WIP. Portrait of a Scottish gentleman

[immiketoo]

  On 11/21/2018 at 10:20 PM, ABHandmade said:

Mike, I would like to hear your opinion regarding my attempt to imitate the structure of the skin. Unfortunately, the reflections in the photo significantly mask this effect.

I hope that after painting it will appear more pronounced.

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Andrey, the skin texture is excellent.  Again, your nose and lips are perfect.  Watch out for the eyebrows.  It looks like you made indentations for the hairs as opposed to raising them up.  Its a lot of work to raise them but its worth the effort.  

 

  On 11/21/2018 at 11:54 PM, battlemunky said:

I heard it @immiketoo.

I'm just glad you didn't choose this pic of Mr. Connery @ABHandmade:

I lol everytime I see this one. Sorry to detract from your rather awesome embossing Andrey!

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Wow...that I have never seen!

[ABHandmade]

  On 11/22/2018 at 6:57 AM, immiketoo said:

Watch out for the eyebrows.  It looks like you made indentations for the hairs as opposed to raising them up.  Its a lot of work to raise them but its worth the effort.  

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Thanks for the advice, Mike! I will certainly take this into account in the next work.

  On 11/22/2018 at 6:57 AM, immiketoo said:

Wow...that I have never seen!

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I, too

Edited November 22, 2018 by ABHandmade

[immiketoo]

Andrey, after comparing the original picture to your piece I realized what was bothering me.  The top of his head is more pointed in the picture.  Yours is more rounded.  A subtle difference, but it stands out to my eye.  Also, the right side(Viewer's left) cheek crease by the nose has a curve that doesn't exist on the original.  But the other side does.  Its almost as if you swapped those lines somehow.  These are the small details I was talking about the other day.  

[immiketoo]

Pardon the crude markup of this picture, but the lines show what I mean more specifically.

[ABHandmade]

I agree. With the "pointed of head" it will be possible to try a little to rectify the situation during coloring. But with the cheeks, it seems, I seriously missed .

[immiketoo]

I wouldn't call it seriously missed, as he is still recognizable an every well done, just refining the details for 100% accuracy

[immiketoo]

Here is something I do to help if I am struggling with a piece.

351726A3-10F1-4DB8-A284-9F7E271BDA27.MOV

[ABHandmade]

  On 11/22/2018 at 7:34 AM, immiketoo said:

I wouldn't call it seriously missed, as he is still recognizable an every well done, just refining the details for 100% accuracy

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Well, always want to do better. True, it does not always work

[ABHandmade]

  On 11/22/2018 at 7:49 AM, immiketoo said:

Here is something I do to help if I am struggling with a piece.

351726A3-10F1-4DB8-A284-9F7E271BDA27.MOVFetching info...

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Awesome tool (and your possession of it), Mike!

EDIT: Thank you so much!

Edited November 22, 2018 by ABHandmade

[immiketoo]

It’s two apps on my smart phone.  Photo overlay and screen record.  You can easily compare your art to the photo this way.  Actually, you don’t need screen record.  I just did that for you so you could see it.  

 

Notice how the things that are dead on stay still and those those that are a little off seem to move?  Your eyes and nose are perfect.