Happy New Year: New Portrait Posted: Spike
ShadowWind
group...
A painted portrait of Spike/James Marsters...
Is my first male portrait, so hopefully it looks like him...
http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=121199
Happy New Year to you all wherever you are...
Green Thumb
wrote:
>Thought I would share this as I did the other painting with the
>group...
Thanks! I missed looking at your other pictures when you first linked
them, so I'm glad I got another chance to look at them.
>A painted portrait of Spike/James Marsters...
>Is my first male portrait, so hopefully it looks like him...
It's not perfect, but it's about a million times better than I could
do, so who am I to complain? :)
Aethelrede
ShadowWind wrote in message <9js13ukk2fqfmak0h...@4ax.com>...
>Thought I would share this as I did the other painting with the
>group...
>
>A painted portrait of Spike/James Marsters...
>
>Is my first male portrait, so hopefully it looks like him...
>
>http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=121199
Well, if you really want criticism. it's an excellent likeness, no label
required, but it just isn't "Spike": the hair is wrong and there's no
"Spike" in the expression, no muscles or lines: it's rather too much a Sir
Thomas Lawrence portrait.
Not that there is necessarily anything wrong with that: very few
individuals can afford to buy one of them these days.
Great technique though.
--
We put the urn aboard ship
with this inscription:
This is the dust of little
Timas who unmarried was led
into Persephone's dark bedroom
And she being far from home, girls
her age took new-edged blades
to cut, in mourning for her,
these curls of their soft hair.
ShadowWind
<æthel...@worldnot.att.net> wrote:
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>ShadowWind wrote in message <9js13ukk2fqfmak0h...@4ax.com>...
>>Thought I would share this as I did the other painting with the
>>group...
>>
>>A painted portrait of Spike/James Marsters...
>>
>>Is my first male portrait, so hopefully it looks like him...
>>
>>http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=121199
>
> Well, if you really want criticism. it's an excellent likeness, no label
>required, but it just isn't "Spike": the hair is wrong and there's no
>"Spike" in the expression, no muscles or lines: it's rather too much a Sir
>Thomas Lawrence portrait.
> Not that there is necessarily anything wrong with that: very few
>individuals can afford to buy one of them these days.
> Great technique though.
I guess I can see what you mean. I noticed after it was done, that it
resembled more of James Marsters, then it did Spike. That's probably
because the reference pics were from James' publicity shots more so
than Spike's publicity shots. I noticed later in looking at some
other pics that Spike's face is much more indented and usually has a
bad ass attitude to it, where James is more outgoing. In fact the
original title was James Marsters: A Painted Portrait, but I was
afraid people wouldn't know who it was, so I changed it to Buffy's
Spike. Thanks for your comments.
Aethelrede
Well, the explanation works for me. It's not as if you had James
Marsters posing in character as Spike in one of his "Spikier" moments.
Painting from photos is probably tough. I dunno.
I've only painted one even halfway decent thing in my whole life, and
that was a couple of Irises I added water colour to after I sketched them in
the school garden. Got a gold star for that! (kidding! High School!.
"Not really all that bad" is what I got, IIRC)
My only other even faintly arty thing is taking photos, and I know how
hard it is to get real character into them. Just getting them right so
people recognise what the picture is without the usual lengthy description
of what it would show if it wasn't badly focused, poorly exposed and
grossly out of frame is hard enough.
But as "James Marsters: A Portrait" it's fine. Who knows? 250 or so
years down the road and it might get large wads of money bid for it at
auction. 20 years from now it might make you a surprisingly large amount.
Ebi
And to you! Nicely done portrait of JM, what did you use?
ShadowWind
I use Painter mostly with Photoshop for pre and post work for my
portraits...I use a tablet (when it works), but for this picture,
mostly a mouse because the tablet keeps locking up my computer.
Thanks for the comment...