[nightmare]

u did such a good job on the hair in the first pic! one crit tho is that there seems to be a lot of space between the bottom of her nose and her lips. also, her hand is quite small. other than that i think its gorgeous. i love the orangey hair on the second one too, and how its kind of cartoony. the character looks like he/she's gonna throw up.

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[Mime]

Here is 2 pics i made with painter, im trying to use this soft. For now i really like it but im a bit confused with all the tools
If people like janne or other painter artists could tell me what tools are really useful that would be great I really love the aspect of janne's pics but im not sure what brush she use, it looks like a mix between an airbrush and a bristle or camel hair ... if anyone can tell me i would be grateful

for these pics i mainly used the standard opaque round and opaque flat brushes and the bristle round a little
The first pic was an assignment for school for a cd rom interface, and the second one was a quick doodle (about 50 mins i think)






comments and crits are always welcome, but especially painter tips

thanxs

[Mime]

Thanxs nightmre, yes you are right about the hand and the mouth beeing too low, i have corrected that in the head i doodle on my sketchpad =)

for the second one it is kinda crappy, i sitted in front of painter for 50 mins and i got this i was mostly trying to get used to the soft.


if anyone have advices with "making" custom brushes for painter that are lag-free and interesting to use, share your knowledge please (lot of cool brushes are almost unusable for me cause they are slow)

[synj]

hey mime,

those dents in the concrete/metalish thing with the chalk next to it kick major ass! hehe cool looking.

the lady I don't particularly care for. the drawing of her looks pretty flat to me and it doesn't seem like it belongs there. :/ shrug.


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[Mime]

thanxs synj
yes i know, it was my first painter pic and in fact i tried more to use the soft than to do something really coherent, i only knew i wanted a business woman (it was for a school work for a cd rom interface for a job company) and 5 buttons

and i started doodling and trying all the tools

what i especially dislike in the pic is the title it doesnt belong at all i think, and first i forgot to put it, so i didnt had much space left
but whatever the teacher was fairly happy since most of the other student did "boring photorapes" , he had something different to look at

[Waldo]

I'm struggling with Painter myself so I can't offer much help there, but these far outweigh what I've been able to come up with so far...

For the first, I find my eye bouncing all over the place trying to take everything in . Too busy. Those round objects on the right are really distracting and not necessary (IMO). Your background is good, but as you noted the type doesn't work. The sharpness of that really detracts from the softness of the woman. Soft is good, but I would try to tighten up some of your edges. As others have noticed, she is a quite flat. I would suggest adding more definition and shadows around her features and with your apparent light source coming from the upper left, add some highlights in her hair and on her shoulder. That will help bring her out more. Also, anatomically, her hand is much too small... 2 cents for #1.

As for #2.

I love everything about it! I personally wouldn't change a thing.

Keep up the good work and good luck with Painter. I may be asking you for tips here soon...

Cheers!

[This message has been edited by Waldo (edited January 29, 2001).]