WOW!! This is "practice only"??? My goodness, I can't wait to see you really step up to the plate. Just beautiful - the jacket is
incredible!
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Originally Posted by Lisa Ober
I am indeed having a terrible time with accurate color. I only have a Koday 4.1 MP camera which not only distorts the images but also picks up even the slightest underlying red colors and magnifies them like crazy. I have tried color correcting in Photoshop (which I know quite well) but it is too time consuming to isolate certain areas for color correction when the camera is so cheap.
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I have a worse camera than you - 2 MP. Getting the enough detail was never a problem, and when I was doing only charcoal drawings, the camera was fine. But now that I am doing pastels, I realize the color this camera puts out really stinks. I can color "correct" in Photoshop, but I think there is so much more than that - there is no color fidelity - it doesn't capture the subtle shifts in color that should be there, and I can color balance all I want, but I am left with inventing an awful lot.. I'm getting a Nikon D-70 next week and am anxious to see the difference. And I'm determined to work more from life.
But I'm sensing that the whole color, palette, skin tones issue is the "holy grail" of portrait painting - extremely elusive and difficult as it depends on the subtlest shifts in hue, color temperature, chroma, and, of course, the values have to be dead-accurate.I think there are a lot of artrists who can render very well, but very few artists really achieve mastery with their overall skin tones.It is very humbling to even make the attempt.
I'm afraid to ask: how long did this one take you?