Success of a portrait is determined in the block in stage - our ability to "read" the reference, to simplify big shapes and to compress the values is essential, especially when we paint wet-on-wet.
AI didnβt democratize art.
Artists did.
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Still far from finished, but I probably wont have time to work on this for a while.
thought it would be cool to see some more lightning magic from Richter