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JuniperCake
Jan 26, 2013

neonnoodle posted:

Serious birbness indeed. Here is a line cook on his coffee break:



I love your brushstrokes and color choices. This is awesome.

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JuniperCake
Jan 26, 2013

Entenzahn posted:

I didn't get to do much drawing in the recent days so I can't post anything yet, but before this thread gets closed I just wanted to say thanks for the advice and I'll definitely try this out. When I was at that drawing workshop my teacher chided me for never including any kind of environment or background context in my sketches and this seems like a nice, easy way to work around those problems.

Yeah it's always nice to think about composition instead of working with isolated objects. Sometimes a minimalist background can do a lot to improve a piece.

Take a look at work by an artist like Rembrandt Peale or Robert Henri who do lots of portraits and you can get some examples of effective but minimalist backgrounds.

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