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What do you think of this artwork? What makes it bad or good?
It's probably pretty awful but what is it exactly that makes it awful? I mean the face, not the composition, which I put zero thought into. I personally sort of like the face, but I have a bias since I made it. How can I make it less awful and possible sell-able? I am not going for a very realistic face. It is meant to be stylized, or semi-realistic, sort of like Picasso who did not create realistic portraits.
I would like to become a portrait artist and sell my work one day. I plan on taking art classes (which I obviously need desperately) after the pandemic ends but for now I have to rely on deviantart and Y!A and deviantart is useless. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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- ?Lv 53 weeks ago
That picture actually looks pretty nice to me. But I also loved editing that picture with Adobe Photoshop! Maybe you should change that hairdo a bit.
- Anonymous3 weeks ago
Picasso absolutely did create realistic portraits – for example the portrait of Gertrude Stein and a number of self-portraits as a young man. And it is because he could and did draw and paint accurately that he could simplify his drawings. Your drawing most resembles the simplified drawings of Francoise which he did in the 1940s (Girl with flowers in her hair).
In terms of your drawing the major "mistake" that I notice straight away is the lack of a gap between eyebrow and eye socket. Take a look at a skull, notice where the brow is and how big the eye sockets are. The eyebrows are only just below the brow ridge, beneath them is a large sphere (the eyeball) the only visible parts are shrouded above and below by the eyelids. You need to move the eyes down so that they are near level to the bridge of the nose.There are other areas you could address, distance between lips and nose – the philtrum, where you have added shade to the cheeks there is often a light patch below the eyes and the cheeks then curve down to meet just above where the upper jaw starts, the face is a little narrow (Picasso often exaggerates the width of the face). The line of the mouth between the lips is not a straight line. Hair is tricky, yours "works" as a symbol of hair and in the simple style it is perhaps adequate, but it also lacks volume.Something else missing and that are very useful in drawing a human face are the ears (which can help you work out which way the head is looking – high for looking down, low for looking up) and a neck.It is not a bad drawing and, yes it does need work to make it a good drawing, but do not be disheartened, practice, practice, practice. And take a look at the Picasso drawings and paintings I mentioned, they are deceptively simple.
