Painting: Franco-Flemish School (Early 15th Century) - Profile Portrait of a Lady
The black and white pencil sketch (below) is a study of this painting examining the edges and tones of the lady's face.
So far, scanning seems to be the best method though not as good as I would like.
Unfortunately, the scanner recorded the skin tones rather coarsely. The digital versions are unacceptable so far. When trying to adjust this in photoshop, if I lighten or soften the highlights, the dark values wash out and then all of the fine skin tones are lost.
I also have problems photographing my paintings in color; they go dark and when I lighten them in photoshop it never looks like the original painting.
I need to be able to make good digital black/white and color photos. What am I doing wrong? My photography is usually exceptional.
Can anyone offer some help?
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Okay. I have learned something about anatomy. The neck is never vertical to the ground. He always is on a light angle into the collar bone.
So I copied an artist's masterpiece correctly...but anatomically incorrect.
Well, I'm not oing to re draw this for I copied it correctly ... NOT.
Confusing.
PD
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