Made some real progress on the face today. For some reason, adding more detail to the glasses made everything look a little better. I keep layering on shading and facial creases, etc; but it's hard to shade without making his face look dirty. I don't know why this is. Maybe it's a blending issue? Then again, once I get the shading dark enough to my liking, blending it inevitably lightens it up. My only thought is to maybe wait until the paint dries a bit and then try to darken the shading.
Main issues: Jaw line, lips. Dirty-looking face? Does it look smudgy? Maybe I'm too close to the project. I'm getting close, but I want this painting to be as spot-on as it can be. Close just isn't good enough. Finally, I stopped fiddling with the face and moved on to his uniform. Oh man, the color on the uniform is going to be difficult. I know in my mind that the uniform is a navy blue. But in this old picture, it's a faded greenish color. Now, I've based my coloring of the face on the photo, so I must base the uniform color off of it too. This is one of those instances where it's very important to paint what you see and not paint what you think you see.
I wish I would have taken this picture from a different angle. It looks funny because it's too far and tilted to the left. Better picture tomorrow I swear. Anyways, my good friend Rudi has brought to my attention that his mouth needs to be lengthened. So... darker shadows. Longer mouth. More work on uniform. To be continued tomorrow!
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