This is a really good piece, Anibal. I like that you used charcoal (?) to make the lines graphic and vary the line weight a lot. I like how you used lines to shade the portrait, I can really see where the light is hitting the hair. I also think the lips are well done, a good balance of graphic and shaded. The eyes are very impressive, I can see the color value and the expression really clearly in how you drew them. I think if you connected the shoulder more, the portrait would flow more, I find that I get stuck at the place where the head breaks from the neck on the left side. Overall, very interesting portrait, I like it a a lot!
1. I’m content with this piece. I chose to do a 3/4ths point perspective because it was the best picture of myself that I took in the past week lol. I think it mostly looks like me. This began as an imitation of the style of Egon Schiele, but as I was shading, I became frustrated and began to do whatever I wanted. His shading has a lot of idiosyncrasies. It’s minimalistic, yet effective, using a lot of light whispy marks to create value, which contrasts the harsher contour lines
2. While I spent a lot of time on my schematic, some of that got lost in the impressionistic shading. Thus, my contour might be more accurate than the overall piece. A good example of this is the nose. The nose is nearly two-toned, and this obscures a lot of the detail. I know that I have a noticeable hump on my nose, which I guess I forgot to shade into my piece. The same issue is present in the ear lobe.
Even though I think the shading looks good, I don’t think the portrait looks completely 3-dimensional. However, I think these things can be fixed through revision.
I’ve taken art classes before, so I have completed similar projects. However, I’ve never felt comfortable with stippling, scribbling, and hatching. I made it a personal project to use this half of the semester to attempt to use these forms of value. In terms of this goal, I feel as though I’ve made a lot of progress.
This is a really good piece, Anibal. I like that you used charcoal (?) to make the lines graphic and vary the line weight a lot. I like how you used lines to shade the portrait, I can really see where the light is hitting the hair. I also think the lips are well done, a good balance of graphic and shaded. The eyes are very impressive, I can see the color value and the expression really clearly in how you drew them. I think if you connected the shoulder more, the portrait would flow more, I find that I get stuck at the place where the head breaks from the neck on the left side. Overall, very interesting portrait, I like it a a lot!
1. I’m content with this piece. I chose to do a 3/4ths point perspective because it was the best picture of myself that I took in the past week lol. I think it mostly looks like me. This began as an imitation of the style of Egon Schiele, but as I was shading, I became frustrated and began to do whatever I wanted. His shading has a lot of idiosyncrasies. It’s minimalistic, yet effective, using a lot of light whispy marks to create value, which contrasts the harsher contour lines
2. While I spent a lot of time on my schematic, some of that got lost in the impressionistic shading. Thus, my contour might be more accurate than the overall piece. A good example of this is the nose. The nose is nearly two-toned, and this obscures a lot of the detail. I know that I have a noticeable hump on my nose, which I guess I forgot to shade into my piece. The same issue is present in the ear lobe.
Even though I think the shading looks good, I don’t think the portrait looks completely 3-dimensional. However, I think these things can be fixed through revision.
I’ve taken art classes before, so I have completed similar projects. However, I’ve never felt comfortable with stippling, scribbling, and hatching. I made it a personal project to use this half of the semester to attempt to use these forms of value. In terms of this goal, I feel as though I’ve made a lot of progress.