Touching Your Darkness

[260171]

http://www.geocities.com/ivy_surya/touching_the_darkness4.jpg

GENERAL INFORMATION:
Title: Touching Your Darkness
Year Created: 2005
Medium: Acrylic
Surface: Paper
Dimension: 400mm X 500mm

MY COMMENTS:
For this painting I was inspired by a roadside beggar in the Hyde Road area. It is an industrial area with growing numbers of giant redundant factory shades and jobless workers. It is a world of Dark and dusty allies and old walls and off course the beggers...............

I would Like to know about mistakes.
Is the colour of the skin and the sky OK?

[JaneM]

Not bad, it's got a nice feel to it. :) Still, don't you think the colours are a bit gray and dirty? Maybe try to paint with cleaner colours?

[260171]

Thanks JaneM but the colours are intended to be dirty. It is representing a dirty world and not essentially something beautifull.

[PERKELE]

hmm. I think the moon light should have bigger effect on his skin colour, and the colour of the light should be cold and the shadow should be warm. and the wall and the ground is same colour as his clothes.

[Pixeldragoon]

What is he sitting on?

Also, the sky: The color is "alright" If there is like, a city around him, but I think youshould go over it again using only horizontal strokes. You painted it in like a box, I can tell, but for a surface like that you want to have consistent strokes.

Personally,I think you need to use more solid colors. It looks like you changed the color for every stroke on the pants. Other than that it's pretty alright for what you were going for.

[rasdasa]

Hey, is this the one you started a few days back? Good to see you've got it finished and paid attention to some of our crits(a'la Moon light)

On we go,
The skin color is alright(especially since it compliments the sky), although I greatly doubt it would be so illuminated, specifically, there is a line of brighter orange skin running right down the chest (it's right before the clothing covers the chest, that vlue of it is much too bright, it just doesn't belong.

His left forearm is much too long, and once again his legs seem rubbery, more at the hip now.

It seems as though his butt deflates vertically and stretches horizontally.

Also, the right side of his figure, which is supposed to be hidden in shadow, is too inconsistent, I mean there are literally splotches of medium tones. And the rim lighting ofthe thigh that is closer to us shouldn't be stretching so far down, if at all, since his left arm seems to be blocking the moons illumination of the leg.
Alright, I'll let you digest that, there are other minor things but they all sort of relate to you continuing to push your consistency, trust me I kow how it is, I struggle with this everytime I sit down to paint, draw, cook dinner... cry... etc...

;P
This one is an improvement, just so you know.

-ras

[260171]

Thanks PERKELE and Pixeldragoon,
PERKELE cold and warm colours are technical terms of which I have little knowledge can you please elaborate yourself a bit? True Pixeldragoon I flirted between colours and well the Box like impression is intentional.
Thanks rasdasa you got it right I was trying my best to makeover from my previous crits I received in this site. The orange skin is a mishandling on my part of acrylics its my first work and it dries very fast just the opposite of oil. The two arms is really misshapen I will remember it next time, thanks also the right side should have been much darker.
Thanks again rasdasa.

[PERKELE]

well, I´ts a bit difficult to explain maybe you should search artbooks or the internet and find out about cold and warm colours.
here´s something for the start:

Warm colors: Colors ranging between yellow to red-violet on the circle i.e. yellow, orange-yellow, red and red-violet.

However, interaction between colors may cause a hue such as red-violet to appear warmer if it is placed next to a cold color, such as green, or colder if it is placed next to a warm color, such as orange.

Cold colors: Colors ranging between blue-violet and yellow-green on the chromatic circle i.e. blue-violet, blue, blue-green, green, yellow-green.

However, interaction between colors may cause a hue such as yellow-green to appear colder if it is placed next to a warm color, such as red, or warmer if it is placed next to a cold color, such as blue.

this was an explanation I found from the net.It doesn´t raelly answer your question beacuse basicly every color can be cold or warm.

[rasdasa]

no worries, keep at it.

Also, PERKeLe, the more I study color the more I realize it's all intuition.
Now isn't that a wonderful thing? ;P
Nice post by the way.

-ras

[260171]

Thanks Perkele; I also agree with rasdasa warm cool colours are OK but intuition works better after all painting should be spontaneous expression too much headache on technicalities well I may prefer to avoid.
Thanks again.