Thread: First Portrait - Complete

I don't think this exactly fits the catagory of fine art. I learned alot and there are many things I will do diferent next time. Here it is anyway.

very nice egneg !!!! Im scared to try portraits never been a strong point of mine !! but one day ill have to ,cant run forever right? again good job !!!!

I am not sure how many hours I have into it but at least 10 or 12 (and at least half of them were trying to fix or cover mistakes). I put small ball bearings in the paint jars to mix up the paint (not a good idea with water based paint - they rust). Next time I will do the eyes and lips first I think and then mask them either that or make 3 times as much skin colored paint to cover up overspray. Use bigger sheilds to prevent aforementioned overspray. I think also that I will sketch the basic portrait on a separate piece of paper that I can use as an overlay as I lost my lines on the actual piece that I traced from a projector. I used very little masking on this and opted for free hand shields so maybe thats where I went wrong. When I do the next one I will try different methods. This week Steve Driscoll is going to be in town for a seminar and I can't wait to go (hopefully I can get some tips and tricks from him).

Thats a great idea about the stones and I will try it - thanks Doug (and Kimmo).

Thanks to air_fx I was inspired to do a little more to this portrait. What do you guys think?

Yes - I used the bangs to cover up those nasty eyebrows - thanks mayhem.

Very nice!!!!

Thanks for all the compliments - it really means a lot to me that you like it.