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I have been informed that my use of the term "cartoony" would be insulting. I did not intend to insult anyone, perhaps using the term 'fantasy quality' would have been better. There are many famous artists who interpret portraits in a variety of ways. What I meant to say is that not all look like a photograph. There are many different styles and I like and respect and enjoy all these styles.
Some portraits have a magical quality I would like to capture but my efforts to do so have resulted in something that looks like (to me) too much like a cartoon. So I used the word "cartoony" to indicate something good.
What I was trying to ask is how you take a portrait from looking like a photograph to a "painting", with the magical/fantasy quality, and how do you keep it from going too far. I wondered what is in the artist's mind, what they see when they look at people are able to generate that 'magical' quality.
DJ
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