Yugoslav partisan Albina Mali-Hočevar.
Made for practicing portraits. Timelapse in comments.
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Nevermind, the timelapse is too large for this site to handle.
Here is the original reference instead.
https://xcancel.com/Vostok_1111/status/2015601388252721195
If you wish to watch the timelapse here it is on xitter.
That was really neat to see. I give my chef who is trying to learn to draw lessons here and there when it’s slow and I bet if I got him to film himself drawing something and I sped up the footage it would help me help him. It was interesting seeing the process, your approach to linework is kinda the inverse of mine. I start with the frame right eye and bridge of the nose each time and work my way out, I dont frame the face until the end but stylistically we come to similar end results. Although I havent drawn a person in a really long time.
I will say that recording timelapses does help, it shows that drawing is a long process of quantitative changes layered until a complete illustration takes shape. It builds motivation for making future paintings.
It also helps to observe when and how you can change your technique, choices made early on that could have changed the whole end result.
As for my approach to linework, I will add that I sometimes skip it all together in favor of starting with blocking shapes, but that usually goes poorly if I don’t already have a strong mental image of what I want to depict.
Very nice! Reminds me of Disco Elysium portrait style. Is this meant to be in a related style, like a shared inspiration?
I would like to make a confession and say right now that I have not played Disco Elysium. This is pretty much how I paint normally.
One of the inspirations I had when I was building the foundations of my painting knowledge was J.C. Leyendecker where I really wanted to create things with defined brushstrokes, clear silhouettes and vivid colors. The resemblance to the art of Disco Elysium is a case of convergent evolution where those ideas have manifested into something similar.
I will say that the art of Disco Elysium is absolutely fantastic now that I recently discovered it, I will study it in more detail in the future and maybe lean into it’s visual language purposefully.
I accept your confession. Three Hail Marxes and one Our Friedrich, my child.
Sounds nice! Maybe there’s a general modern impressionism connection, like with Repin. Him and Leyendecker had similar influences.
You should definitely give it a play if you are into partisans and communism.
Wow! This is genuinely really cool work! It’s really interesting to look at
Thank you. I will keep painting more interesting things.
Very disco, I like it
