Self-portrait

Kashaar

Hey there, I'm looking for a few crits to a selfportrait I painted today. I used photo reference, with a few traced lines to get the rough shapes right without too much trouble. Here you go:


PS8 & Wacom, about 2hrs

Quasar

I think it looks great. Maybe the midtones on the nose and forehead are too saturated for the amount of light in the scene.

qubism

2 hours?!?!?!
that must have been a fucking time travel.
the color between bright and ark is low saturated and bright and dark strongly saturated
it must be the other way around.

Kashaar

Thanks for the comments!
Time travel? Too fast or too slow? *scratches head*
Here's the reference photo, the high saturation in the midtones is in there too: original photo

And here's an update... cleaned up the brushstrokes and did some final tinting and tweaking:


Crits very welcome.

killingpeople

well it looks like a successful study, nice work. try one with a mirror in grayscale. start with 4 shades first and then work your way up, it's good fun.

Mark Dygert

Looks great but without a peak at the ref its hard to compair

Michael Knubben

Vig: why hold out though?
I'm sure if you click the link that says "original photo", nothing TOO bad will happen.
Qube: your explanation is somewhat, err, lacking?
At least it made no sense to me, so i'm linking to Prom's tutorial, which covers this quite well:
http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm
Overall, i think all of the skintones are too warm/orangey, but it's hard to tell against the background.