This is after going back in and taking care of that last 20% of work on the face. It’s really about defining edges and checking my value schemes. Most of this work is done by placing the image across the room, or under a heavy squint.
Portraits and likenesses are always a tricky prospect. I find that most failures come from trying too hard to reproduce one's reference. A photo can only portray how something looks, and that is hardly the measure of a person. Looking back, I find that I didn't really understand portraiture until I spent some time doing caricatures. It was a real eye-opener to understand it was possible to capture a person’s “likeness” without accurately rendering their features. Now I'm more concerned with the fidelity, or the truth of a thing.
This piece felt good all the way through. The way spending a day with Elizabeth Montgomery should be. The thing I'm most pleased with is not that it looks like her, I had lots of good reference so that wasn't very difficult, but it feels like her.
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great piece and great insight!
see you in Dallas!
Dude. This is crazy gorgeous, even for you. My suggestion for your trick: Christina Hendricks, from Firefly and Madmen. All that red hair? SO up your alley.
(Full disclosure: actually, this suggestion comes from someone else here at work, but she was too shy to actually post it. So.)
Man, I wish I were able to be at DragonCon this year. I would love to see her in person and maybe persuade you to part with her.
But, I have an even better suggestion for someone aside from Christina Hendricks (Who I think is dead sexy). Why not do a portrait of Samantha's sister, Serena? Two extremes on twins, one a strawberry blond and the other with black hair. And two very different temperaments.
Fantastic!
This is golden, man.
Seriously.
This is crazy gorgeous, even for you.
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Fantastic!
Beautiful piece! Thanks for posting so much information with your posts. It's a treasure trove of knowledge.
looks incredible Brian! thanks for the inspiration!
Hi Brian! Nathan Massengill's friend Emily from Baltimore Comic Con here! Hopefully you vaguely remember me. :)
I know it's been a couple of months since we met, but I'm glad I finally remembered to check out your blog - I love what you are posting here about the process of how you work! And the painting of Sam/Elizabeth came out so well - I completely agree with what you said about trying to get the likeness/spirit of the person instead of trying to do a perfect reproduction of every detail.
Anyway, I will definitely include a link to your blog in my next blog post about awesome things, because this? Is awesome. :) All the best, and happy holidays!
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