BEIIIILLLAAAA.
CAN I BUYYY THIS OFF OF YOUUUU?

PLEEEAAASSSEEEEEEE?

and I'm Jiyen BTw.

And you make icons show up by doing :icon Jiyen: (Without the space. Replace 'Jiyen' with whatever name you want, and you'll end up with this -->

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ohhhhhhhhhhhhh my god. OHHHHHHHHH MY YOU.
MICHAELA I LOVE THIS. I LOVE THIS TIMES A BILLION.
TIMES BEER.
TIMES ANOTHER BILLION.
TIMES ANOTHER.
AND YEAH.

This is fabulous.
You are soooo incredibly talented.
I love shadeing on his face, with the really hard contrast you know? It's great how it changes from light to dark so quickly.
I also really love this sorta loose painting style, with the quick, effortless-seeming brush strokes. Kinda like the impressionists
BUT the thing I love the most is the background. I know you're not all for abstraction, BUT YOU'RE SO FRIGGIN GOOD AT IT. OH LORD. I'M SO JEALOUS OF YOU. Everyone's all like, "Abstraction? Easy-peasy!" But to make it look GOOD is something else. AND YOU TO IT LIKE IT'S NOTHING. AHHHUGHUGH

I actually cannot offer any suggestions to this painting, because for me it's perfection. You mustmustmust do more portraits like this. PLEASE DDD:

Is this oil or acrylic paint, by the way? O:

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Thank-you!!!!
Glad you like it! Your comments are all soo in-depth and wow, whereas I didn't try for most of that, it was mostly by accident hehe. I won't spoil the illusion though
The background - yeah, I don't mind it either. It IS sort of abstract, but I thought that I really needed something to balance out the face instead of just negative space, and to do that properly, it needed colour, and to do /that/ it couldn't be realistic. In the original photo there are all these grey buildings behind him, so I did a sort of take on that, with the sun setting on them. That also put some explanation behind why there are buildings in his glasses (which he totally pulls off).
Thanks again though! And it's acrylic - I don't yet have enough patience for oils. XD

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Ahh! Jiyen! I always forget!!
And the icon thing! I /knew/ that! Grr.
Buying things? That so pro, I can't do that. Pick any picture, though and I'll paint it for you for Christmas

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:3

You are win times a billionthousandtrillionwin.
^0^

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3∑~</sup>

Awesome!!!

(and yes it was such a great movie!)

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Thank-you!
Yeah, it was fantastic.

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so sick! is that oil?

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Cheers!
No, I usually like oil, but I'm pretty sure this is acrylic

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