Hi all, I'm finally taking the time to catalog my personal model photographs. I am planning to organize them into folders in my patreon group. I'd like to make this a regular monthly feature if you are interested. I'm not as prolific as Bryce Liston yet, but have a nice archive and am taking more and more photos every week. And I have good taste 😎 If you have any requests or ideas for model photos you are interested in, comment below. Thank you. I'm planning to do a male pro Muay Thai fighter soon. That will be epic!

With these studies I was specifically focusing on warm/cool and desaturating color to focus the highest saturation at the focal point.

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Just something I did while on a train with nothing else going on. Now I'm looking at it again, it feels like the face is too prominent and too warm. To take this further, I'd try to darken the face a little, plus darken more around the head and silhouette of the shoulders to hopefully push them further back. Of course, I could also spend time trying to get a likeness but that wasn't the goal of the exercise. It's interesting to see how chromatic/saturated this kind of material gets. I think the pink feathery stuff transmits light and makes it more intensely colourful. It was also nice to see how colour temperature can tell the story of which planes are facing in which directions. At least it seems to me that the cool blue light tells a story of what faces upwards. Since my train journey finished I could not take it further, and some things like the colour of the jewellery I did not have time to really take a go at. The film is Wittgenstein directed by Derek Jarman by the way.

Another head study with imagined top/butterfly lighting. It's nice to have an exercise that forces me to use some knowledge of planes. The likeness is not great, perhaps because the painting looks too wide and square-jawed. I also feel the form modelling in the mouth and chin is a bit confused. In terms of values, I wonder if I could have pushed some of the darks a bit darker. And finally, with imagined lighting one of the hardest things is to decide on a good shadow border shape. I ended up with something quite simple but it could have been nice to make it a bit more interesting to look at. Nevertheless, I'm still happy with it. It was fun to make and looks human!