i am back, and i bring an oil painting

[daarken]

hey everyone, i have been gone for a while doing lotsa different things...but i was able to get this painting done. i tried doing something that is not my usual style...without any dramatic lighting, and i actually wanted it kinda blasted out. maybe i made the face too white compared to the rest of her body....

http://www.daarken.com/FlashPage/Paintings/jessnew.jpg

[StephenC]

i like her lips

[SweetOutrage]

She looks like a total bitch, can I slap her? hahahaha

[daarken]

Originally posted by SweetOutrage
She looks like a total bitch, can I slap her? hahahaha

haha, shut up :P you like slapping yourself? heh

[tyboogie]

yea the face is a little too flat/white

it could use s=oe more variation in color me thinks


dont ever stop painting daarken....EVER EVER EVER!!!!!

[SweetOutrage]

The original picture was flat to begin with. I leveled the crap out of it because no one needs to see what I really look like.
He didn't have much to work with and had to fake the nose since I erased it from the picture.

[House Hatke]

Whoah, these posts are confusing me...

This is a nice painting. My only crit is that the left eye (our right) seems off. And maybe the hair flows a little too far out on the right side, kind of throwing the balance of the piece off a bit. those lips though...fantastic.

http://benhatke.com/thumbnail/225tn.jpg
www.househatke.com (http://www.househatke.com)

[AmadorL]

nice paintin Draaken ...it's been a while since you posted.

keep'em come'n

Amador

[Nold]

Nice work, as always. But I think the right corner of the lips (right from the viewers point of view) is a little bit too low.

[gekitsu]

yeah, it is a little bit flat but imho, that is what makes it.
maybe, the colors on the rim of the flat white could have a lil bit more saturation. remember the way prom deals with that overexposure thing?

sweetoutrage: that = you? holy shit... from what is left after the levelling, you look pretty damn beautiful.

[pconsidine]

For me, the problem is less that the face is blown out (which it is, but I think it still works). It's that the undertones don't really mesh with the tones of the rest of her body. Her face has a strong cool violet cast across the cheeks and nose, while her chest has a warmer, more orange cast. It makes the figure read more as if she's wearing heavy make-up than showing a particular lighting condition.

I also kinda wanted to see a little more definition in her shirt on the left side of the painting. Just something to set it apart from her body a little more.

Otherwise, I like the composition a lot and I think the face is fine (I don't really see where people are talking about her mouth or eyes being off). She's quite a looker, really. :)

Nice work.


(Edited to add that I guess I can see how the little smudge under the lower right edge of her lip might bother some, but it wasn't a big deal to me.)