Tuesday 8 December 2009

Help! I'm Ugly!


I'm at the stage of the work now where I hate it and want to tear it into small little pieces and throw it off the roof, stomp on it and mush it into a puddle.  I go through this with every painting, so I know it will pass once I get past the "ugly" stage. 

All of the above being said, the shading on this one is a killer!  The shaded flesh tones are actually shades of grey which one should not use when working a portrait in coloured pencil.  Anything but grey.  Well, grey and black.  Probably purple too;-)

This is the first time I've done eyes that don't actually show any pupil colour.  They're all squinty and basically black blobs.  This picture sure doesn't do this kid justice!

5 comments:

BONNIE K said...

I think this is a very cool picture!

tony said...

It's Lovely! The Eyes Are Beautiful.

Jennifer Rose said...

my art teacher told me to use more purple when doing portraits, I think my humans were too pink at the time.

don't stomp on it! i have so many people i talk to give up when they get to this stage with coloured pencils.

Kurt said...

Will you sell this one at a discount?

Perpetual Chocoholic said...

No I up the price on the bad ones.