WESTERN ARTWORK By Denny Karchner 21 Oct 2009

Hi Gage.

If you get time, read through my tutorial. This might help you.

Denny

http://www.artwanted.com/mb/topic.cfm?Topic=178316&PageNum=1&MaxRows=999

chris newbrook 23 Oct 2009

I believe that to draw well there's no shortcut. You need to keep practising as often as possible and in time you will develop skills and sensitivity to line and mark making. practise drawing from life and real objects aswell and you will learn the importance of line, proportion, foreshortenning and tone.

Even good illustration is informed by skills in drawing. Photographs tend to be very poor images to work from unless you can use artisitc license and add a personal feel to the portrait. Otherwise the portrait will always be a weaker version of the photograph.

Per Corell 24 Oct 2009

A foto represent all the element I need to decide for a portrait. A portrait for me, is an image vith just enough and just the right details, to express that person. Real do not offer the same rest, as a foto when deciding what to put to the canvas, -- there I use a brush, but I prefere a foto it is simply more practic ; you can even use your own foto's and make it your process for your foto's, for me jettison the foto would be silli, it's a tool as digitizer is for others. Light and how it image expession has been part of fine art from beginning, the mother of foto is very close to be painting, optics been there from the beginning, the Dutch painters kept it a secret for centuries. I use any tool that bring me nearer beauty, --- paintings do that as good as foto's

bari titen 24 Oct 2009

'drawing on the right side of the brain', by betty edwards, is a great learning tool....she teaches you to see things differently...like turning your drawing upside-down...i do that all the time and it really helps me to see details of the face in a different way...

Mary-Lee Sanders 25 Oct 2009

Yes I agree turn your picture upside down and try drawing light and dark areas rather than the nose, mouth, eyes.......See the masses rather than the details

Per Corell 26 Oct 2009

Most who paint experience the painting to be the creative process, but it is possible to move that to the sketching or the catching of the figure and then painting become just trivial work, good to progress with case you stalled.

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