The article was less mean to the artists (only to some copies which were preeetty bad) and more mean to Fritz :'D I mean, I get it, sometimes you gotta be mean to Fritz, but I don't even think his nose was THAT ugly... From an artistic point of view I definitely like it better than the forehead cotinuing nose Menzel has going on in the illustrated biography. My personal favourite part of the article was "He is looking rather cute in this painting too, even though we can conclude from this and this that he was not pretty in his youth either and his nose should have already been Like That" My dude. He is TWO YEARS OLD in this painting, what was Pesne supposed to do!? I am pretty sure that his face changed a little between 2 and 74 :'D
Speaking of painting, an update from the Fredersdorf front: I fucked up big time and now I have to redo the entire face because I'm a dumbass who thought "Hm, this tone doesn't look right, let's go over it with a transparent layer" when not all tones were laid down yet and the colour was actually correct in context. So then he was half orange and then I didn't manage to get the right colour again and now I've painted over everything below the eyes which makes it look like he's wearing some creepy facemask and I am about ready to a) cry, b) burn everything I've made and c) condemn acrylic paints to hell where they belong :'D The next piece I make is gonna be in anything but acrylic, I feel like I could do better by glueing together last week's newspapers than by painting skin in acrylic.
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Re: Fanart requests
Date: 2020-10-21 04:46 pm (UTC)My dude. He is TWO YEARS OLD in this painting, what was Pesne supposed to do!? I am pretty sure that his face changed a little between 2 and 74 :'D
Speaking of painting, an update from the Fredersdorf front: I fucked up big time and now I have to redo the entire face because I'm a dumbass who thought "Hm, this tone doesn't look right, let's go over it with a transparent layer" when not all tones were laid down yet and the colour was actually correct in context. So then he was half orange and then I didn't manage to get the right colour again and now I've painted over everything below the eyes which makes it look like he's wearing some creepy facemask and I am about ready to a) cry, b) burn everything I've made and c) condemn acrylic paints to hell where they belong :'D
The next piece I make is gonna be in anything but acrylic, I feel like I could do better by glueing together last week's newspapers than by painting skin in acrylic.