/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4168696
Hello Brian.
>>4168667
>>4169378
There is a reason portraits are so hard to get right, and why portrait painters were once so highly paid.
I spent over a year painting still lives from set ups to get really used to colour mixing, and to not rely on photographs to make decisions about grouping values and hues. But then you get to faces, with all the bones & muscles etc to take into account, all the tiny colour shifts and value changes across the skin, and the problem of putting down paint is so much harder.
Well done on this first effort, it will take you hundreds of portraits before you will satisfy yourself or /ic/, but don't worry about pleasing /ic/.
/end of blog post.