/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3060181
>Although i did notice your drawing skills or at least your proportions are pretty fucking spot on,
I'm cheating on almost all of them. Essentially all of the images are manipulated and edited and framed in photoshop, printed, graphite transfer to canvas, paint. I'll generally start prep 5-10 new canvases a week and have them lined and ready to paint. Pic related becomes >>3055885 for example

>but the values and feel of the forms is not there.
I've kid of been chasing that in a way. Not to say that I necessarily COULD make a technically perfect or impressive painting if I wanted to, part of the whole goof of the process that has been allowing me to keep grinding is accepting that I'm taking a perfectly good image and making it worse with my efforts. Laziness is definitely a bit of a theme in the series, and getting good form and value takes time. I put a considerably more amount of time and layers on the face of >>3055815 than most of the others and I feel pretty gay in a good away about how most of it looks.

Also the process is generally a "use every part of the buffalo" thing with the paint in a way that is self-sabotaging on purpose maybe? Again, I don't mean to say that I necessarily could nail values and color if I tried, but a lot of the look is that I'm not necessarily trying that hard.

>It is pretty weird.
yeah hopefully in a way that'll work.

>I just picked up traditional painting this month.
Nice. I had never done an acrylic painting before last May or whenever. Went to art school and stuff as a kid but I was mostly into pastels and printmaking. Didn't really paint or draw anything at all from age 19-27.

>Having a supper hard time maintaining forms and mixing the appropriate value and temperature color.
Yeah I'm probably not the guy to give any super useful tips on how to improve your technique. But it's always good to remember that literally anything is better than nothing.