The Man with No Name - Portrait

[Kaio]

Hi!

I just finished (?) a portrait and try to get as many opinions about it as I can get:



It's Clint Eastwood, starring in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

I did this in Photoshop, using my Wacom Bamboo Tablet. It took about 3 hours...

What do you think?

Cheers!

[Tramponline]

 :o Jesus! Where do all of you guys get your skillz from!! Amazing! Well done!

The only thing I recognized, the overall shape might be somewhat leaner.
The section between eyes and nose seems somewhat 'clin(t)ched' (sorry stupid, I know, couldn't resist! :)
I think it's the nose, it seems slightly out of perspective.

edit: the overall pespective is perfect. I just realized what it is: if he would rotate his head slightly to his left side, then I'd picture the nose looking pespectively correct. I guess it's got slightly too much profile to it - but that's vereery nitpicky on my part.

[Kaio]

Thanks.

Now that you mention it - I see what you mean. I need to paint over the spot, I hope it will solve the issue.
The overall perspective should be right, though, because I had a good reference pic.

[Mouth for war]

It looks amazing. I wish I had your artskills

[Anian]

While this still looks great (yeah, nose does look sort of off when you really look at it), you should mention upfront when you use reference pics.

[Babar]

Unless he drew it from memory (which would be amazing), it'd probably be assumed he used reference pictures.

I don't remember exactly how it was in the movies, but in your portrait, his hat brim looks a little too thick.

[Tramponline]

Very true, besides, it doesn't have any impact on out criticism of how to improve the image, anian.
Please, let's not succumb to the yahtzee-phenomenon on a subtle scale here, ladies and gentlemen.
We're a community, not a contramunity.

[Anian]

I didn't mean to, and I didn't, say this is crap or doesn't require skill. Even the best artists in the world throught history used models or references. It is really well done.

And I'm postyahtzee forumist, so I don't exactly get the phenomenon.

[Tramponline]

  Exactly. Then I might have misread your earlier post and I do apologize.
My response was never intended to be too much on the serious side anyway
(...no one gets my kind of humor... :'() Now we almost hijacked Kaio's thread, sorry K.)

[Kaio]

The overall perspective should be right, though, because I had a good reference pic.

Hey guys, I'm quoting myself here.

Of course I know that painting with reference and not free doesn't require that much artistic skill. But this wasn't meant to be "artistic", I just wanted to capture the look and feel of the character.

See, every great artist did start with painting strictly after reference. Still lives, portraits, whatever.
When someone can't even get something right WITH reference, how the hell should he or she do without?

And this is me trying to get some practice, not being Picasso.

Anyway, my own fault not making it clear in the OP, that I used reference.

cheers!

[evenwolf]

It looks like Blondie!   Well done!   I see Clint Eastwood very clearly here.


I would redo the hat from scratch.   It looks like a gardening hat, and you want a bad ass hired gun hat.  Slimmer brim, wider headband.   It's interesting you made it a tan color.



I'd love to see one with Clint's beady angry eyes!

[Babar]

I would redo the hat from scratch.   It looks like a gardening hat, and you want a bad ass hired gun hat.  Slimmer brim, wider headband.   It's interesting you made it a tan color.

Hahah...now that you mention it, while it is definitely Clint Eastwood, it does kinda look like a toiling farmer happily overlooking his fields after a hard day's work, rather than a bad-ass cowboy

[evenwolf]

This is a horrible whip up.  My moonitor is going fuzzy and its a miracle I could get this far.  But it gives you an idea of the shape and fold of the hat.    As it si, Clint is wearing a straw hat or maybe giant barber shop quartet hat.