Topic awaiting preservation: Speed Painting: Portraits (Page 1 of 1)

Self portraits, someone from life or even a photo if that works for you.

Say 10 - 60 mins? Take longer if you want

Can't remember the rest of the rules but that sounds about right..


Amerasu

Looky, I am hidden Street Fighter character

10 mins...no color...no reference....no nothing....blah

[edit] ignore the link, that host is bullshit[/edit]

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Nicely done for a 10 min quickie

Looks good Ruski

Amerasu

Another random scrible

also around 10 to 15 mins sketch from some random mag's cover.

(thanks to mahjqa for host...)

Around 15-20 minutes in Photoshop:

(EDIT: I reworked it a bit, new one linked at the bottom ~60, 65 minutes total now. I guess I have to stop. Damn I work slow...)



UPDATE HERE: I do'nt like it very much though

(Dumbass host decided to go belly-up on me, so I rehosted it on another server.)

Ugh, definitaly some anatomy problems, and rendering problems, but whatever.

(That last one is really nice Ruski)

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This is the first self portrait I've tried to do ever. Well, maybe I doodled one or two at school, but that was about a hundred years ago in the last millenium.
As you can see I am a natural artistic genius This only took me an hour, and I never want to look at my ugly mush in a mirror again. I used PhotoShop, with the graphic tablet, and a mirror.
Ruski and cfb, good work fellas, do you have any hints for me and my scrawl, keeping in mind that, having had to look at myself in the mirror for so long, my self esteem is on life support.

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Looks like a positive and good first attempt Tao. Even though you didn't get to shading, I can tell it looks like you (from photo) and that you've taken good care to get the shape of your features basically right. The next step is to add some values, just go with shades of gray rather than colour. Blob on darker grays where the shadows are deepest and lighter where the light hits. I think this will add greatly to your portrait.

You might find it easier to use low opacity brush settings at first. That way the blobs of (digital) paint won't overwhelm you and you'll still be able to see your sketch underneath. Very helpful when you're new

Don't even worry about the time, it's not important. Nice first go!

Amerasu

Advice? Yep.....History says that Caravaggio was almost blind by daylight and only painted at night.... So be like Caravggio....sorta.


Blur your eyes occasionally when looking at your subject to start. You want to start off by blocking out the darks and lights, the basic shape of the face and its components. Blur your eyes to get the angles down then sketch....feel the line, don't try and reproduce it. Blocking in is a major part of any piece, yet everyon wants to try and skip it.

Once you've roughed it all out, then you can look clearly and start working the revisions...refine your sketch lines a bit, get crisper, sharper.

It's all about the base though....and you're headed in the right direction.


Go again.


Peter

Thank you Amerasu, I will try your suggestions. I started off just wanting to post something in this thread, I've been meaning to for ages but kept on putting it off, now I guess you can see why, heh
I know my drawing "talents" leave a lot to be desired, but having done this I actually did enjoy the exercise. I'll carry on with this now, as it is a landmark for me, the first digital drawing with my Medion tablet. How big is your graphical tablet btw? This one I have is big, 15" x 14", at least I think that's big for a tablet.

::tao::
[edit]Ah DarkGarden we posted at the same time almost (always makes me chuckle for some reason) thank you too for the pointers. I certainly will try that out.
Being really ancient and needing to wear glasses more and more both for reading and distance, I was feeling very clumsy having to either, wear my distance glasses so I could see myself in the mirror but not see too much detail on the screen, or swap them to my reading ones for the screenwork.
Your suggestion has made me think that I may be able to use this to my advantage and start off with blurred vision (no glases) to block in the switch to reading glasses for the close up work. Well, it's a thought anyway. [/edit]

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My first attempt at a self portrait in about ... 7 years or so. Roughly 20mins of scribbling. heh.



Ramasax

Let see - This portrait has a severe case of mediocrity, but...whatever.

I saved the steps, in any case. Maybe they can be of some use to you, Tao.





In the first step, I made a light sketch with a 30% opacity brush, with the color set to black. Usually, you'd want to avoid using black in a painting, even a grayscale painting, as it looks very unnatural, but for this, it doesn't matter. After I had a basic outline, I blocked in where I wanted the shadows to be. At this point, the painting is very crude.

For the second step, I used a dark-gray brush at 60% opacity to cover the image, also darkening the initial lines. Then I continued to work on the shadows with the 60% brush, and after that added some highlights with a ligher shade of gray, also at 60%. I then blended them with a 30% brush, by sampling colors.

On the third image, I mostly blended with a 35% brush, by sampling colors and mixing them on the image. I tried to bring definition to the face, by blocking out some of the details, as well as concentrating on the lighting and form more; trying to get it down pat. It didn't work too well

For the fourth/final image, I just blended more, with a 25% brush, then went over some problem areas with a 50& brush again. Mostly reworking a lot of areas.

Anyways, hope that help a bit. Maybe? Yes? No?

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30 mins of old lady. No idea who it is, I made her up although she sort of looks like one of my mom's old friends.





Amerasu

from an old catolog - ad for earrings
pencil sketch +15 min.
i'm slow in photoshop, so +1hr.

click

inspired by Apocalypse Now

no reference...

just wanted to try to capture the maddness and the horror expressed on the face, through lighting...



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I hope this qualifies

From a magazine, took about an hour-ish? Ugh, I work so slowly. (And yes, I know I need to stop drawing on lined paper... it's just that I'm so used to it. )

Horribly quick doodle testing painter

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Something else

Sexy Demoness cel

5 mins
10 mins

ref used

Wow, new Asylum


That's really nice Ozphactor. I really like the depth of the eyes.

Like your horribly quick doodle too, Alevice. His smile looks good

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Heh, thansk amer. Its cool hearing that from you ^^

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Sexy Demoness cel

http://www.deviantart.com/view/6547758/ copy/paste link

or click here

took about an hour

(Edited by Ruski on 04-13-2004 19:55)

okie...those 3 are some of my classmates...used color pencils..took about 20-30 mins each...like em alot...

felix

jarim

cordy


now this one...used balck and blue ink and pencil...took also around 20 mins....not happy with it...kinda shitty, but ohh well....
me

random stuff

just a sketch in painter 8, no reference..

thats sweet ruski...

I gotta dig into painter one oh these days. Maybe it will make me a good painter again? I seem to think it could help. heh.

reminds me of that android dude who paints pics of himself every day. He's a freak. And a dandy fine self painter.


[antique sigs are us]

thanks
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yes he is...I have a friend who met him in Ringling School of Art and Design...said me he is a bit of an asshole ..but awesome artist never the less

also a great inspiration for me...whole more than craig mullins

(Edited by Ruski on 04-19-2004 13:30)

I guess it's time for another speed painting topic since it's been a month so go ahead Ruski.

I imagine that those still interested in portraits can continue posting here..

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