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(C) 2011 All Rights Reserved, Birgitte Gustavsen

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Geh. This took a lot longer than what you would expect from a bust portrait...with a twist mind. I think I've reached the wall in terms of what I can do for this image for now, maybe with practice and some distance I may make it better. I hope to return to it one day, so if anyone feels like giving constructive feedback or critique, you are very welcome

I would be particularly interested in anything that would help making the skin more lively, the faces more expressive, and that chest more realistic

The fact that I had to colour it three times probably has a lot to answer for the slow progress.

In the first I had two strong light sources from right and left, and couldn't get it to look alright.
Then I went experimental and tried in in black and white with intention of colouring it though that way. Which is when I discovered that overlay and multiply colouring really disagrees with my colouring needs.
This is it's current look. I wish I could get a meatier look on the skin, but for now this may be the limit to my current abilities.

This is the worked out version from these concepts [link]

I've filed this under surreal rather than horror/macabre, because despite what a fair few will call creepiness, I don't actually mean for it to be that way. It's just that the concept in my mind had a limited number of ways to be expressed, and I wanted to avoid using conventional masks, which left me with this.

It's not that terribly complicated, the face you show the world may not always, or quite often, reflect the feeling inside. It can feel a bit deceptive, but it's not always possible to do what you want or even what you need. If I screamed even a fraction of the times I've felt like it, there would be a lot of worried people in the world.

Description
(C) 2011 All Rights Reserved, Birgitte Gustavsen

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Geh. This took a lot longer than what you would expect from a bust portrait...with a twist mind. I think I've reached the wall in terms of what I can do for this image for now, maybe with practice and some distance I may make it better. I hope to return to it one day, so if anyone feels like giving constructive feedback or critique, you are very welcome

I would be particularly interested in anything that would help making the skin more lively, the faces more expressive, and that chest more realistic

The fact that I had to colour it three times probably has a lot to answer for the slow progress.

In the first I had two strong light sources from right and left, and couldn't get it to look alright.
Then I went experimental and tried in in black and white with intention of colouring it though that way. Which is when I discovered that overlay and multiply colouring really disagrees with my colouring needs.
This is it's current look. I wish I could get a meatier look on the skin, but for now this may be the limit to my current abilities.

This is the worked out version from these concepts [link]

I've filed this under surreal rather than horror/macabre, because despite what a fair few will call creepiness, I don't actually mean for it to be that way. It's just that the concept in my mind had a limited number of ways to be expressed, and I wanted to avoid using conventional masks, which left me with this.

It's not that terribly complicated, the face you show the world may not always, or quite often, reflect the feeling inside. It can feel a bit deceptive, but it's not always possible to do what you want or even what you need. If I screamed even a fraction of the times I've felt like it, there would be a lot of worried people in the world.