[GardenGnome]

Painted in Painter 8, it was mainly just practice and to see if I could even do it. I think it is Sir Edmund Hillary, the dude that climbed Everest with no oxygen. Anyway, I used his picture on the front of this April's National Geographic. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.



Here is the progression of the painting.

[Tinusch]

Pretty good, love the hair. Someone posted a pencil rendering of that photo from the National Geographic a few months ago.

[henrik]

Well on popular demand, here I am to give you some feedback.

The face anatomy is slightly off. His nose and mouth are moved towards his left. From the pic, I reckon you've tried to paint his face with his head slightly rotated away from the camera, but the nose and mouth do not follow. His right eye is a bit small, and the wrinkles above the eyebrow is very angular contributing to the anatomy being slightly off.

I also think some of the dark values in the face are not reading. Too contrasty. Keep values tighter - you can even push blacks up.

Other than this, very well done.
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[GardenGnome]

Thank you for the advice. Now I know not to take the first few steps of a painting for granted. I rushed to fast and ended up having Sloth from the Goonies.

[GardenGnome]

I did a little work on the ears, they looked unfinished.