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Nad4r — Portrait of Marina Nery
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Published: 2016-01-27 14:45:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 97916; Favourites: 2026; Downloads: 1384
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Painting video teaser - www.facebook.com/iraklinadar/v…Full video process with notes - gumroad.com/l/vUXV
Reference Photo - i.imgur.com/aGXTfYj.jpg by www.paulmorelstudios.com/
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I hope you don't mind-- I did a portrait inspired by your portrait. 
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I don't care about what people say, your works are great.
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The method you use is not different from tracing. The fact that you need to setup your reference and your canvas with the same dimensions (moving together like a mirror) and you even need a hotkey to reset both views in case that one of them gets misplaced, it should be more than enough to prove how much you rely on that setup to trace the reference (I also like how you hide that part of the screen on twitch for obvious reasons). I invite everyone to try it to understand how it works.
I'm still waiting for a tutorial where your reference is static and outside of Photoshop. Obviously you won't do that because you don't have enough skill to draw just by using your eyes. You need your tracing setup in Photoshop to do the job.
I was your fan (impressed by your "accuracy", not the rendering part) until I saw how you do it. Now I feel scammed. Render an hyper-realistic face is not hard, just tedious. The hard part is draw the reference in an accurate way and that's the part where you cheat super hard. You are lucky that most of your fans are not artists and they don't understand how your tracing method works because they don't have enough knowledge about Photoshop. Regardless of what people say, you are not photo-bashing anything, what you do is tracing with your mirror setup.
If anyone decides to try that mirror tracing setup, remember to work with a big resolution and zoom in a lot so the margin of error is minimum (it's like trace with a microscope, even if you are 1 pixel off it will look great when you zoom out).
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I don't understand? Using a reference image isn't tracing. Why would it be? Is using the grid method also tracing then?
I don't believe you're less of an artist, because you don't paint "from your imagination" (Not sure how to phrase that, english isn't my first language) How does it make a difference if it's a person standing still for 2 hours, or if it's a photograph of a person standing still?
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he is tracing from the refrence image. idk what ever your first language is but tracing means tracing- it means you did not even try to recreate the photo yourself.
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Just check out his other works. You'll see he is skillful enough to create variations from source photos. And he has some originals as well.
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DaVinci always said "Whatever works" and i'm sure if some of the classic artists were alive today, they would trace and do anything necessary for the final result. Remember the camera obscura.
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What?Are you sure?:0
I looked at both images and I still noticed a lot of differences.
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Awesome work speechless . I dont understand what is peoples problem. Just bcoz he is excellent at his skills, why do ppl bad mouth.
And what is wrong in paining photo realistic or taking reference from real. Its important. even the so called " original painting" are reference from/of real ppl photos or in live. Plz stop judging him, if you dont know the process.
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Muito linda. Olhar penetrante e expressão do tipo: _Cale-se! Ninguém te perguntou nada!
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Holly craaapp!!! I couldn't believe that ut's painted till I took a look at other portraits and focused on some of their details!! This is truely amazing !! You got the skill and not any skill. You deserve more than just a watch!
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I like your skill, but sometimes the original photo is too similar and already perfect..
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this clearly isn't a painting, lol. she probably used liquify and maybe touched up a few things
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Painting video teaser - www.facebook.com/iraklinadar/v…
Full video process with notes - gumroad.com/l/vUXV
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the real problem when you do this with digital is that first of all if is a real hyperrealistic painting no one would belive that, and second, why you have to do hyperrealistic with digital without adding a style? There is already the photo!
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For study reasons it is a good thing to once in a while attempt to replicate something as closely as you possibly can. You will not as you say create an original art work. But the attempt will help you get a good eye for very slight nuances that you might not have seen with a quicker more artistic rendering. And you can't really fault people for being amazed, painting this required considerable skill. I have a hard time seeing the point of being an artist if all you ever do is copying other peoples photograps but if it makes people happy it's all good. Obviously Nad4r loves beauty, so that is what she paints. I have nothing derogatory to say about that.
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That's absolutely right! But even when doing a study would be nice to challenge ourself a little more and find a way to reinterpret the image we are studying!
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Since Nad4r's comment section is not a message board I decided to send a reply in a pm instead. I hope you don't mind.
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I thought it was a picture!! Omg you ARE SO talented
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and such talent here, in my opinion is wasted.
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Your painting skill can achieve unbelievably photo realistic people...I wish I could do this!
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Gosh, I have seen some really good artist but your work is just breath taking. Your skills are something I definitely will work towards !
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this is some startling detail at work here holy smokes! Great work!
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OMG THIS LOOKS SOOOOO REALL!! O_O AWESOMEEE!!!
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