WIP Critique Abraham Lincoln Box-Art (1/9 Argudo Miniatures)

[kaz6120]

Hi everybody, I start box art painting for Antonio Argudo's lincoln bust, I will post WIP pics.

See also:
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/abraham-lincoln-bust-1-9.56860/

 

[kaz6120]

...and here's the current status. I started painting face. any comments, critiques and advices are welcomed as always.

 

[Sturm Grenadier]

Hello Kaz, This is some incredible painting thus far. The face is extremely lifelike. Are you working from a particular painting for your reference colors? Amazing, will follow this one. Best of luck with it. Regards, SG

 

[kaz6120]

Hi SG,
Recently I basically start from "Burnt Sienna + Naples Yellow", trying to change additional colors by each of the figure, to avoid paint in "same skintone".
In this project I use many Lincoln painting (2D paintings) as reference.

 

[phc35]

the first picture claims to be from 1862 and the 2nd 1865.He looks a whole lot emaciated in the second ,deeper facial lines. I think an earlier healthy Lincoln will look better on the box art. Well done kaze
Jay

 

[Meehan34]

Gees Kaz, your painting is getting incredible. Great work so far and heading towards your best work yet.

 

[Rompy]

Great stuff !

 

[SPrimeau]

Very nice Kaz! This will be spectacular when finished!
Scott

 

[Stephen Ward]

Kaz, Abraham Lincoln is still one of our greatest Presidents and this is a striking portrait of him. Excellent work my friend on a great and important subject. You've breathed life into something from such a long time ago.

 

[garyjd]

Very very very nice. That's a great face to sculpt.

 

[bagelman1952]

Coming along nicely

 

[antonio argudo]

Hi Kaz!
Congrats my friend, you are simply nailing it!
even though you are at the process stage, I want to give you some little tips, if I may I manipulate your picture with photoshop, here it goes!



- The eyes are slightly small, and the sclera or white too, Lincoln had very asymmetric eyes and his iris were not line up.
- the eyebrows should be darker, will increase the look expresion.
- the beard, is a kinda transparent in the center and not completely straight, also darker will look better with a few grey hairs!
- The lips, the upper lip should be more angular and not curvy, some more reflection will look better.
-maybe the light on the tip of the nose could be as I draw in PS, not sure how to describe that lol, also reinforce the wrinkle on the top of the nose!

hope this helps my friend, looking awesome cheers!

 

[kaz6120]

Jay, Mike, Rompy, Scott, Stephen, Gary, Ken, and Antonio, thanks a lot for your comments.
Thanks Jay for references, and thanks Antonio for suggestions.

Reason why I painted the eyebrows lighter color than typical image is I was referring to the portrait painting I like:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HaGgMbnj7K8/UQrQWT-_a6I/AAAAAAAAAPA/iLuup8P6G_E/s1600/Abraham-Lincoln.jpg

Agree with you Antonio, eyes should be a bit more larger, asymmetric.
I understood all the other elements, stay tuned I will post the next progress.

 

[megroot]

Excellent start.

Marc

 

[user 5827]

GREAT face...very nice

 

[Edward]

Looking great so far!

 

[bonehead]

Kaz, a great paint job on a beautiful sculpt! Awesome!

 

[Edorta]

I love the work you have made so far, Kaz. I´m very impressed with it, and as you said is very true to the portrait you took as reference.
I love your domain of facial tones and nuances.
I follow your progress, very, very interested.

Military miniatures painted by Eduardo Garcia

 

[kaz6120]

Marc, debrito, Edward, Mike, and Eduardo, Thank you very much for your compliments!
This time I'm trying to achieve oil-painting-like touches.

Here's a bit more updated version, now I'm updating the areas Antonio mentioned in the post above. Of course I'll keep on working' more.

 

[Edorta]

...way to perfection.

Military miniatures painted by Eduardo Garcia