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Submitted: November 1, 2011
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Scream Iby *Maverchare

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Surreal

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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.

Critique by ~havenlight Apr 11, 2012, 1:40:30 PM

This is truly exceptional, and no matter how many times an artist will try to depict the clarity and the refined message of what a human's inner desire actually represent, it can never compare to the unique emotion conveyed by each and every single artist.

Behind every work of art, is an artist trying to understand why they were put on this earth, and why they lay silent so easily when every moment of motivation they ever felt screams for them to do nothing they have ever done before.

I commend you my friend, a job well done.
Your friend, Haven.
: )

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