Yes, I used a reference. It's my first time trying something like this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments and C/C are appreciated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The code doesnt seem to be working. :-k

The code doesnt seem to be working. :-k

 

 

 

Odd... Anyway, rehosted and fixed it.

Nice I can see it now. :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well im not a good painter myself, but hte lips and the nose seem a bit awkward. :-k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The nose seems flatter than usual and the lips looks like they're floating on the face.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe darken the edges of those places a bit could work?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The hair and the gown are awesome though. :thumbsup:

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It looks good and I like it but some areas just seem a bit flat and don't match the stroke pattern look of the rest of the piece (digipainting I assume?). Now, realize that I'm completely unexperienced at painting and such so you'll have to take my opinion with a grain of salt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Circled bits thingy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have absolutley no skills or programs to do this kind of thing so I just did a little circling and stuff on this. Excuse the bad handwriting; it wouldn't let me type text and I lack a tablet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On topic: The bits circled in green were areas that I felt needed a bit more blending because they looked flat. The edge of the hair and chest are fairly simple. The lips are fine for the most part but the edges of the lips need blending more than any other part IMHO. To me it looks cheaply pasted on and seems to almost float above the rest of the face. The lips also seem to be a shade too pink but you have the reference, not me :-k .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, I'm no expert at artistic anatomy so I may be talking nonsense here :^o but, to me, the eyes don't seem to be located on the same part of the face. I tried to outline what appeared to be the nose to me in the yellow. What I noticed was that the distance between what I saw as the edge of the nose and the beginning of the eye was the same or larger for the right side (her left) of her face than for the left side. The problem sits in that the tilt and positioning of her head suggests the converse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also with her eyes, the angles are different. In the red I tried to draw two lines parallel to the centerline of the face. Then I put in lines connecting the corners of her eyes. The eye on the right has a much larger tilt that the eye on the left (which is almost perpendicular to the centerline).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The eyes also seem to be too differently sized for the amount of perspective involved but that's just my opinion, I don't really have anything to back it up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The visible shoulder seems to be a tad bit wide or the upper arm a bit too thin.

It looks like you just put a photograph through some filters to me.

 

 

 

Would you like me to send you the .psd?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

imhomer: Thanks for the crits, I'll work on those. I don't have a tablet either, so I'm making do with a mouse until I get around to buying one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The brush stroke is something I'm really trying to develop. I'm looking to see just how far I can go with just calligraphic brushes, because they give me the right kind of "sketchy" feel I like to have.

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Would you like me to send you the .psd?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes please! :) How many layers is it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quit being an a*. I've seen Zon around and his work is legitimate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

@Zon: When I saw the title I thought you meant using real paints on a canvas then I saw the brush strokes and figured there was no way in hell you did that on a canvas :P I kind of like how th brush strokes flow perpendicular to each other for the most part. The lips could use a little work, and maybe define the end of her nose a bit. Right now the nose kind of reminds me of Voldemort from Harry Potter :P

 

Would you like me to send you the .psd?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes please! :) How many layers is it?

 

 

 

It's only four layers - one for a flat grey background, another for simple black outlines and the last one for all the colour, but there's a copied layer where I was experimenting with an overlay. The colours started off as three layers, one for the dress, another for everything else, and another grey layer to provide a base colour - then I flattened it and left it as is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How do you want me to send you the .psd?

 

 

 

How do you want me to send you the .psd?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't send it to him. There's no need to prove yourself to a loser like him when everyone else knows you did the work.

when you digipaint,you want every seprate color to be on a seprate layer. you want the white on the dress on one, the hair on one, the skin on one, it helps you to not mix the colors when your blending. look at the gold trim at the top of the dress, it needs to stand out more, and that can really only be achieved ona seprate layer. well, either way, looks beter then my crap digipaint, but then again, youve got some type of photoshop, ive got gimp lol...