|
FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
Joined: Jun 2001
Location: Peterborough, NH
Posts: 1,114
|
I like this...you really draw well.
My best suggestion would be to always remember to illuminate your subject with (only) a single source of light. The shadows thus created become an important design element (both on the figure and in the background) and they do add weight and substance to a painting.
As to backgrounds, they work better if you can integrate them with the foreground by finding and losing edges...i.e., to avoid that "cut out" look. (Chris Saper began a thread on this subject.)
Also, think of a background as an opportunity to really make use of your "negative spaces." For example, if you had not cropped the elbow on the left, and let some (background) space flow around it, perhaps the background would have become a more interesting design element.
|