[aprilmaeshowers]

hi, my usual medium is Colored pencils as you can see on my website, but after seeing this forum i tried digital painting in PHOTOSHOP 7.. i think i have a new favorite medium!!.. tell me what you think ? i need tips

http://www.freewebs.com/aprilmae/index.htm


don't know how to attach a file so here is my website,, the digital painting is on the Digital Artwork page ENJOY![/img]

[aprilmaeshowers]

I also did a self portrait in photoshop..



it;s on my web page also... please give advice these are my first digital paintings in photoshiop?

[Matthew]

Hello and welcome to Sijun.
If you have questions and such you can visit the faq section in the top right where the question mark is.
This is what it says there about pictures:

Can I post Images?
Images can indeed be shown in your posts. However, there is no facility at present for uploading images directly to this board. Therefore you must link to an image stored on a publicly accessible web server, e.g. http://www.some-unknown-place.net/my-picture.gif. You cannot link to pictures stored on your own PC (unless it is a publicly accessible server) nor to images stored behind authentication mechanisms such as Hotmail or Yahoo mailboxes, password-protected sites, etc. To display the image use either the BBCode [img] tag or appropriate HTML (if allowed).

Some neat stuff on your site, I like that pink drawing. :)
ok hope to see some more stuff from you in the future
have a nice day
Matthew

[fukifino]

The Baby Head is awesome.

The self portrait has a few things that I think could use improvement. The first thing that struck me were the shadows...they look very gray/black, as if they were created using the burn tool. It gives the skin a very odd look. The second are the straps on the shoulders...they look very flat where they come into contact with the skin as if they have no actual thickness to them. I think you need a bit of shading along the edge to give them some volume.

Beyond that they're both quite excellent. Your traditional media stuff is really outstanding, although I do notice a few proportional and anatomical errors here and there. But those aside you capture some really great expressions in those. I salute anyone who can use colored pencil like that. I'd really love to see some higher resolution scans of them though.

[A-13]

Well, I've never been much of a critic, so I'll take the comments side of things... Wow! Amazing colored pencil works! I had to look at some of them a bit longer, very realistic! It's always great to see new people on Sijun, I really hope to see more of your work.
Your name is awesome, too!
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