[Aleksandra Klepacka]

I didn’t want to start a new topic just to share another work, I’ll stick with my thread to help keeping the forum nice and tidy 🙂

This one took me a long time to finish not because the process was long but because i started it and then for fear of messing up a good underpainting I abandoned it for two months, hah. I get this sort of blocks quite often that’s why I always work on multiple paintings at the same time.

It’s a still from the series but I modified colors to give it a classical oil portrait feel. The pattern in the background is mostly bristle brush, palette knife and paper towel, hah. I quite like the effect.

What do you think about this one?

Thanks!

[Aleksandra Klepacka]

Thank you so much, Guys!

Roman, yeah I literally just paused the video when I saw this shot. It’s from the music video “Cross My Heart…”. In the scene he was entirely in the shadow from his hat and backlit. It was hard to execute in a drawing (as Ute pointed out, it would be more interesting with strong contrasts) but I still went for it.. Exactly because of the expression.

Jan, thank you very much! That was the main flaw in my drawings and paintings for a long time (there were and still are many though, hah) I used to render EVERYTHING and everything it was equally important. In a full figure drawing I’d give the eyes and the big toe the same amount of detail and wonder why my drawing look flat 🙃. I’m working on it! Although, I feel that I’m having a hard time trying to leave bits of my drawing rough and impressionistic without making them look sloppy.

Last but not least, thank you so much for your critique Joshua! I do it a lot, I get carried away like that, hah. Also, since I try not to erase anything in the final stages sometimes when I realise I went overboard with details that should be secondary it’s already too late. If I started bringing out the bigger forms again, I’d just ruin the sketch, the paper I use is slightly textured and it doesn’t respond well to going over and over again in one place. Anyway, thank you so much that you replied to my post, means a lot to me!

Kind Regards to all of you, thank you!

Alex

[Aleksandra Klepacka]

Hi Romanvina!

Just to make your life easier at the construction stage, try to go for thinner lines, then when you start working on the second layer of the sketch, decrease the opacity of the first one and lock the layer. Make sure the second sketch has only the lines you will use, you can indicate shadow pattern with them as well, so that it’s easier to come out with nice defined forms. It might help to establish about 3 values (light, midtones, shadows) for the skin, the dress and the hair. Just put 9 dots somewhere to the side 🙂 Great job so far!

 

[Aleksandra Klepacka]

Ah, almost forgot about the tortoise. George 🙂 I followed the same principles as when I was drawing the portrait above. One discovery I made is that it’s easier to control values when I stick with graphite for 95% of time and just give the drawing extra punch when adding darkest darks witch carbon pencil.

[Aleksandra Klepacka]

Hello Dane!

It’s one of the more problematic angles you are dealing with here, I see that problem I’m most of my students’ works. Pay attention that the leg will be slightly foreshortened, although, right now it just seems too small. Compare the foot and the calf to see what I mean 🙂

Cheers!

[Aleksandra Klepacka]

Ee.. I don’t think the 2 pixel attachment that I managed to insert will be helpful, hah. Sorry, my first post here 🙂

 

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