Good Girl Gone Bad? Bad Girl Gone Badder? Or Just A Bad Painting?

Question:

Good Girl Gone Bad? Bad Girl Gone Badder? Or Just A Bad Painting?

I honestly can seldom tell, when I??m doing one of these surreal portraits, if it ??works?? as a painting or not. The ??moon?? matches her hair but isn??t consistent with the natural looking bricks. I like this ??moon?? but ... mix and match is sometimes a bit tricky to pull off. It??s a hell of a lot easier to do some stupid ??normal?? portrait than it is to play around with altering skin tones, etc.

Something is amiss with this Miss. So, what to do?

http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/pic/...

(She isn't really bad. She's just the intense type and she??s based on a photograph of an old girlfriend of mine.)

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2 weeks ago
Darbin, you might want to look through these other portraits I've done before suggesting that I try to 'do' Lichenstein art. I think I perfer 'doing' myself.

2 weeks ago
The other portraits:

http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/gall...

1 week ago
1. There is nothing wrong with the perspective. This pose was taken directly from a photograph of an old girlfriend.

2. Her face is in the center of the painting for two reasons: The canvas is only twelve inches wide and the portrait is large. I couldn't move her to one side or the other without making her head and face much smaller.

3. What I figured out was that her lips are too 'pronounced' and I toned the color down somewhat. The 'moon' was too large and I made it smaller. And she simply had way too much hair and I painted some of it out.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 2 weeks ago
Darbin, you might want to look through these other portraits I've done before suggesting that I try to 'do' Lichenstein art. I think I perfer 'doing' myself.