Even the best studio lights can struggle to capture sharp results on moving subjects. It’s got nothing to do with shutter speed and everything to do with flash duration.
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Camera: Canon 40D
Lens: Canon 24-105L
Aperture: f8
Shutter Speed: 1/200th sec
ISO: 400
File type: RAW
Flash: Canon 580EXII
Flash Mode: E-TTL
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This episode covers sketching, how to properly sharpen a pencil, and ways to hold a pencil.
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Constable i think he is the best painter for realistic paintings, granted he mainly worked with landscapes but they look so real that i would want him
by teaching myself at home …
Practice is the key. Take photos out of magazines, or old photos of yourself or your family, or even better if you can get someone you know to sit for you, and just copy them down onto the canvas. Acrylic isn’t the best medium to use because it isn’t easy to blend on canvas, and it doesn’t give a very natural look that you normally want for portraits. You could try using oil or water colour instead, oil’s easier but quite expensive, and watercolour’s cheap but you have to be fast.If you really want to work in acrylic then I’d reccommend havig tons of colours mixed up in various shades and using lots of different tones gradiated so as not to make the shading look sudden and blocky. Light and shade are the most important parts of painting, so when you’re trying to get down the shape of a face, don’t do outlines of the nose and mouth like a cartoon, use shadow and highlights to bring out the shape. If you can’t make out a feature just using light and shade, you’ve not done it right.
Best of luck.
Take a look at
http://www.firstpreswheaton.org/0723081558.jpg
Do you know who this is?
Automatic Best Answer if you can find another copy of this exact portrait online, like in Google images.
President Wheaton of Wheaton College in Michigan.
I think my painting and drawing is good but for some reason the picture never looks like the person it’s supposed to be.
Do you know of any way I can make my paintings look like the people there of or is it just a matter of practise???
Yeah I have struggled with that as well. I would try to draw someone and it would always have something about that was never quite right. One thing to remember is to let your mind forget you are painting/drawing a face. Focus on the lines, shadows, highlights rather than thinking about whether or not you are painting an eye or lips. The way our minds think something should be drawn is usually different than the way you actually do it.
One good practice is to take about an 8"x10" photo (or around that, it is just easier when it is a bigger face rather than tiny features)(one you can draw on) and put a grid over it.. try to keep the boxes not too big or too overly small, I would say for 8×10 do like 1/2" sides to 1" max. Then make the same dimension grid on a blank piece of paper or canvas and then go box by box. It sounds elementary, but it seriously is a very good way to focus more on the elements rather than trying to make an eye/ear/ etc.. Really try to focus on what is really within each box and what colors are represented and where it is lighter, darker, transitioning.. And I would suggest drawing all the lines first down to every last detail like the glint in the eyes and even putting marks for where the color darken or lighten.
Like many others have said, it’s not a photo, so it won’t be exact 
Good Luck!
any artist that do photography work on portrait shadows?
I’m not understanding your question, and others must not be either.
Please be much more specific as to what you mean.
steve
Specifically, on how to turn the lights on (is there an order?), and just general tips. The room has enough amps.
Ask the studio manager to go over all the various safety rules with you.
What do you call large portraits where individual pixels of the portrait are actually smaller photographs? I’ve seen this only a few times recently in magazines. For example, the large portrait is of a person but each pixel of this portrait is actually a smaller photograph.
Just to clarify, its not each pixel that is a smaller photograph but a smaller region of the image. Usually, the smaller images are a small set of pictures that are randomly repeated throughout the larger image, with a color cast added to each picture to match the color information of the part of the large image.
When viewed from far, you’re seeing the general color cast of the smaller image but can’t make out the details, so it merges to form a large image.
This needs to be done by a computer so it can randomly arrange the photos and color them appropriately.
If you want more info, history, and a link to the software necessary to create photomosaics, look at the provided wikipedia link.