So what do you guys think of my newest oil painting?

[Baby Bird]

http://babo-ryan.deviantart.com/art/Repose-in-Red-204342778

Something new for me. I didn't go for ultra realism, I went for more stylistic. I took a picture and changed it to my liking and this is the result. A new and interesting, more enjoyable experience painting.

I just couldn't take a good picture of the painting. Something with my painting style didn't agree with the camera and the brush strokes overwhelmed the lighting, so I finally got a decent one but the so much of the detail has been lost and looks very different (better I believe) in person. The arm got butchered in the photo (it's where most of the lighting came from). So I guess if you really want to enjoy it you got to come and see it in person. lol

Also I'm not trying to sell you guys anything. I get people telling me not to post here because they think I'm soliciting something but I'm not. The painting isn't for sale. I would just like to hear some of your thoughts. You guys are the best, you know that?

 

[Baby Bird]

Anyone willing to take a bite?

 

[Whoolpurse]

It's alright, Not really my thing, since picture arts, such as this doesn't really interest me.
However I can still see that you're talented

 

[Danik93]

Looks sweet! I like how you stayed with a few colors instead of having a total mess with loads of other colors!

 

[MegatonDesign]

cut it in half and sell it to the tate under the pseudonym Damien Hirst. Instant win.

 

[Exterminas]

While you said that you went for a more stylistic approach I can't really tell what that style is supposed to be.

The coloring? Okay. Warm colors work.

But why is the whole women looking too broad? Is that the result of the picture or is that supposed to be part of the style? If so, why not try to make that a bit clearer by including horinzontal stripes or anything similar into the background to emphazise that the blurred proportions are part of the style.

 

[Baby Bird]

By stylistic I don't really mean any style in particular. I guess just exploring my own. The background detail has been greatly lost in the camera picture. I does have horizontal stripes (to an extent). Thanks for the input! =)

Also thank you so much everyone!

 

[SilentCom]

Your painting is rather nice. Just curious, did you have someone in mind when you painted her or is the subject of your painting purely imaged by you?

 

[Heart of Darkness]

If I were doing this, I probably would have made the subject and the background use different color schemes so as to help differentiate the subject from the background. Like maybe using cooler reds and greens for the background, or going a different route and throwing more of a bluish hue back there. I might've also gone for less organic (or somewhat more organized) strokes for the background, and set a predominate direction for them (like a diagonal).

The woman might be stylized, but there still seem to be some proportion issues. She has a broad body, but it doesn't really fit with her slender neck and arms, and likewise, her slender neck doesn't seem to work with her scrunched face. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it (as you are allowed to create your own style of composing figures), it just seems...off.

There might also be an issue with the lighting here, but that might be because I can't determine where your light source actually is. The thing that jumps out at me as being the most problematic is the neck, because it seems like the back's being lit and not being affected by the hair, and that if the back is being lit, it's not doing anything to the back of the arms. If it's a top-down lighting source, which seems to be the case, the lighting on the neck makes a little more sense, but then the lighting on the arm becomes problematic. If you took a photo of the subject originally, and that's how the light fell, I'd understand. But, again, it just seems off.

Also, just a tip for posting on the forums. I'd say post your image itself to the forums, instead of a link, and then link back to your dA page through the image itself. Like this:

Spoiler: Click me.

[http://babo-ryan.deviantart.com/art/Repose-in-Red-204342778]

Just remember to scale the image so that it's not overly large, like what I had to do to get it to a more manageable size here.

 

[imnot]

Its shit.

Jokes You should have seen your face XD
Seriously though its very good.

 

[Wondermint13]

Spooky... almost looks like an Ex Girflriend of mine...

It's good mate! You can see a certain personality in the subject you have drawn and you kept your choice of colours limited, Thats a talent.
Plus, I admire anyone that can paint because I still havent moved on from classic pencil to paper drawings.
Keep it up!

Heh Captcha: Jober artist.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

It looks amazing except for the right side of her face, which looks a bit... sharp.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

It's pretty good, but her neck looks pretty long and thin, and the right side of her face is sharp

 

[manythings]

I like the name, the alliteration is evocative but it looks pink to me.

The style puts me more in mind of some kind of distortion rather than it being stylised, or a combination of the too. It's got some Uncanny elements that my eye won't accept.

I like the use of colour but I'm wondering about the background and why you made the sort of flame pattern choice. Not a criticism, more just a curio.

The hair and the dress are much more real, like a true subject rather than the face and body. Maybe it was a style choice, once again not really a criticism just a feeling I'm getting.

 

[Baby Bird]

Thanks for the nice comment about the title. It literally is a repose in red. Why uncanny elements are you talking about? I like your comment it seems very true. I'd like to know what you mean so I can improve. Thanks =)

 

[Brandon237]

It is very good, although the face looks... unnatural. The far edge is too sharp and creates an odd corner, the shadows at the neck/ cheek area make the face look too masculine. With such warm colours a smile would have been a more fitting expression.

Otherwise very good

 

[Rayne870]

That's a fine looking piece of art you've made there.

 

[unoleian]

Tough to take pictures of paintings. They tend to comes across as really flat, like an overworked pastel instead of oils, but not much that can be done about that. Setting a strong directional light low across the painting along with a less intense diffuse light (or two) overhead would bring out the brush strokes more. If those reds are pure and the highlights are much brighter than they come across in the picture, it would look quite nice in that respect. Do kind of wish the background was a little cooler, it competes with the drapery lines in the dress, but that could also just because of the picture.

I also get the uncanny thing out of it. It's in the proportions of the face to me, a little squished along the horizontal lines. The body seems a little thick for the face on it.

But that's it, I love the loose strokes and the flowing lines in the dress, with the smoother more fluid treatment of the body. It's working quite nicely.

 

[Dags90]

I don't particularly like it. The foreshortening of the left clavicle is off. The light reflecting off the hair jewels is inconsistent. The lighting on the figure is inconsistent. The background looks like it was painted around the figure rather than an actual background. I also really just don't like the color scheme at all.