Portrait

So I've just finished a portrait that someone on facebook asked me to do. Have given it a good go and am reasonably happy with the face but found the hand really difficult.

The guys hand was kinda supporting his head but at the same time slightly turned. I think I redrew it 3 times before I was anywhere close to being happy. More hand drawing practice for me!

As this piece was for someone else I'll not put it on my blog until I've asked permission

Hands

Look at the hand! Look at the hand!

The portraits not perfect  but I'm quite pleased with the hand which I can proudly say looks quite hand like!  That's opposed to the mangled messes which normally result in me drawing hands!

I'm not saying it's perfect (I know its not) but I could pick apart a picture until I can longer see the good bits. I'm not going to do that any more than I already have. :-)

 Look at the hand!

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Eliza Doolittle

This is a piece called "Eliza Doolittle";  named after and Eliza Doolittle's album. This is part of the challenge/project I have set for myself where I produce 30 pieces based on album titles.


Now I'll freely admit that this doesn't really look like Eliza Doolitle in the photo I was working from but I did try. I loved doing the hair!


I only used pastel and this isn't something I often do but am reasonably pleased with the effect. The nose was difficult and something I could do with working on in the future.


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Sigh No More

This is a piece called "Sigh No More";  named after and Mumford and sons album. This is part of the challenge/project I have set for myself where I produce 30 pieces based on album titles.




I saw this title as a final sigh, it brought the idea of death to mind. Bright colours were used to represent  the soul leaving the body.


I combined pencil sketching and graphite sticks with pastel work to achieve the effect I wanted and am quite pleased with the result. The lips were tricky, there was a sheen that I found difficult to reproduce.... bit more practice needed

This is a piece called "The Defamation of Strickland Banks";  named after and inspired by Plan B's album. This is part of the challenge/project I have set for myself where I produce 30 pieces based on album titles.


It was a difficult piece to come up with a concept for. I decided to play around with Photoshop and used synonyms for defamation to produce this portrait. The photo all this is layered on being of a man who looks to have lost everything. I enjoyed producing this piece and it was surprisingly easy (with the help of online tutorials (google text portraits).


I'm relatively new to photoshop and the program at times is a little overwhelming but its fun to have an actual purpose when using it like I did for this.