Monday, August 12, 2013

Classic Actress

We did an exercise at work where we had to design a classic actress. The point was to capture that certain type of charisma special to that era. We do these pretty fast; I think this was about an hour.

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13 comments:

  1. Unknown1:04 PM

    Did you have a little reference for this or was it pulled from your imagination?

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  2. Unknown1:05 PM

    I like it!

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  3. Unknown1:51 PM

    Very solid character!
    Also it is a great idea of an exercise, sounds like fun! Need to do it also.

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  4. Sam Nielson1:56 PM

    David: We had a folder full of reference images to pull from, but the character is a new one (not based on an existing actress).

    Dmitry: It is a good exercise, I would recommend it!

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  5. Abraham2:05 PM

    good!

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  6. Unknown2:43 PM

    Very nice Sam!

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  7. Junior Schiller3:35 PM

    Hi Sam
    Beautiful piece.

    I'm curious... when are you working on a paiting, do you start with greytones on the characters or did you used only in this one exercise?

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  8. Jason Newkirk8:38 PM

    captured really well Sam! awesome

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  9. Sam Nielson10:10 AM

    Thanks everyone!

    Junior: I usually don't paint grey tones first, but I think that's a fine way to go.

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  10. Nate Lane1:52 PM

    2 thumbs way way up! Would love to see one of these quickies in a speed-up video screen grab!

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  11. Unknown12:40 PM

    Nice!

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  12. Ben Simonsen8:11 AM

    I really love the rich oily feel this has. Amazing as always!

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  13. alan1:53 PM

    She looks like someone right out of my favorite movie era. Your work is always inspirational.

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