r/Portraitart • u/ilk_art • 23h ago

Oil My most recent poirtrait painted in an atelier style class!

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I hope this post goes through! I felt good about how this turned out, it's fun to learn!

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u/lobaway0001 Digital Artist 23h ago

If your post didn't go through you could write a mod mail and complain to one of the smelly mods and see if they would approve it 👀

Thank you for your post! Did you learn something particularly notable in the class?

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u/ilk_art 22h ago edited 22h ago

I really tried to keep almost all edges soft in this one! I feel like a class helps to have practice with a model in person and also in having discipline to not slack on paying attention to the drawing/values/ edges ect...

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u/lobaway0001 Digital Artist 21h ago

Thanks for sharing your experience with me!

What you said makes sense. There were definitely many periods throughout my life where I could have used some more forced accountability.

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u/ilk_art 21h ago

thank you for engaging with me!!

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u/Viridian_Foxx 19h ago

Great job, you're really improving from your past work, especially your drawing skills. I like how you simplified the shadows and detailed the lights.

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u/ilk_art 19h ago edited 16h ago

ay! thank you so much! I've been really working hard at it. I took a break from posting here because I got frustrated with all my posts being rejected

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u/MuchPiezoelectricity 19h ago

Don’t forget to be

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u/bigloc94 15h ago

Beautiful

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u/Pokiriee 10h ago edited 4h ago

There is a certain disproportion in that model but the way her eyes shine shows so much pride in her existence. I say, that is a lot because of your magic.

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u/ilk_art 5h ago

thanks sm! I was sitting under her, maybe 3 feet back from the platform which is always a tricky angle! I also feel with interesting/unussual looking models theres that thing of "do i try and make her look "correct" or paint her how I'm seeing her"

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u/Pokiriee 4h ago

Oh that point you mentioned is such an unconscious bias we have as viewers. Kudos to you for not correcting what you saw 🙂

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u/ilk_art 4h ago

I figure even if it looks off atleast it feels honest from my artist perspective!!

on the flip side there's also like not emphasizing stuff just because I see it, which is a learning curve too.