Morgan Weistling
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Award winning fine artist represented by @legacygalleryart in Scottsdale AZ
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@fepampeyan
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added comment inThe 4 Types of Edges in Painting
Hi Morgan. I'd love a critique on this recent portrait I just did of a friends daughter.
Thanks so much.
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I would never have used this photo. hope you watch the lesson on this. But you did great with what you had to work with. Not good light at all.
Tanya Valkanova
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I found it very challenging but lerned a lot from this one. Thank you!
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it's good. I would push you to get a clearer shadow from light separation. there are a few halftones that coud be cleaned up too. But good job
@rdj8564
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Squinting- edges
Forgive the crossing lines. The crossing lines are not connected.
I also was not exhaustive in pointing out all the edges.
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separate your shadows from light better before you could ever judge edges. clean up those light and darken those shadows and edges will be easy
Salem M
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I think I could have done a better job on the measurements and value control. Something about this one was extremely more challenging than the old man drawing.
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old men are always easier. You are in the ballpark but would hope you could have been even more specific in your measuring. It also looks like this type of paper and charcoal may not have been forgiving.
Zosya S
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Hello Morgan,
Thanks again for an amazing course, I am learning a lot. It teaches me how to approach to a portrait drawing and painting with a clear structure that I was lacking before. This is the course I have been waiting for years. Thanks a lot.
This is my first oil portrait. The value of the ear seems a bit light. But when I squint it reads as a part of shadow family, so I am a bit confused if I should darken its value or it is ok like this.
I tried my best to get the colour of the his shirt right (like in your painting- a bit cooler green). But I couldn't get it right unfortunately. When I mix yellow and black, I get warm green, when I add more blacks to it gets darker, not the cooler. Adding whites didn't help either. Any tips would be useful, thanks.
In real finished painting there are more subtle colour variations and modelling, unfortunately camera flattens it all.
Thanks for your feedback in advance.
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needs to go darker.should look like what it looks like when you squint. Other than that, you are doing good.
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solid. I like it.
Elmari Van Zyl
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not sure if it's the shot or wether you used too much red overall. it's coming off very warm. The halftones on her forehead could be lightened a little more to keep it cleaner in the values. Overall you did a nice job and think it's just tweaking to make it better. Consider how I added more cools to the skin tone to make it more real. This is a bit monochromatic and thus it looks a little less like real skin tones.
Morgan Weistling
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Morgan Weistling
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