Every impression helps , so don't worry about ever speaking your mind to one of my paintings :)

And thank you very much for the comment!

Ah Caravaggio, the guy who loves stark contrasts and heavy shading, but a hidden light source, whereas all his imitators tend to put the light source in the paintings.

It is a little odd with the smoothness, but he's known for being very smoothe. However, there's also some more crisp detailings, which probably need to be refined a little more.

Otherwise, it's about damned time we see a study of one of the master painters of the Renaissance here. I should attempt to do one of my replicas of Van Gogh's Sunflowers.

"Otherwise, it's about damned time we see a study of one of the master painters of the Renaissance here."

This.^^

Thank you very much, and well, i wouldn't say putting a lightsource into the painting isn't neccessarily a worse way to go. But i guess that counts for everything in regards to drawing and painting. :P

And i will take it to heart to add a bit of crispness on top of it for future ones.

Also, i think you should, can be rather relaxing to just take some time and copy a painting that you love :)

If you're doing a true Caravaggio, it can't have the light source. That's his thing. If you're doing the imitation Caravaggio, then it does have the light source.

Sorry, flexing my art history muscle, here.

Thanx. I should. It would be an interesting study to attempt to do Van Gogh. He was one of my influence when it came to how I paint hair and or fur, or why a lot of my images have a lot of color.

However, I will have to do an imitation of the real painter who pretty much taught me everything about painting, since I was little girl. And his name is Gary. My mother went out with him and he taught me how to do watercolor and how to quickly paint trees, misty landscapes, and of course, all the dried fruit still art that I learned as a kid.

It helped me do an exact replica in acrylic of Van Gogh's Dutchess...when I was 10 years old. And I'm not kidding, it's exact. I need to find that picture some time. It's in my stash somewhere.

That and I should post up the image of my giant oil painting that I did that was all color play and hatch marks in abstract. First thing I've ever done that was 7 feet tall too.

Oh, yeah, if you mean it like that then sure you would leave the lightsource out. I was assuming a bit of a broader sense, with people having studies caravaggio extensivel, and so taking on certain stylistic choices, but staying away from copying every single one of them. For example Rembradt, who would certainly live at right time to have heard of caravaggio, and took on some of the choices of caravaggios , though i'm not sure if he actually saw his paintings or picked those up another way. And he definately had a knack for putting his lightsource into paintings and covering them with something. But, yes, if i would set out to do a painting that exactly cover what caravaggio would have done then it would be a different situation.

And you should search for those paintings , if you like them then i'd say they are certainly worth sharing :)

Wow man, i love this. Such smooth contrast and light and the way you did the cloth is pretty professional looking if you ask me. Great stuff man, great stuff.

Thank you very much :) Though don't give me to much credit, in the end a far better painter solved most of the problems initially , i just observe and try to learn from that! :P

Excellent work! Thank you for sharing!

Thanks! I'll try to stick to sharing stuff more regularly seeing that at least some people are interested in it!

For sure!!

This is one of my favorite paintings, I have a print of it on my wall.

My only main critique is that Goliath's expression doesn't seem as organic here as it does on the original. You seem to have made it a little stiffer. David looks pretty good, although his eyes seem misaligned?

Nice work on the shadows. David's torso and sword-wielding arm look especially good. Keep it up man.

Thank you.

Yes, Goliath was sort of second class part of this painting, was more interested in david on this one, since the play of shadows and light on him is far more interesting. So i spend a good bit less on Goliath, which is the reason that he doesn't appear quite on the same level of finish as the rest.

Also, double checked with the reference in regards to the eyes. They seem to be a bit more closed on my study than they are in the original, and the eyebrow on the far one is a notch to low. So, yes, well spotted there!

I don't know why you thought about not uploading this. Regardless that it's a copy, copies can still be great as long as they're true to the original concept(as well as artist, of coarse)

I'm just really picky with what i show and what i don't show. I just assumed it wouldn't be a good fit to show on here. But, you guys certainly proved otherwise so far :D

Awesome

Thank you!

You're welcome

Caravaggio did really love his decapitations. Although I guess that's kind of appropriate given his personality lol

haha yup!

David and Golyat, historically correct.

In case you ever want to toss it away for another day?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKhnCUXMrG8