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Published: 2014-02-02 21:38:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 1225; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 0
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A new hair style study (January) submitted for my friends over at: speedpaintstudies.deviantart.c… . I found the subject quite interesting and Lord knows I need some serious hair studies in my tool kit. I decided to continue on to near completion of the reference so, you have the 2 hour study on the left and the (nearly) completed study on the right.The beautiful ref used can be found here: fav.me/d4g3l5c
What I've learned:
Building up colors and texture requires many layers. By working with temporary layers and merging them down as I go, really helps to add textures and colors that are impossible to achieve on single layers.
I'll never get anything completely done in 2 hours LOL!
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this time the hair is clean and the loop is tangible, a great result!
a last thought: the background shadow of the head adds nothing to the beauty, it looks for my taste…useless.
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Thanks for the comment and the Fav! I consider that to be quite a compliment, you have chosen some neat work in there!
Back to the matter at hand. I don't think that I have ever really taken time enough to study hair this much artistically. Though you know, being a girl and all, I kinda always have an eye out for it in real life. I'm just so used to spending so much time on the face and features that I just glob on a tone of marks and voilà! So this was a great study in such regards.
As for the background shadow of the head, I kinda thought that the added orange really brought out the cooler shades of the skin in the chin and neck area. Contrast always being a winner in such situations. I feel it also added a special attention to how delicate that part of the model was. I was also interested in how the shadows at the front of the face got softer toward the chin and harder leaving the back of the head, giving a strong sense of where the light was coming from, leaving sharper shadows as compared to softer ones. It's probably something that I actually put more accent on in the painting than what showed up on the photo, but it obviously interested me a lot because of this. Nice that you point that out.
Great comment thanks!
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yes…thats a good point. However, something bothered me with the shadows, let me complete my consideration:
The shadow boundaries of the photo itself are too sharp - which recalls me my first flash-light shootings. (…) In our case, i would prefer soft shadows before sharp shadows to highlight the subject even more.
Little things can change the overall painting.
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Oh I see, you meant the framing of the image. I was taught that it was an old photographic trick to force the viewer to look inward and therefore toward the focal point. But yeah, I agree, it was probably a little to contrasted on my version as compared to the ref. Good point thanks, I'll keep that in mind for future projects
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this is wonderful, Indu! you really got the structure right and it has awesome colors. Kudos!
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Wow thanks Wolkenfels, that means a lot to me coming from you. I was a little embarrassed because I kinda went over the time limit and then actually finished the painting and posted both results. I guess I kinda bent the rules of the group here (blush).
Won't happen again SIR! (yeah, right)
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Don't look over my old submissions. I got overtime all too often.
The goal is to learn - as long as you learn and as long as you are truthful all is fine. If it ends up like this I welcome some overtime!
How long have you used in the end? 4 hours?!
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Thanks, that just took a load off ^^ As for the actual time, I can't really say. After giving in to the time limit, I just returned to it for small periods of time. I'm guessing it was less than 4 hours, but more that 3. As the face was already kinda blocked in, it went pretty fast. Then I just played with some adjustment layers and lighting, so yeah around 3.5 hours.
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You've managed a nice study as usual my friend. It has a very traditionnal feel, I don't know how you do that exactly but well done! I like her ear!
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About the ear.... LOL! I have big ears and I guess I naturally presumed that is just the way things are.... If Catherine Deneuve's small ears can look similar in this angle, then I am the one that needed to study what a real ear needs to looks like
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I know what you feel, my ears are regular but my head is quite massive, lol!
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