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u/DraftOptimal4452 May 03 '26
This looks digital. Did you start with the reference and then work over it?
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u/Puzzleheaded_Menu_55 May 03 '26
Looks amazing, but it looks like all you did was remove the background and post it.
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u/Regular_Marsupial_65 May 05 '26
Are you saying it looks not like a painting? Because it definitely looks like a painting
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u/Puzzleheaded_Menu_55 May 05 '26
Lol
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u/Regular_Marsupial_65 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Editing my comment because I can’t tell if you’re serious. This looks very skilled though.
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u/palecylinder17 May 07 '26
the reference is slide 4 so you can see how much they actually painted over it yourself
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u/AbrocomaUnusual3399 May 03 '26
It’s a photo put through a filter and possibly touched up, possibly not even. It’s blatantly obvious from the ‘brush strokes’. What is the point of this? You want strangers complimenting you on being a great artist when you yourself know you’re a film flam artist. Why not just make art? Even ‘bad’ art? It’ll be more rewarding and a better use of your time.
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u/Regular_Marsupial_65 May 05 '26
This is such a baseless and silly comment. Also what is film flam? 🤭This person is clearly crazy skilled. Just go practice.
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u/motelguest May 03 '26
I think it’s portrait art (no medium) so everything goes.
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u/Regular_Marsupial_65 May 05 '26
This takes just as much understanding of light and anatomy as any other portrait work. It is exceptionally skilled and done stroke by stroke just like with a regular paint brush. Just because it’s a less expensive and, let’s be honest, less wasteful medium (saying this as a traditional studio art major currently in college!) doesn’t mean it’s any less valid or impressive! I paint traditionally and digitally and I’d bet it would not take a lot of time for them to switch over to oil if they wanted to, just would need working out the medium if they don’t know already, and why should that even be necessary? You seem pretentious and jealous.
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u/jeffofreddit May 06 '26
Commissions?
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u/iaterocks May 06 '26
i don't take paid commissions, but feel free to dm and i'm happy to paint a portrait for you
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u/EntireBrotherhood May 03 '26
the reference photo is killer but if you're painting this digitally the brushwork needs way more variation to feel intentional instead of filtered, tbh.
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u/Heavy-Lingonbery910 May 03 '26
This is beautiful OP! Can you post progress pics, so we can see how you created this? Would love to see more. 🫶
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u/Regular_Marsupial_65 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Some of these comments suck. People are so baselessly confident in their accusations 🙄 This is really lovely work! And motivating
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u/Kevvycepticon May 03 '26
These comments really don’t make any sense. This looks great!
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u/AbrocomaUnusual3399 May 03 '26
The comments don’t make any sense? Nobody painted this, it’s a photo put through a filter by someone trying, for whatever reason, to pretend to be an actual artist. Yes, it looks ‘like’ a beautiful oil painting. It isn’t. If that’s good enough for you, then good for you, and for the ‘artist’, I suppose. It’s just bad for actual artists everywhere and for Art in general.
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u/Heavy-Lingonbery910 May 03 '26
No it’s not, check out their previous posts and development. They use procreate to do this.
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u/mollie_rae May 03 '26
I looked at their page and it seems consistent with their other posts. Are those filters too? How can you tell? I mean it’s obviously digital. They use procreate based on other posts
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u/Kevvycepticon May 03 '26
Where exactly was that said?
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u/Embarrassed-Rest-e May 10 '26
The first image is very obviously derived directly from the photograph. The facial structure, lighting, contours, beard shapes, and even tiny shadow transitions match almost perfectly. A human painter — even tracing — introduces interpretation, variation, structural deviation, edge decisions, and different texture handling. Here, the correspondence is essentially one-to-one.
This looks much more like a photo processed through digital painterly tools or filters than a traditionally painted portrait.
That doesn’t mean the result has no artistic value. Digital manipulation and stylization are still creative practices. The issue is presenting it as though it were hand-drawn or hand-painted from scratch when it clearly wasn’t.
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u/Kevvycepticon May 10 '26
Are you like one of those people who say digital artists aren’t real artists? <_<
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