Hey MindCandyMan!

[John P.]

Originally posted by MindCandyMan
Yeah man! Get loose!...make a couple paintings and don't undo anything...give yourself 1 hour to do the painting. Go crazy and don't hit the undo button once...that sounds like fun hehe!

I tried to follow your advice tonight.

Ok, so I didn't get totally loose, but I tried to do what you said, so:


Photoshop 7.

One single layer.

No undo's.

About one - two hours.

No reference.


And I turned out this:



http://home.online.no/~johmoe/art_portfolio/paint_test.jpg

(30% of full size, but I painted it at 50% of the canvas size)


The other thread kinda bombed, so I thought I'd start a new one. Hope it's OK. Wasn't sure I should even post it here, but it is finished(as a fast painting goes), so...

Am I getting closer? Not quite happy with the ear, but... no ref, so...


Forgot about the Speed Paint forum. If this suits better over there, feel free to move it. Or if it just plain sucks, feel free to delete it.

[Yaseck]

the ears are too high. And the whole face looks kinda flat (a bit). Maybe it's a matter of time.

[Phalanx3D]

Agreed the complete lack of contrast makes it very cartoonish, very flat.

-p3d

[MindCandyMan]

Hey John P. I was away all weekend so I didn't see your post...I'm glad I caught it! I have to say John P. that you are definitely heading in the right direction with this. Don't worry if it looks flat at this point...that wasn't the point of this painting. The point wasn't to make a finished piece to display on your wall it was to stretch your brain in another direction. You are DEFINITELY pushing in the right direction. Look at this one...it has so much more life in it than the previous ones you posted!!!! One thing I do agree with is the lack of contrast...the reason I bring it up is because take the same boldness you are applying with your strokes and approach your color choice in the same manner. Try to do some paintings where you only use two colors red and green or something like that...or orange and blue. I would try a self portrait and use a big brush...use a huge brush (in ps or painter) that you can't work the details with. Use something that smears the paint. Do a self portrait with one or two colors and use a big brush. Keep the brush the same size and don't zoom in for details. Just keep that same big size and do your portrait...shade the whole socket for the eyes...etc... I would be interested to see how that turned out. Now tell me the truth...this one was more fun wasn't it?...doing it more freely especially since you didn't UNDO once!!! Great stuff man. You are pushing in a good direction...follow it!

[John P.]

Thanks for your good advice. :)

This was a whole other way of working than I'm used to - instead of undoing or erasing, I just painted over what mistakes I thought I did along the way. More risky, but more fun. I'll definitely try it out some more. My next piece will be made like this(if not I don't think I dare show my face here again :p)

It's amazing to see how some peeps around here manage to make a scene work without almost any details in it at all. So I'll try and adopt some of that.

:waves:



(wow - what a butt-ugly wave smiley! :D)

[MindCandyMan]

I can't wait to see it. Yeah you are right...and I am really drawn to paintings where so much is expressed yet so little is painted...those are always the works I am drawn to...jeffrey jones is a good example. I look forward to your next post.