Katie Lofts MA Blog

 Here is the finished commissioned piece from the last few blog posts I have been working on.  I honestly don't know much more to say (I will, in fact, continue to have a lot to say about it regardless) other than I think this has to be my most detailed and best piece I've made so far.  Overall, everything I have said in previous blog posts does still apply.  For example, I think it was extremely evident the amount of struggle I went through trying to adequately paint the younger girl's face compared to anything else. Even now, when I look at this piece, I really do not love how that part of the painting turned out at all.  Individually, I find that the features of her face are not too bad. I still do not think that, for example, her eyes or lips etc are painted objectively 'wrong'. But still, when put all together as they are now, I cannot quite describe fully why I experience the dislike I do towards this face.  I have indeed asked numerous people of diff...

 I am still working on this biggest artpiece yet as I have been continuing my posts about it. Though, I think I am very much nearly finished and only need to paint a few more things. Something I wished to discuss on here is how I've become quite, I would say, efficient in aquiring my references and pushing these references even further to aid in my workflow.  I don't really know what to call the technique I have gotten myself using within the latter half of my art piece, but I feel like it was definitely inspired by the accumulation of Ross Draws art tutorial videos I've watched over the years on Youtube. There's one that really stuck in my head both now when writing this and when actually painting my piece, which is this one: This video is based around how to paint landscapes, which might not really apply to my portraiture project at first glance. I don't know when I even first watched it - at least 4 years ago now - but this is the video that introduced me to the ...