[melted petal]

Ok. Below is a dainty elven lass I have made for my webpage. The B&W I am fairly happy with but my god my color version sucks.

Looking for C&C of course but I really wanna see what you guys can do with this lady. I mean come on, she's got a nice ass, you know you wanna color her. The high res version is linked at the bottom.



Higher Res B&W

[ February 19, 2002: Message edited by: melted petal ]

[Gil Agud�n]

Nice pic, I like the character... good armor 2.
May I do some comments?
-She is supposed to be against a wall or something but the shadows are wrong because they give the impression that, specially her hand, is not touching the wall.
-If she is against a wall her hair wouldn�t be flying freely, it would be a little compressed with the wall plane, unless of course it�s a corner but then her right feet would be flying beyond the edge of the corner
-The same thing with her left feet, it seems to be floating instead of being standing in the floor.

I really like it, keep on going!

[melted petal]

Yeah I know, the whole hair thing is completely wrong but I just loved how the lines came out and couldnt help myself. The hands and the leg against the wall are also incorrect in that they both wouldnt be touching the same plane.

The colors are what happens when I only spend 30 minutes at 3 in the morning with minimal caffeine.

Thanks for the compliment though.

[Gil Agud�n]

i do like the colors, except the green background.., why don't u try drawing a background, it really helps to set the mood for the image.

[melted petal]

no background since its going on ny webpage wich will have that color bg.

[hunter_rose0]

Great job on the line art. Here is a link to a paint under that I worked up, hope it helps out with some of your colour questions.Drag this link to your address bar to see the image

[Motorfish]

The green background is definately not working for me.

[kaylon]

I have to agree about the green BG...it's a bit "bright", and to me she seams sorta moody....deep in tought almost.. and I think the colour scheme should reflect this...

Granted your web page might have that green as a background, but most people wont look around the site for long with that type of BG hehehe, maybe think about more pastel shades ?.

Here's a quick colour work up I've done...moody .



Kay.

[Gil Agud�n]

wow beatiful!!! how did u do that so fast???

[kaylon]

Thanks Gil..she took maybe 15 to 20 mins...lot's of cheats hehe..overlays and such, some photo manipulation in the background angain as an overlay. And appart from that just some real gentle airbrush (under the BW image, BW image set to Multiply).

Kay.

[melted petal]

Hey guys. Looking like some pretty sweet color ideas. I dig the background Kaylon!

Well I am redoing here. Whaddya guys think? She's kinda large so I will just link to it.

Partial repaint

[Gil Agud�n]

looking good!! nice render, can't wait 2 c it finished... how did u render the skin tones? burn and dodge??

[kaylon]

Ahhh...nice start .

I'd possably sugest a darker ( not much ) background underpaint...I find it helps define form better using a darker background color to paint on .

kay.