i was screwing around on my new tablet and did this. i figured pretty much every artist has do do self portraits at many points… so anyone feel like sharing?
here’s mine. took about 2 hours
nice man. Looking mean. I’m doing a self portrait oils on masonite right now. Should be done by the end of the week.
good job with the lighting, really makes the portrait a lot more fun to look at.
and that’s some killer facial hair you got there
dfist- i have mad respect for oil as it is the one medium i don’t know how to work with…my latest kick has been sculpting, which i will post soon.
woof- oh its real too actually in person it’s a tad longer…i’m thinking of cutting it, but i really want to be one of those assholes who has a braided goatee…maybe a little baby skull hanging from it…wait no.
Yeah oil is definitely not easy to work with. I struggle with it all the time. It’s a very forgiving medium though, there’s no limit to how many times you can rework something.
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/7062/selfhn4.jpg
took me about 2-3 weeks, 2-3 hours every other day or so. Jacket looks like tank tracks instead of herringbone.
Damn dfist. You are getting pretty good! You have improved to the 5th power.
Anyways, if I were you, I’d go more impressionsistic with the jacket strokes. Try not to get too crisp and even with everything. As long as it looks like herringbone, it’s good. As for your shoulder on our left. Try softening the edges so it can lay back. As for the hair, use pthaelo blue to cool off the edges because it looks a bit cut out right now. The highlights can use some incorpertion of the bg color as highlights instead of using straight white. Watch the eyes and the darks of the inner nose. Don’t want to get too chalky. Punch those up with pure color.
Overall very good work. The face is beautiful, but the jacket and hair isn’t on par with the strokes on the face. Just get some unification between all the colors. Good shit.
Fabulous. Thanks for the tips man. I’ll get to reworking it.
Along the way, I got lost of my own objective. I read in the Art Spirit: “The processes of painting spring from an interest, a definite thing to be said. Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.”
I guess that’s why it’s better to paint strangers than friends.