this is beautiful, i dunno how you do the hair strands, and i like the light and shadows on the face.

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Jeez.. you are a machine... how in the world do you crank out this much work, and keep it of such quality? The lighting here is wonderful (rembrandt lit from the left, no?) and your sense of that is superb. I particulary appreciate the shift in tonality in the shadows, it shows an excellent eye for light. My guess is that the JPEG compression hurt such a high contrast painting. You need someone to do copystand work for you, it would really help the experience for us online folk. Still, it's a superb painting, I just wonder if actual light would make such a rapid transition across the lips and chin? It seems a little severe, particularly compared with the precision of the rest of the painting.

~adoniram

shadowy perfection

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Wow...you own me in oil painting. This is gorgeous.

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this is stunning, the hair is so beautifully and well painted. and the shadows are magnificent, good job!

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Lovely lips, and such smooth fleshtones it makes me want to lick it.

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the painting is from a webcam shot where he shone a lamp on his face...it was that contrasted naturally. I was obsessive about capturing the mouth in particluar but you are right, the compression has fucked with it....I do copystand stuff, I am just lazy. I will do it for proper slides at some point. I cranked all these out for my senior show, cus I am graduating from art school in 2 weeks. it was HELL, I am not normally this prolific but I am quite happy with these paintings. I have about 5 more that i have yet to photograph...anyway thanks, cheers, x

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Well at least that makes a lot more sense... it's a fine bit of work~

~adoniram

I thought it was a picture when I saw the thumbnail o_o; awesome job.

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amazing!!!