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NirWynby ~FUNKYMONKEY1945

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Leyendecker style portrait for client

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~dinqus Jun 7, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

wow

~ginny33373 Jan 4, 2013

I knew it was Leyendecker before I even read it!! Really awesome piece!

*Axel13-Gallery Jan 2, 2013 Professional Filmographer

It's Nir Kabaretti on the right [link] and on the left the great Wynton Marsalis whom I met some years ago. [link] now you guys know.

*Gabriel-Verdon Jan 2, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Nice! You really captured his style perfectly.

*Minnie-Salinas Jan 1, 2013

Oh wow, I totally dig this!

~Mysticwhip Jan 1, 2013

I'd love for you to do some sort of tutoial for painting skin. like the various hues and stuff and even light and shadow! liking how this looks. Will Smith and......?

~FUNKYMONKEY1945 Jan 1, 2013

lol I dunno who these people are. I just got their photos from the client. Do you paint traditionally? There is a limited pallette that I liked to use. It taught me the most about color and color relationships. Titanium White, some kind of red, yellow and black. You can mix all colors from this. Black will be your blue. There are general rules for skin tones most of which I'm sure you know. Areas like the nose,cheeks( Gluteus included ), knees, elbow, fingers, palms, and toes tend to get warmer. Veiny areas, areas where hair grows tend to be cooler. General rule for mixing color

LIGHT + COLOR of object = Mixture
Shadows, it depends on the color of light. Example, yellow light, purple shadow.
So it would be color of object mixed with purple.

A practice I used to do because color was the HARDEST thing for me was I used to paint white objects with colored objects around it. Colored objects reflecting light are easy to see on white objects. Also keep in mind that anything that gets hit with light will reflect light. Take a paper towel roll and put it close to an object, you'll easily see how it effects and gets effected by the other object.

In the end it all comes down to values and temperature. If the values are solid, it will read. If you have problems identifying a color, don't look directly at it. Look at the color next to it. I learned this trick in landscape painting. There are some crazy color combos in nature.

If you have something specific you wanna work on, let me know. Hope this helps

~Mysticwhip Jan 1, 2013

Wow thanks, I never knew that the shadow is the complementary color of the light source. wow. What's sort of bothering me is I'm not sure how the hues of the skin change or are expressed depending on the lighting. For example, If you have a strong light, you wouldn't see the red in the cheeks or the cool blues and greens in around the mouth area as much, right? or would those areas just be more a more saturated version of the light source? I need to be more studies of stuff like that(like concert photos or movie screen caps.

Thanks so very much for the reply man . Color is so hard and confusing

~FUNKYMONKEY1945 Jan 2, 2013

For that type of lighting it depends on how intense the light is. How bright is the light. If the object gets blown out by the light, you won't really have to worry about those temperature shifts. If you want to put them in, it's all about simultaneous contrast. Different color, same value. Squint your eyes while mixing colors or picking colors. This will help make values more obvious. You can have a lot of color if the values are correct. Just keep in mind that colors look different next to other colors. Blues can be relatively warm and reds can be relatively cool depending on on how it's being used.

Try and get the overall value/color first. Usually that makes temperature shifts easier to see. You're giving your eye something to compare to. The more you paint the more you'll begin to see. When I first started painting, I had the same problem as well. I was told about temperature shifts but I couldn't really see em unless they were super obvious. Squint your eyes at an object to find the base color ( overall color ) Big temp shifts will reveal itself to you.

Hope this helps.

~Mysticwhip Jan 2, 2013

thanks again man. I don't think I'll go back to traditional painting though, way too expensive and messy lol.

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