Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Elizabeth SELF PORTRAIT

14 comments:

  1. The composition is nice - gives a very ethereal feel. Is the dark line around your lips really present?

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  2. Nice experimentation with color, I liked the play between warm and cool colors on and around the face. The streaks of red in the hair really complemented her green eyes.

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  3. Interesting placement choice. A smoother gradation from the subject out to the background color would help keep the head from sticking to it, and make it roll out. Yellow border began that process, but the hair tips are very hard edges for what are whisps in reality.

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  4. Nice colors. Interesting composition. The head looks detached and floating because there are no shoulders or collar bone.

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  5. Nice use of color, love the contrast of background to figure, and layout. Some of the darks in your hair read as unfinished. Nice rendering of facial features and musculature.

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  6. Looks a lot like you
    Great color-pastels have a calming effect
    Blue space is reminiscent of the sky
    Nice positioning on page-evokes a greater response from viewer

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  7. Immediately recognizable--due to success in rendering most important features: the high eyebrows, the nose. Though the empty space mostly complements the central image, at least a suggestion of the rest of the bust would succeed more than simply the head disembodied.

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  8. I like the composition. The strong lines around the hair and neck make it look too cartoon like and not so lifelike. It really looks like you and is beautifully done.

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  9. At first glance, I immediately recognized this person and because of that, your capturing of likeness is successful. I'm particularly drawn to the blended areas of the neck and nose as it makes a nice textural contrast to the way you approached rendering your hair. You bring an interesting graphic quality with the harsh contour line following the shape of your head. :D

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  10. This is an interesting composition and I'm not sure I'm a fan of it because with the use of colors and the head not grounded to an object, it looks like a psychedelic floating head. I do, however like the contour lines used to separate to head from the background.

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  11. Compositionally for me its kind of strange, with all of the negative space and the head is not grounded to anything. The colors are lovely and you have done a good job at capturing your likeness. Nice job.

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    1. Her face proportions are on track. Good use of color!

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  13. Nice colors. Good likeness. The lips could be a little less outlined. Great job on the hair. The eyebrows are beautifully shadowed in, very interesting.

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