/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3649527

I don't get why you're asking for feedback from us. There are tons of tutorials on this shit everywhere. Just write "portrait painting tutorial" on YouTube and try to find paintings that appeal to you and emulate the steps from those. Doesn't even matter if it's in a different medium. You can always get something by looking at them.

There are all kinds of things wrong with your paintings. The values are incoherent, the anatomy is all over the place and you don't seem to have any grasp on stroke economy. There's no focus anywhere because you're painting from photos. Here are some steps you might want to take in the future:

- Do studies from life. Paint fruit or something organic like that. Point a light on the thing you're looking at a single point and draw out from there. Don't look elsewhere. It's okay if it gets blurry towards the borders.

- Do a proper drawing under your image and don't start painting until you have everything right. Look at it from the mirror if you need to. Also study drawing more.

- Start working from a single, muted hue and build your stuff up slowly from there. Think about every stroke. Look at how this guy is painting for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4wkJjMon4o

He's not just blasting everything right from the start. He's taking his time and really looking at his work to make it look appealing.

- Practice working on a limited palette. I really like Zorn's palette. It makes you stop and think about what you're doing and it's a great thing to study for a beginner.

- It's usually a good idea to build your painting in such a way that there's more paint on the areas with the most light. It's okay to show your underpainting and even a little bit of canvas on the shadow parts and use really thick/blobby paint on the highlights. Building up an image in this way takes a lot of patience.

- Make a LOT of quick studies but spend a LOT of time on your final work. Spend a hundred hours on a painting.