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What I am working out -should be- pretty basic stuff to most portrait artists,
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Ha not so! I think that everyone (OK,
almost everyone
) fights the the tendency to "go Egyptian", especially when working frm life. I think there are four nearly universal challenges:
- in anything other than a straight-on pose, the tendency to have too much face in the turning away part of the face;
-the tendency to paint ourselves into the model;
-the tendency to "grow the head";
-the tendency to place the head,especially in profile, so that the profile is too close to the center of the canvas, so that the back of the head gets either truncated, or squeezed.
At the PSA this past year I was on a panel that talked about how to identify mistakes - in advance, in process, and after the fact. This was part of the discussion.
I try to be aware of my tendencies and to fight them every time