master drawing i copied in my first year of SVA.

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/dbe240b7fb.jpg (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/)

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/3bcec65a8a.jpg (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/)

[TheDrunkSniper]

http://galleryofart.us/

search for him. i think they have the whole collection.

[EightArms]

also try Dover Publications-- cheap books, usually they've got a good selection of images vs. text though.

[GriNGo]

here you go.. each took at least 8-10 hours in Photoshop. The fifth study is looking awesome... will post soon.

[GriNGo]

Here it is... opinions? crits?. The comparison is below... i uploaded an earlier version of it (incomplete legs & feet). All in all, it has taken me about 6 hours to do this. More to come soon...

[dorian]

gringo, looks pretty good!
there are some shape issues in the overall gesture (mostly position of hips relative to the rest) although the smaller stuff looks good, shape-wise
also the cast shadow on the wall is quite a bit too wide, I know it's not the main element but I think it's good training to be diligent about every part when doing a copy
values seem decent, a few things are slightly off here and there, lower legs, ground plane, bottom right of bg, hand, bg to the right of chest area, etc.)

for shapes/proportions, I found what really helps is looking for and checking these two things:

big angles (such as shoulder to hip on right outside of the body)
horizontal & vertical alignments

small thing I'd probably change is the very digital smooth look it has right now by just adding some texture with noisy brushes or the noise filter

looking good overall, keep it up! :)

[BubbaGump]

Here's some quick Michelangelo copies:

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/7583/416k.jpg

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/737/415h.jpg

[Karein]

This was a painting I had to do for school, it is the first time I have ever attempted a portrait in anything but oils. It's a Rembrandt study, which I felt I done ok on, but I managed to make some of the colour a little too dark, and a few other things are wrong, but I am happy for a first attempt. Oh well, it's all about learning :)

[quartertofour]

Hello,

this is my first post on the forum.

It is a copy of Michelangelo's "Holy Family" I made a few years ago.

Made with 2B & 4B pencils, but didn't count the hours...



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[GriNGo]

gringo, looks pretty good!
there are some shape issues in the overall gesture (mostly position of hips relative to the rest) although the smaller stuff looks good, shape-wise
also the cast shadow on the wall is quite a bit too wide, I know it's not the main element but I think it's good training to be diligent about every part when doing a copy
values seem decent, a few things are slightly off here and there, lower legs, ground plane, bottom right of bg, hand, bg to the right of chest area, etc.)

for shapes/proportions, I found what really helps is looking for and checking these two things:

big angles (such as shoulder to hip on right outside of the body)
horizontal & vertical alignments

small thing I'd probably change is the very digital smooth look it has right now by just adding some texture with noisy brushes or the noise filter

looking good overall, keep it up! :)

Hey dorian!
Thanks for the comment.. I wish I had seen it sooner.. it would've helped me a bit in my next copies. I try to be as diligent as possible in my studies, but I also try to make it as fast as possible. I have to find a good balance between the two I guess. About the "digitalness" of it, I try not to hide the appearance of digital too much, so people can see the "medium" I used.

Here are the rest (and last) of the copies I have don ein the past month and a half (so far). It feels fantastic to keep on making them! Next up is a Bonnat study.. color.. a painting of an old man. Digital as well. I'll keep you regulars of this thread informed.

[Doug Fletcher]

GriNGo-
where did you obtain the drawings of Mariano Fortuny Marsal? I would like to use them
for sight size drawings to copy. Great work on your part! People don't understand
how difficult digital painting really is. Keep it up!
Doug

[Delmus]

I just finished reading a book about the girl with the pearl earring, and I remembered I had done this a while back. It's close, but not satifactory. The human face can be a bit difficult for me. I think to the contrast is too high in the photo as the end of her nose has washed out and dissappeared.

[QT Melon]

Sargent study, using the Sargent Brush in Painter.

[Lawrence Humphrey]

Beautiful work, QT, 90 hours well spent.

[Jamie Romoser]

First time posting in this section this study was done about 2 years ago.
Not sure if this might be fit for this section but to me Frazetta was a master.

heres the process shots last scan looks ugly
done with 2h and a .5 hb mechanical pencil and 2b

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[a la bapsi]

nice job so far, omertA.

[GriNGo]

Looking fine omerta!

[Zazerzs]

"Frazetta was a master."

Is. :) He's not dead.

[Delmus]

"Frazetta was a master."

Is. He's not dead.

Did you see the tv special they had (TLC?) on him and his work? it was fantastic!

[ggnastist]

Frazetta is a master. I had done one copy recently myself.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2611/3891447971_5ce2f616ca_b.jpg

Charcoal on watercolor background. (converted to b/w in photoshop)


C&C are welcome.

[ggnastist]

A new Master Copy. This time, it's a rubens "Head of an Old Man 1609"

Reference: http://www.art-liquidation.com/Images/Rubens/Head%20of%20an%20Old%20Man%201609%20s.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2488/3892560978_67520fdb58_o.jpg

[dashinvaine]

Miniature master copy of 'Destiny' by John William Waterhouse, painted in about 1900 when Britain was fighting the Boer war in South Africa. This copy is oil on board, 20x25cm (8x10 inches).

I saw the original recently at the J.W. Waterhouse exhibition- soon to close- at the Royal Academy. http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/image.asp?id=9643

[Muscari]

you guys are doing an awesome work with those frazetta pics.

honestly i didn't know who he was before coming to this thread, and now i can't get enough of him :P. plus i always wondered who did this image, and now i know. might actually try a copy of that one

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn92/roblareub/frazetta.jpg

[Artificial]

Great thread!. I really like the style of Matisse, so a few copies of his work.

[Sidharth Chaturvedi]

Ooh, awesome thread. Here are some master copies of mine, all are from the last 3 weeks. The grissailles were much shorter paintings for class, the Velazquez I did on my own. Not entirely pleased with it, I'll have to redo it sometime in the future. The drawings are all copies of plates from the Academie Julian.

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=779837&stc=1&d=1253148129
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=784637&stc=1&d=1253589770
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=784639&stc=1&d=1253589843
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=773494&stc=1&d=1252469630
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=773495&stc=1&d=1252469652
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=781983&stc=1&d=1253348145
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=781984&stc=1&d=1253348169

[cubesoflard]

Here's some Wyeth, Eakins and Eastman Johnson.

Cheers

[danlucas]

I love this thread!

[Eddieee]

Here's some Wyeth, Eakins and Eastman Johnson.

Cheers

Good stuff man!

[Eddieee]

Hey guys, here's some Sargent

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/5730/patmore1.jpg

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8443/67171895.jpg

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/3633/17420341.jpg

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3056/capricopy.png

[bagshotrow]

Not my usual medium, but: Luca della Robbbia's Madonna of the Apple. Graphite and watercolor. Mostly experimenting with watercolor, but also trying to understand some things about reflected light and those gorgeous faces of his.

[Eddieee]

Edward Hopper's "Gas"

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/2325/78152361.jpg

[Selina-Mei]

I'm working on the Mona Lisa atm!

I know I know..the most famous and well known painting in the world.. mmhmm..

Well I got told to do it, and wanted a challenge.. I like this thread alot, so I'll be posting soon! :D

Thanks

Selina xx

[Ale Greghi]

Study of a Velasquez painting called "Juan de Pareja". I did it in pastels, to learn the use of colors in portraits.

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs25/f/2008/183/2/d/2dc08b99f8f06eca356008808d1be754.jpg

[Rommen]

Study I did from a Rubens ink sketch that never became a painting. It has no online reference from what I have found. The drawing was water damaged, and is no longer in my possession unfortunately - can't finish this one :(

[cubesoflard]

Finish it! Do It Know!

[Rommen]

Finish it! Do It Now!

Mine? I'd love to, but the best I could do is start again (it was damaged, and I had to cut it down a lot to repair... so I just got rid of it to a relative) - which I could do, but I am working on other things now. I have another master study I am doing that I will be finishing soon though.

[CentralUnrest]

Here's a couple photos of the same painting (just to give one a better idea of the colors).

This is a study from William Bouguereau's painting "Gabrielle Cot."

Oils on Canvas
32'' X 39''

[Mindbendermind]

A beautiful painting (must admit I haven't seen the original yet, just heard the name).

How can I have missed this thread?! Learning from the masters is something I just loove.
Am currently working on a Rembrandt study in color pencil. Will of course join in as soon as it's finished. :)

Any particular strategies you guys use to make master studies as valuable as possible by the way?

EDIT: Just remembered - can always post my latest Frazetta study meanwhile. Done in pencil some weeks ago, main purpose to learn more about male anatomy and how he applies shade:

http://community.imaginefx.com/forums/storage/737/277917/FrazettaStudy.jpg

[pauloricardo]

I would like to contribute with a pencil work I have done, using Pieta of Michelangelo Buonarroti as reference.

I hope you enjoy, any commenst are always welcome....

[overkilldex]

I make this copy of William Whitaker inspired by his tutorial
about oil paintings technique. I use wooden panel with
white preparature mixed with raw umbra pigment, Windsor& Newton
bristle and sable brushes from 3 to 6 size. Oil colour finest quality of
Schmincke company, oil of turpentine, Siccative de Haarlem with
alkyd resin and Mussini 1 mediums and fineally matt film (varnish) also from Schmincke.
Thanx once again to Mr. William Whitaker for his tutorial

[The~Tramp]

Prudhon
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini by Baciccio
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[gpalmer]

I already posted this in my sketchbook, but hadn't found this thread yet. I've been told for years that I needed to loosen my work up, and have had real trouble with it. I figure it doesn't get much looser than Frazetta. The end result could use work, but is still a vast improvement, IMO.

Paint Tool Sai and a little photoshop
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=986617&stc=1&d=1275013206

Frazetta on the left
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=986618&stc=1&d=1275013275

I have a very long string of progress images, but I'm not sure what the etiquette for posting them is, as this isn't a thread of my own. Is it acceptable to post something that's going to take up most of a page? For now, here's a link to the big progress pic on my own server: http://gracedpalmer.necropolisstudios.net/pics/frazetta/frazetta-tutorial.jpg

[surus]

Greg: Very interesting process with the grids. Thanks for sharing all the steps!

at all: I hope to see more master copies which are "reduced to pencil". Mastering the form in pencil is in my humble opinion much harder / more difficult than describing shapes and shadows with different colours. I did also some Frazetta pieces in my Sketchbook, but I am levels away and I'm looking forward to achieve your's in a few ... (?) years. :) Keep on posting, guys and girls!

[gpalmer]

Greg: Mastering the form in pencil is in my humble opinion much harder / more difficult than describing shapes and shadows with different colours.

Interesting - my trouble is in doing it in color and with light and shade - line is far easier, as is black and white.

[Artificial]

I've been working on light values using black and white. This painting is amazing.

[Black Spot]

I'm sorry that many of the early pictures in this thread are no more as what's been left if great. This year I've done a load of master studies in PhotoPlus and found it's helped my drawing in other areas no end.

Hals - this is the only one done on one layer
http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=868310&d=1262341792

Frederick Sweerts - Boy in a Turban with a Posy - not a total success
http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=885397&d=1264092850

Bouguereau - loads of scribble from me
http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=893063&d=1264945532

Ingres - total bitch to do
http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=906091&d=1266172502

and finally Leon Jean Basile Perrault
http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=922025&d=1267773504

Everyone should be doing these.

[Gronin]

Hi everybody,

There is my first post here.
This is a copy of a portrait made by Gustave Courbet in 1844 untitled (Juliette Courbet's portrait).
To make it i've used a solid graphite pencil.
Any comments and critics are welcome.:)

[dashinvaine]

Pencil study of Edmund Blair Leighton's 'The Accolade'.

[Jamie Romoser]

It sure has been awhile since my last update in this thread
lets get this moving again :D

here are my studies in the past year
~Caravaggio
~Sargent
~Monet
~William B
~Gerome
~Ingres

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[marina_koleva]

very inspiring thread, I have some works to show, but nothing spectacular as you can see :)
2 old works, done with Photoshop CS2:
Rembrandt
http://picbg.net/u/17146/35905/434531.jpg
Goya
http://picbg.net/u/17146/35905/434530.jpg

And 2 from the last week, done with acrylic and gouache:
Perugino
http://picbg.net/u/17146/35905/493141.jpg
Original (http://imagecache5.art.com/p/LRG/29/2948/CYMRD00Z/pietro-perugino-madonna-and-child-with-st-catherine-and-st-rosa-1493.jpg)

http://picbg.net/u/17146/35905/493142.jpg
Original (http://www.ronaldecker.com/perugino_Small.jpg)

[Fabio]

bringing on my studies with a copy too now, and also my first post ever in CA, thanks to you all for your inspiring posts!

copy from Jeff Jones, 50x70 cm, oil on prepared forex board

[Gonzo]

George Inness copy. Original here:
http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artwork.php?artworkid=5739&size=large

[seili]

I love seeing what you all are doing here! Master studies are awesome.

This is a Frazetta study I just finished. India ink on bristol. This took me about 2 months, 100 hours...but so worth it!

Original: http://frankfrazetta.org/viewimage.php?loc=frank_frazetta_bw_lordofthejungl e.jpg

[Cory Hinman]

This study of Courbet is about 2 years old, just before a hiatus from studying under Jon Lockard, a portrait painter and muralist who had mentored me for 5 years previous. For our final semester he assigned me to to work on this master copy for the month remaining to the class. I'd never worked so concentrated for so long on one painting, an amazing experience. I worked soft pastel on velvet grey Strathmore charcoal paper, 19"x25".

[Artificial]

Nice to see what others are using for practice

[georgemandela]

I guess I should come and ask you if you meet the requirements? They will hire you, like any other job would be based on your skills if you meet the requirements and are able to do the job. It is impossible to know how much you want a competition unless you ask the company itself. I always assume that competition is huge it motivates me to do my best.

[Spivak000]

Here is my study of a Raphael torso study. A study of a study! Its from Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters.

Done in charcoal but the pictures makes it a bit blurry so its almost like a digipainting.

[SweetPea]

I'm pretty sure thats a pontormo; I have that book. Good study tho

[Spivak000]

Ahh you're right Sweet Pea. Raphael is the page before. Thanks for correction.

[Ator]

Gericault copy

[Ator]

here are some more copies, stretching back a few months, in chronological order...the collective experience has altered my approach quite a bit, and I'm continually surprised by it's impact in the life room. The last two are unfinished

[Spivak000]

Hey Ator,

Great to see you are copying from the same source material as myself. Good try on the Gericault foreshortening one as its a difficult study, but it looks like some angles are off. I would check that left arm again and try to match it with Gericault's. I do however get a good underlying sense of the structure in all these drawings, which I needed more of in my messy Pontormo study. I'm learning more and more that you have to be a real natzi with perspective and structure in order to draw like a Renaissance artist

By the way, where does that last study come from? Is it a Rubens?

[Ator]

thanks Spivak! I liked your pontormo copy, it possessed the movement and vibrancy of the original, and the form looked great. and hey, Pontormo strikes me as a pretty messy draftsman himself! I just found a nice pontormo that I'm copying as I write this, Its proving tough but enjoyable...the figure has about six nipples because he corrected the forms so many times! i will double check the gericault. I'd actually like to try it again, i feel there is probably a lot more I could have accomplished with it. The last copy is one I just started this afternoon, it is a Rubens, his copy after the Laocoon. My first copies were really slow, but I find that I'm beginning to hammer through them more and more rapidly with some new techniques. I'll try to update here regularly.

[SweetPea]

Good stuff guys keep on posting in here. Ator you should make sure that you draw from life a lot too And if you get a chance, read Cennini's book; it's full of great things to know

[Ator]

I resolved the Rubens Laocoon a bit more...probably going to let it rest for a while.
thanks sweetpea, I'm on winter break from school right now, so I'm drawing primarily from reference as of now. I found that Cennini quotation in the book Artists on Art. much of the selections there from his writings struck me as timelessly pertinent and attractively objective, very much a mainspring of artistic practice. I'll be on the look out for the complete book.

[Defenestration]

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Acrylic on cardboard.

[sfhdweb]

Thanks everybody for sharing great info

[Henkelangelo]

This is a pencil drawing on an A4 paper of a black-and-white photography of Michelangelo's statue "Moses".

http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman02/4d782089b93d1_Namnl%F6st-1.jpg

Here is the photo i copied:

http://www.moshereiss.org/messenger/06_moses/michelangelo_moses.jpg

[Ramon Hurtado]

Hi everyone! Here are some acrylic studies after Boldini. More soon

Boldini master studies

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e155/panchosimpson/blogposts/opt/IMG_6297.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e155/panchosimpson/blogposts/opt/BOLDINI2.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e155/panchosimpson/blogposts/opt/BOLDINI1.jpg

[Ramon Hurtado]

Also, I posted a video demonstration of me copying a portion of Fortuny's Viejo al Sol
See it here!
http://partnersinpaint.blogspot.com/2011/03/painting-demo.html

[James Turner]

A study I did a while back after Norman Rockwells "Freedom to Worship" A4 graphite on bristol board...about 5 hours I think. Did it as a exercise in drawing wrinkled faces and hands
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[kloakatriposa]

I didn´t know Boldini O_O Pretty inspiring!

[mcarmbk]

This is a copy i did of Andrea Del Sarto's head of the Madonna.

[Inkomi]

@panchosimpson Those are simple wonderful such movement and energy, its nicely captured. Keep up the good work.

@mcarmbk, that looks very good. Only thing I notice is around the bust it seems to have gotten darker than the original. Keep it up.

Here is a charcoal study

[john-briner-art]

The first one is after Annibale Caracci and the other is a copy of Karoly Ferenczy's painting

http://menyhei.exceed.hu/forum/faunos.jpg

http://menyhei.exceed.hu/forum/kohajitok.jpg


Both looking great! Very interesting watercolor art! I like the ideas that you make in doing such art! The colors are good as well. keep it up.

[Jansi]

Wow, what a beautiful thread!
QT_Melon: your Sargent is just perfection itself. I wish I had a 'Sargent brush', you don't seem to need one!

Here are some of the studies I did recently. Incredibly insightful!

A Bouguereau - 'Êtude Tete de Jeune Fille', a J. S. Sargent - 'Tramp', and a Winterhalter - ' 'Princess of Wales' (which I am still working on), [UPDATE] and a Roka (not sure what the name is, he did a lot of these)


Best of luck and inspiration to all of you,

Ana

[Artificial]

Photos by phone, so the image quality is poor

[Pilbeam]

Hey,

This is my first master copy attempt and first post here. I've been lurking for awhile. I'm not done, just wanted to get some feedback since I've done the face and I'm not totally happy with it, but not sure why.

[ClassicalGIRL]

Ok heres a couple of ones from me ... I mostly love to study these guys , they knew their stuff !!! and then some ...the first is Mr Bougereau's 'Êtude Tete de Jeune Fille' - Oils on canvas a study of H Drapers Water nymph! ~ and the last needs no intro in my book : ) Really nice works going on in this thread!!

[Black Spot]

Philbeam, the angle of her eyelid (lashes edge) should be more horizontal.

Here's one I didn't finish that I did last week.

http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1263290&d=1309018790

Close up - I scribble a lot.

http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1264213&d=1309116316

[MIKETAYLOR]

Master Copy

[Pilbeam]

Thanks Black Spot! I think that's exactly what's wrong. I just couldn't see it. :)

[Artificial]

Phone picture quality is poor. When i've fixed the last details I'll make a picture with a camera.

[ClassicalGIRL]

Artificial - Wonderful copy , curious is this digital or paint ..?

[Artificial]

It's paint. I'll post a better picture as soon as i've finished some more details (curtain en jewelry). Working up to madam x here.

[Twin_Bear]

I was 15 when I drew this, I'm 17 now. It took 5 hours I think.
http://i51.tinypic.com/iz2rv6.jpg
no idea why it was framed, my parents were proud I guess. I don't like it that much.
http://i55.tinypic.com/2liynq0.jpg
and the reference, by Michelangelo
http://i56.tinypic.com/25gfas7.jpg

[KElyas]

What a great idea for a thread. Here's my copy of Philippe de Champaigne's Vanitas with skull, hourglass and tulip

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[MacTire]

Really great thread here! Here's a study I did towards the end of last month, Sargent's portrait of Monsieur Carolus Duran.

[Splode]

Photoshop mastercopy of a Sargent painting. took around 1 hour 30 mins.

[cadu]

i liked the contrast, the lines of the hole and the lines and the construction of the details, the render - without words...we have so much to learn from all these drawings if only we realize it.

[Dreamwanderersoul]

I love making master copies in pencil. In the future I will attempt oil. These are a couple of drawings from the last two weeks..

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b92/thisascension/jgvjf.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b92/thisascension/fgsdfsd.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b92/thisascension/ibk.jpg

[yboo]

Some studies of details from Caravaggio.. using Derwent pencils and minen lead:rendered:
http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/3770/44265675.jpg

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/9626/c2theraisingoglazarussm.jpg

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/3783/denialofstpeter.jpg

http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/1582/theentombmentofchrist.jpg

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4996/deathofthevirgin.jpg

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/4729/betrayal11.jpg

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/60/takingofchrist.jpg

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/6642/stmatthewandtheangel.jpg

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/7725/quickstudy.jpg

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/1244/sstfrancisinmeditation.jpg


Thanks for looking all c^c welcome:}

[yboo]

Some studies of details from Rembrandts in pencil

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/9057/passingtime.jpg

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/811/rembrandtstudy.jpg

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/9246/smaninarmour.jpg

http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/811/rembrandtstudy.jpg

http://img863.imageshack.us/img863/5118/rembrandt.jpg

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/3916/manwiththegoldenhelmet.jpg

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2826/lucretiah.jpg

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/322/img3951pb.jpg

all comments and c^c welcome:rendered:

[yboo]

Study of detail from a Guido Reni

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/9451/sdeianeiraabductedbyace.jpg

[yboo]

Some Norman Rockwell studies...

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3623/anna2l.jpg

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/2276/freedomtoworship.jpgg

[yboo]

Study of a figure from a Leon Augustin Lhermitte...

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4262/studyofafigurefromaleon.jpg

[yboo]

Frazetta study...

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7861/frazettastudy.jpg

[yboo]

Study of a Helene Schjerfbeck...

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/5684/portraitofaman.jpg

[yboo]

Study of "Messalina", by Henrique Bernardelli....

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2492/messalina.jpg

[yboo]

Study of a Jeffery Jones..

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5121/hunt3.jpg

[yboo]

Study of "la femme accoudee", by Fernand Toussaint....

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9002/studyoflafemmeaccoudeeb.jpg

[yboo]

Some more Caravaggio details...

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/9364/caravaggiostudydetailfr.jpg

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/3518/aftercaravaggiocharcoal.jpg

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/4186/studyofdetailfromsupper.jpg

[yboo]

Studies from Mucha..

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/2729/anothermucha.jpg

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/5664/muchai.jpg

[Lawrence Humphrey]

My gosh Yaboo all your hard work is really paying off.

[yboo]

Hi Lawrence :) well, the thread said master studies :)

[Lyraina]

Nice to see this thread still alive, I enjoyed looking through it already quite some time ago.
Here's my attempt, hoping it will help me with skin tones.

Bouguereau - Head Of A Young Girl (1898) (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_%281825-1905%29_-_Head_Of_A_Young_Girl_%281898%29.jpg)

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[Jansi]

A Schreyer, not aiming for accuracy.

[000]

Jansi that is really good! The picture is really powerful.

I attempted a Sargent master copy yesterday but couldn't even get the basic shape of the face. :( I will try to sketch it out in pencil and try again, though.

[joannaswan]

noob here: is there a thread of actual copy the masters assignments? If not, someone should start one. I'd love a weekly tandem post, focusing on various styles and masterworks...
thoughts?

[Sencer Aygün]

Reproduction [detail] of Tiziano Vecellio's;
"Portrait Of Francesco Maria Della Rovere Duke Of Urbino"

Painting duration: 4.5 hours
Painting process video:
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[ironchicken]

In case you dont know it masters studies week. There are a lot of studies being posted in this thread (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3429051&postcount=3714). Come on and try.
Here are two studies I completed in the past few months. Both are copies of Abram Arkhipovs works.

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[Lyraina]

noob here: is there a thread of actual copy the masters assignments? If not, someone should start one. I'd love a weekly tandem post, focusing on various styles and masterworks...
thoughts?

I like that idea, don't know if something like this is around yet...

A Young Peasant Boy, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1763) (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/masterscans/greuze-young-peasant-boy-mid.html)
A bit older, tried to only use the hard round brush, no smudge or custom brushes.

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[joannaswan]

So here's my latest master copy. It's after Edouard Manet's "The Balcony" (detail), 1868-69, Oil on canvas, Musee d'Orsay.

I used pastel and then a bit of acrylic to blue out the background. I was also interested in Betty Edwards' color assignment that has you using only complementary colors plus black/white. So I tried using mostly green and red for that reason.

Crits? Comments?

PS: can someone help me figure out how to resize my attachment? sryz...

[Lyraina]

PS: can someone help me figure out how to resize my attachment? sryz...

Why don't you just resize it before uploading? I don't know if it is possible afterwards...


Link to original painting by William Clarke Wontner (1916). (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mX94yVHB_CI/R2sKaUcLceI/AAAAAAAABWY/TrS7SJBeobU/s1600/Wontner_William_Clarke_Valeria.jpg)

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[Sencer Aygün]

I tried to make a copy of "Peter Paul Rubens - Two Satyrs" [with oils].