cahn | Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 20

I totally thought of Fritz and MT's ghost! I just had higher priorities for my own requests, but I'm absolutely seconding this request! (And I'm sure

cahn is thirding it.)

There are plenty of monkeys in contemporary art; not least, the monkeys on the wall of the so-called Voltaire room in Sanssouci! But don't ask me for more examples--I'm supposed to be working for the next few hours, and then I have a German quota to meet, lol.

I added all of this to my ever growing list! I have never drawn a monkey or seen one up close! This will be... interesting. The one with the statue and the one with MT would probably look best as full illustrations and, since there should be better photos of those places somewhere, I'll be able to practice my background drawing skills as well :'D

I started painting Fredersdorf today! The background is done and I'll do my best not to screw up the face tomorrow :D after asking my boss, i ended up opting for acrylic paint after all. He'll probably get a glossy varnish though, so he'll look real fancy (provided I don't mess up). One thing I'm already liking way more about this one after my last acrylic piece is the size! The Katte picture is 60x60cm and this one is only 24x30. That makes handling it a whole lot easier and I can actually work at a desk instead of covering my apartment in old newspapers and crouching on the floor :'D

I just read a somewhat mean sounding article about how no portrait ever got Fritz's nose right, so as soon as I'm done with my exam next week (this class has been over since late June, I don't remember shit, shoot me), I'll probably do some digital sketches of Fritz with the death mask as a reference to figure out how to portray him at different ages. I feel like that might be fun and I want to get the nose right :'D Might combine that with drawing him with Heinrich. Just a small-ish (meaning: non-shaded) digital piece to get a grip on how to draw their uniforms.

I have never drawn a monkey or seen one up close! This will be... interesting.

Wouldn't want you to be bored!

Seriously, anything you draw will be awesome, but if you ask for suggestions

with the death mask as a reference

I did notice the nose in the death mask is rather more prominent than in the portraits! I could see toning it down a bit. Plus which, I don't think he sat for many portraits, so being mean to the artists is a little unfair, lol. (As Voltaire would point out, you have to stop talking, and that's hard. :P)

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.

The article was less mean to the artists (only to some copies which were preeetty bad) and more mean to Fritz :'D

Ahhh. Okay, that makes more sense.

I mean, I get it, sometimes you gotta be mean to Fritz, but I don't even think his nose was THAT ugly...

Gotta admit, my first reaction when I saw the death mask was, "Wow, I can see why that doesn't make it into the portraits." :P

Incidentally, EC's favorite picture of him, still hanging in Schonhausen, has a very nearly forehead-continuing nose in profile, that, if you ask me, looks equally unattractive, just in a different way, lol.

Look, all the visitors agreed that his eyes were his best feature, and even the intense stare we've figured out was at least 50% frantic compensation for severe nearsightedness. :D

"Hot or not" reports are an important part of our fandom! Fortunately, they were also extremely important to envoys and other travelers in a pre-photography age.

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

Lol, omg. Yeah, that's kind of the whole point of a baby face!

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.

Even your mistakes are so advanced my unartistic self can only half follow the explanation! Color me impressed, and patiently anticipating the finished product (and still very much admiring the dogs, although not to a degree that leads me to get yelled at,

cahn. ;) Quota has been met for today!)

My dude. He is TWO YEARS OLD in this painting, what was Pesne supposed to do!?

hahahaha! Yeah.

Speaking of painting, an update from the Fredersdorf front

Aw, I'm sorry it's so frustrating! Like mildred I have no art background and can barely follow, but I get the "it was right and now it is screwed up!" thing and :((((( Of course please do other mediums if it's less frustrating for you -- we want you to have a happy time doing these :) But I'm sure it will be amazing when it's done!

Also, I love your icon :D

Yes I am absolutely thirding :DD

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