This was the first time I had even heard of expressive portraits. The concept sounded interesting but I wasn’t sure what to do for it. Their wasn’t really any thought put into this concept, it just sort of hit me like an inspirational brick of “that could come out nice,” and I think it did.
The general plan was to take a silhouette of myself and make into a portrait of a season, obviously winter. I did a simple silhouette and attacked it with graphite and pastel. I used the light grey and blue to give the figure a very cold feel, and I tried to direct my unblended strokes into a rough, swirling/blowing movement. The result was this cold and ghostly piece that came out better than I expected. I think I may try doing it again with paint to try and capture more movement and put some more color into it. Any advice welcome.
The general plan was to take a silhouette of myself and make into a portrait of a season, obviously winter. I did a simple silhouette and attacked it with graphite and pastel. I used the light grey and blue to give the figure a very cold feel, and I tried to direct my unblended strokes into a rough, swirling/blowing movement. The result was this cold and ghostly piece that came out better than I expected. I think I may try doing it again with paint to try and capture more movement and put some more color into it. Any advice welcome.
3 comments:
I like your solution of how to deal with portraits since you are having a difficult time with realistic portraits - but keep practicing.
I like the overall composition and color scheme, but would like to see a bit more work to 'clean up' the piece and adding detail - not facial features necessarily, but value. I think a more variety of value and contrast will add to the overall feeling of this piece.
yay, josh, yay: you made an expressive portrait. I like how is face is basically non-existent/rough. It would be nice if his body was a bit bolder, though? but you know me & my obsession w/boldness... basically I'm just really happy you finally just made a portrait. you can make cool stuff, sir.
Very nice for your first expressive portrait Josh, I am impressed. It really makes the viewer think and ponder.
I think you need more detail, though. You could also use more lighting on this photo since you used cold and dark pastels.
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