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MunkY c mUnkY Du · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2001 6:59 am

hi ive been workin on and of on this pic for too long... i learned all i could... i know its not perfect ie the head phones and his head is a bout 5 degrees more to the right than it was on the cover i copied it from.. but i like it... it resembles him.. ( its craig david... a garage/RnB singer from uk...)
hope u like.... crit away...

Eepers · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2001 10:23 am

That looks great guy! Really nice stuff. If you wanna bring out the headphones a bit more and make it a little more mechanical you might consider adding some more intense small highlights among the lights you already have there. Just a thin streak or two of light on the headphone body, but more importantly might be to add a few little ones to the headphone padding area. I'm just throwing stuff out though, feel free to ignore me, it really looks great. Something of an illustration feel to it.

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MunkY c mUnkY Du · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2001 11:05 am

cheers... yeah although i thought i had finished it i may add some highlights on the soft parts.. they do look a tad flat... thanks for the tip

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proximo · member Member # Joined: 27 Jan 2000 Posts: 467

Hey man .. i like this pic really cool .. a few things that kind of jumped out at me .. he looks kind of plastic right now .. im not sure how the pic really looks so im going blind right now .. I hope you dont mind i did a quick over paint to show you what im talking about

All i did really is just toned down the shine a little and took out the hard lines.. Im sure you already know this but ill say it anyhow .. in you pic you use hard lines to define the lips and the nose, but people, and faces rarely have hard lines, the lines should be defind by shadows and things like that .. not by an outline, so what i did is smoothed the lines around the nose and lips just to see how it would look and stuff .. at anyrate i dont know if in the pic this is what he looks like or not so i might be way off

.. again hope you dont mind the quick over paint and i hope this helps you out

Prox..

Eepers · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2001 2:49 pm

The soft stuff is allright, personally, and this is just my opinion (no offense Prox) you've kinda got something going on the first one that looks like a style of it's own, where as when you soften it up it starts to lose a little bit of it's overall "look". As long as you work withing a style you can kind of get away with bending the rules more, ya know?

neebhore · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2001 3:27 pm

I prefer Mr munki du's one to proximo's.
It is obvious it's supposed to be craig david. [<---me uk, me know who you mean!] I would suggest maybe softening your highlights a bit more. His right side of his face looks a little bit bumpy, but his pose definatly looks like he his 'boppin' to his music. I am impressed! If you do do more to it, post it, i would like to see!

ArtKeo · member Member # Joined: 29 Feb 2000 Posts: 115

Hey,hey, the likeness is good. I don't think I can add(say) anything to improve it.

Strawberrysauce · member Member # Joined: 04 Feb 2001 Posts: 356

yo.. belfast boy/girl, pretty cool work!!!

r u doing any kind of course in Belfast?? like vis-com at UU??, i really like this, but ..... Craig David? wot r u thinking? (hes crap!, no matter wot the press might say!)

anyway... cool portrait .. i think that u should keep the original background rather than the one that Proximo suggested, although his other suggestions seem to be pretty good.

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MunkY c mUnkY Du · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2001 12:00 am

thanks for taking your time to help....

i see what u mean especially around the nose

but i spent so long doing it i decided it was time to stop... i was pleased with the result .. as Eepers said it has a illustration look about it (although i didnt set out to make it that way)... most of my good art usually turns out to be completely different to what i first set out to draw... but i is gonna fix that soon with the help of this forum and peeps like u

cheers

MunkY c mUnkY Du · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2001 3:09 am

hey shamhead.... im not at the university of ulster... i did foundation art and design in BIFHE and then left after that was complete.... some o me friends are doing visual communication or something(video and photography stuff).. hehe i have to admit that i do have a craig david album :P ... but im a hard BA$T"^D hehe...

thanks for the other replies.... lets see ... hmm boyzone next maybe :P