Dzeljka's portrait journey

dzeljka 2017-09-14 07:45:02 UTC #1

Hi Cubebrush,
I recently started a personal challenge of improving my portrait skill, since that is somewhat of a weak spot for me. Face your weaknesses, right?
With that in mind, I've decided to start posting here. I'm excited about my progress and I'm really looking forward to your c&c, advises etc, feedback is always more than welcome.

dzeljka 2017-09-14 07:48:36 UTC #2

One casual for the beginning

rokdem 2017-09-14 20:47:16 UTC #4

This is your weak spot? Poor you;)

I have nothing to add, these are masterpieces to me! Well done!
And welcome to the forums!

Fris 2017-09-15 01:02:54 UTC #5

Doing a great job! but since i dont have the reference to the portrait i cant make a valid critque on the face structure so instead what i did is do a paint over on the highlights that you have on the drawing. Now i notice when you were doing highlights, you were mostly hinting at them and not committing to them, when you commit to them and up the contrast on them it give the piece more balance and appeal.Now what i did was an exaggeration of the highlights to show form to the girl, you dont have to do that, thats just me giving an example of what im talking about when i say commitment hope this helps

dzeljka 2017-09-22 13:34:19 UTC #6

oh I-m so sorry to reply like a week later!
thank you for the kind words, I-m looking forward to checking these forums a bit more often

dzeljka 2017-09-22 13:36:50 UTC #7

wow, there's a completely different feeling to it than before. Even if it is exaggerated, it looks more alive. Thank you so much, it certainly did help!
And I-m so sorry for the late reply

dzeljka 2017-09-23 18:44:59 UTC #8

so i tried doing male portrait
there is maybe not much difference between form and cast shadow?

dzeljka 2017-09-23 18:47:42 UTC #9

unfortunatily, i went on painting with colors before realizing that there is difference between form and cast shadow, so here are some done in the last couple of days

dzeljka 2017-09-23 18:48:27 UTC #10

dzeljka 2017-09-23 18:50:50 UTC #11

rokdem 2017-09-26 18:09:45 UTC #12

Waw,

the last ones look convincingly ill:)

Could you explain the difference to the ones who have not figured it out yet?

dzeljka 2017-09-26 19:45:21 UTC #13

that was something i was going for
well, this is how it was explained to me: cast shadows are usually darker and with a more defined shape, and form shadow is the shadow on the object on the oposite side of the light source that gives the object it-s form but is lighter and softer than cast shadow
there-s something about it here http://www.kingslan.com/newsletters/shadows.pdf

honestly, I-m still trying to wrap my head around it, i thought the shadow is what gives the object it's form, and didn't rly notice the difference. But, when you pay a bit of attention, you can notice it

For example my black and white male portrait...he is sitting in the shadow of something, but that is not clear because there is no cast shadow, i treated them the same
I dont know if anything of this makes sense xD