Quote from: donding on September 22, 2010, 15:32

I agree with FD....those portraits are beautiful!!

I added her as fav on Dreamstime. Hopefully she will be back. Portraiture is still the max, imho. I started doing it when I was 14 and my mom was my main subject. I had a lot of encouragement from her when she slapped me in the face since I over-emphasized her eye-bags it seems. 
Since then I took the advice of a famous French portraiture painter: picture the women 20 kgs slimmer and 20 years younger and their jewelry 20x fatter. 

Quote from: FD-regular on September 22, 2010, 17:47

Quote from: donding on September 22, 2010, 15:32

I agree with FD....those portraits are beautiful!!

I added her as fav on Dreamstime. Hopefully she will be back. Portraiture is still the max, imho. I started doing it when I was 14 and my mom was my main subject. I had a lot of encouragement from her when she slapped me in the face since I over-emphasized her eye-bags it seems. 
Since then I took the advice of a famous French portraiture painter: picture the women 20 kgs slimmer and 20 years younger and their jewelry 20x fatter. 

And with a bigger chest, LOL.  My husband once painted a portrait of his brother, his wife, and their son, using a photo as the basis.  She was pretty flat-chested, so he actually went to a lot of trouble to enlarge what she had naturally.  

So what's the first thing she says when he presents this work of art, the product of weeks of effort, to them?  Thank you, perhaps?  No.  Of course it was "Why did you make my boobs look so small?!"