/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.7464457]

Why does it look flat?

[Anonymous No.7464461]

>>7464457
Because you touch yourself at night

[Anonymous No.7464466]

it needs more loomis

[Anonymous No.7464521]

>>7464457
because there's no depth? there's literally a wall behind them anon

[Anonymous No.7464540]

>>7464521
Not an argument

[Anonymous No.7464546]

>>7464540
ah I see it's my mistake, I thought you were stupid but it turns out you're simply mentally ill, my bad

[Anonymous No.7464550]

>>7464546
I accept your seething concession

[Anonymous No.7464554]

>>7464457
That’s how portrait photography is supposed to look.

[Anonymous No.7464558]

>>7464546
Kek

[Anonymous No.7464562]

>>7464457
Trying to avoid Rembrandt lighting.

[Anonymous No.7464575]

>>7464457
They're American evangelicals, i.e. judeophilic heretics, which is why the painting appears to lack substance.

[Anonymous No.7464793]

>>7464457
Because it looks like a formal photograph, it isn’t trying to convey anything.
>Are the colors appropiate and vibrant? Yes
>Are the proportions good? The lighting? The brush strokes?
Excepcionally so, yes
>Does it try to say something? Is the piece moving in any way?
Hell no, it’s lame

[Anonymous No.7464832]

Values

>>7464540
Values

Learn values

[Anonymous No.7464837]

Likely used a photograph as reference.

[Anonymous No.7464961]

>>7464832
Do I really need to paint colored folks?

[Anonymous No.7465252]

>>7464961
Well you probably can't paint for shit anyways, so I wouldn't worry about it

[Anonymous No.7465271]

>>7464457
Lack of core/cast shadows, and highlights.

[Anonymous No.7465275]

>>7464457
Cause its trying to be photograph, adding unnecessary depth would do nothing to the image.

[Anonymous No.7465280]

>>7464457

[Anonymous No.7465512]

lighting, specifically an overabundance of front fill light, which was typical of photographs of the time
loomis was like rockwell, and relied heavily on photo ref to deliver results

[Anonymous No.7465514]

>>7464457
It's a portrait, it's not meant to be dynamic

[Anonymous No.7465527]

>>7465280
it still looks flat

[Anonymous No.7465528]

>>7465280
Woah! I can see 3d with one eye.

[Anonymous No.7465539]

>>7464457

[Anonymous No.7465562]

>>7464457

That's just what white people look like.

[Anonymous No.7465596]

>>7465512
it's also a photo taken by some min wagie so you've got another layer of digitization and shitty lighting slathered on top.

[Anonymous No.7465702]

>>7465562
like trapped demons?

[Anonymous No.7466059]

>>7464457
values are flattened down into a small range so you dont get much of a sense of separation between foreground and background, that and they are also just standing against a flat wall from a flat upfront angle so there's no kinda leading line or vanishing point at work to give a sense of dimensionality

[Anonymous No.7466230]

>>7465562
Like upstanding church goers?

[Anonymous No.7466233]

>>7464540
>the marshals all have the exact same midstep pose
always looked stiff and awkward to me. they look like they're pretending to walk, ie. just posing for a picture rather than actually walking

[Anonymous No.7466880]

>>7466230
Like they're bored out of their wits and pretending to care about their appearance as a nuclear archetype while their many mental illnesses and personality disorders (both real and made-up to score tumblr points) threaten to tear the very cheap, Chinese-made dollar-store fabric of their lives apart at any given nanosecond, leading to alcoholism for the mother, drug-abuse by the kids, a distant-father whose already got another family lined up in another city, and a house of broken memories.

Herp a derp.

[Anonymous No.7466885]

>>7466233
you're retarded

[Anonymous No.7466888]

>>7466880
reddit

[Anonymous No.7466985]

>>7466888
You're right. This whole family probably is on Reddit, too.

[Anonymous No.7467051]

>>7465539
so it was really just values

[Anonymous No.7468118]

>>7467051

[Anonymous No.7468287]

>>7466880
Go back

[Anonymous No.7468784]

>>7466233
I believe they are marching. but even marching the 4 men wouldn't have the EXACT same pose so it looks dumb

[Anonymous No.7468976]

>>7465539
needs a piss filter

[Anonymous No.7469103]

>>7465252
GOTTEM

[Anonymous No.7469147]

>>7468976
eh, the light is from stained glass windows with a lot of cool colors so i figure more neutral light side, and warmer reflected light from a room full of wood pews and flooring.

[Anonymous No.7469205]

>>7465280
Faster.

[Anonymous No.7469208]

>>7464457
perhaps the brush strokes? a lot of thick, straight lines. i wouldnt describe it as flat though. check your attitude at the door little stuff before u get ur biscuit buttered.

[Anonymous No.7470763]

>>7466880
nigcel

[Anonymous No.7470768]

>>7464457
Wait a min, Alex Ross was just copying Loomis?

[Anonymous No.7470876]

>>7464457
I'd fuck the bottom left

[Anonymous No.7473379]

>>7470876
I too have a fetish for lazy eye