Looking for opinions and critiques on my art
2yr
Rayan Khlaif
I wanted to share some of my recent paintings. I tried to experiment alot with portraits (these are 50cm x 50cm) and I actually like how it turned out (I chose some portraits to best express the feelings I wanted to give to them and got inspired from photos on pinterest. The colors and the rest is from my imagination).
It was also the first time I tried painting with oils (watermixable COBRA) and did a little bird painting to test it out.
I'm working on a copy of the renaissance painting "lady with unicorn" by Raphael (It is in 70cm x 50cm). I'm doing the underpainting with burnt siena plus a bit of Ivory black now.
For school I had to draw a bunch of flower studies with pen and ink but I mixed it with watercolor (A3 paper)
And the rest is just practicing..
I would love to hear your opinions and critiques!
Btw I'm 15 years old and just trying my best :))
2yr
Good job Rayan, keep it up. Just keep working on the fundamentals like drawing, anatomy, perspective, color theory, etc. By time your old enough to get a job, you'll be amazing :)
I like your colors a lot! I think for your face paintings it could work well to use a lighter value on the nose. I like how you use color to separate the darks and lights.
For the face structure drawing on the left, it might look nice to connect the dark area by the eye and under the nose to create a nice shape, or at least make the area between them on the left side of the nose darker. I think this would make it stand out more.
For your flower studies, the ones where you add a line to show the volume of the thin side of the flower (like the succulent on the bottom left) work really well. The way you painted all of them gives it a nice dreamy feel, good job.
for your butterflies I recommend creating a greater contrast between the subject and the background so it's easier for the audience to tell what their looking at. I also have similar advice for the bird, push the darks darker :)
Overall, great work! these are really nice paintings, especially for a 15 year old.
