{"id":1111,"date":"2020-04-28T15:31:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T19:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2020-05-05T06:35:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T10:35:26","slug":"max-muradian-master-portrait-picasso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/max-muradian-master-portrait-picasso\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Muradian – Master Portrait (Picasso)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Good work, Max, with a good overall configuration and good progress so far, but it has room to grow richer and subtler. Just a few notes:<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t affect other proportions too much (although it did make your face a bit narrower than his), but the negative space on the left is narrower, and the silhouette of his hair (and the shape of that negative space) is different. It might not seem to matter but that shape is sending a subtle signal about the foreshortening and volume on that side of the head.<\/p>\n

Related to this, the darker marks inside the silhouette of the hair\u2014especially those ones on our right\u2014are telling an important story about the volumes and overlapping planes within the shape of the hair. Yours could be more specific and descriptive.<\/p>\n

The shadow lines on the jaw should be wider and softer, and the shadow from his chin on his neck should be darker, which helps the chin and face to project more.<\/p>\n

Your darkest edges\u2014the eyebrows, irises, edges of the hair and shadows around the jaw and neck are too focused and hard. Everything in the original is fairly soft edged. Great job on the nose and ears in this regard, for instance.<\/p>\n

His mouth is wider and upper edge of upper lip softer and less dark. Look for outer edges of mouth to be directly below the irises, as his are.<\/p>\n

There’s nothing off about this–it’s good and very much on track but could go further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good work, Max, with a good overall configuration and good progress so far, but it has room to grow richer and subtler. Just a few notes: It didn\u2019t affect other proportions too much (although it did make your face a bit narrower than his), but the negative space on the left is narrower, and the … Continue reading “Max Muradian – Master Portrait (Picasso)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visual-arts-1101-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}