While I went to school for art, I still consider myself an aspiring artist still trying to find a direction. I started off drawing in pencil which transitioned to charcoal and then ended up here in th digital realm. I've never been great with color and struggled for some time trying to find a way to do half my artwork by traditional means and the rest through digital. After various failures trying to scan my sketches or trying out wacom tablets, I found Poser and began my current phase.
I've been using Poser for about four years but still feel like a newbie compared to many of the artist here on Renderosity. I use Poser primarily for the composition of the figure I wish to work with. I then move to Photoshop and with the help of Filter Forge I begin to "throw paint at the canvas" so to speak.
None of this would be possible without the critiques and comments from the Renderosity community, and the Vendors/Artists who provide the amazing products that are the tools neccesary for me to make art. Especially...Godin, Ironman13,P3Design,-Wolfie-, and Propschick.
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Comments (2)
Richardphotos
outstanding portrait on former President Obama
tobiasbruckner
Thank you!
tuerda
I have never understood how this sort of thing works.
In order to get a likeness in a portrait, I have to huker down, shade many different values, and work through a fair amount of detail. The likeness eventually emerges, but I have to beat the portrait up a lot to make it truly recognizable. It is safe to say I hate portraits.
Then along comes someone like you, who can make a portrait instantly recognizable by using only two values and a few simple shapes. I feel you have to have a very keen understanding of exactly what makes faces distinct to do this. If I was this good I probably would enjoy portraits much more.
tobiasbruckner
Ha! I have the same problem actually. When I started off I would just draw random faces from my imagination that were not of anyone in particular. I really liked the end result but often times the proportions were off enough to see that it wasn't a realistic human face. When I first started trying to draw a specific person I would fight so much getting the likeness correct that not only had I lost inspiration but I'd erased holes through the paper. An art teacher of mine suggested I use a projector to cast the reference photo on to the paper and from there trace a skeleton of the face using the fewest amount of lines possible. That allowed me to get the frustrating part out of the way so that I could focus on whatever vision I had for the piece. I'm also terrible with color and have always just found black and white art works for me. If you look through my gallery, the pieces titled "Marble" are just faces I made up and are not of a specific person. The rest are from a reference photo which then allows me to play around with a minimal amount of shapes and lines to still maintain the likeness.