I tried another way of creating false color painting. But now that I look at it I think it might be creepy. Did I enter the uncanny valley?
I tried another way of creating false color painting. But now that I look at it I think it might be creepy. Did I enter the uncanny valley?
I think the issue is that the mouth is laughing and the eyes are not.
Only 2% of people show top and bottom teeth when they smile (complex smile). So it is unusual / can be starting to see such a big smile like that. Marylin Monroe, Julia Roberts, Kiera Knightly and Margot Robbie all have them and do not look creepy.
Look at the way the eyes crinkle here:
But this very posed photo of Marylin Monroe looks like she is reacting to a gut punch rather than laughing, because her eyes aren’t matching her mouth’s expression:
The palette of colours all fits except the blacks used in the mouth shadows and in the eyes and eyebrows, if this were shifted into the blue hue then it would be less noticeable. Then a bit more detail in the iris and pupils would help give that life you are seeking along with the eyebrow pose shifted ever so slightly as mentioned above, to make the eyes softer.
It’s a great painting though, well executed on the light rendering and the palette chosen for the false colour concept.
Thank you, good feedback!
For sure, smile/laugh lines are in the reference and I didn’t get them right.