I think this is my favorite out of the set you just uploaded. The detail in your face is portrayed rather well.

Looks like...Vincent Van Gogh's self portraits....if you consider that a compliment ^^'

I knew it was you from the thumbnail Awesome job man.

That looks very cool. Did you treat the wood with something, or does acrylic just naturally sink into wood that way?

nawp, didn't treat it. if you use it thin with water like this, this is what happens.

the wood grain alternates between areas that are relatively denser and more porous.
so the paint will more or less absorb into one band and more or less stay on the surface of another. if you work thin enough, you can manage how this looks.

although it's easy to add more paint to cover it up thick, as well.

You totally need an afro, man.

i did that already, it's hot and uncomfortable in the summer.

Ah, well wait for winter then I guess.

you very much captured the focused "I'm glancing at myself for reference in order to paint this" look.

I only see one problem here which has less to do with the image yourself and more to do with your technique. Your tongue is TOTALLY not out. This is very important! Or, at least my high school art teacher always said so.

:I

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I tried to compliment the shirt stripes but it came off as retarded
but the shirt stripes are great anyway
<3
And everything else
<3

The wood grain so amazingly works with this particular image.

So... this stuff really looks like some of the technique I see in your gouache paintings but it's all from a couple of years back. This makes me wonder whether you were doing acrylics for a while, then went to gouache - which in turn makes me wonder, is there anything about acrylics you liked more than gouache?

this was when i was learning to paint with acrylics yep.
i didn't know about gouache then.

acrylics are expensive and impractical for me. i like that gouache can be reactivated
even after it's dry with clean brush and water. this means you never lose paint, you
can always scrub back into what you've done, and so on. it's still a fast medium, but
much more forgiving, i think.

i do think that acrylics have a wider range of values and hues, but that's not a deal
breaker for me.

your linesss
and brushworkkk
ungggg

I like how you're off center and that lovely shade of yellow best about this.

hehe, that's and old renaissance portraiture tradition, to off-center the face in a portrait *nods*

you remind me of Bobby McFerrin <3