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Affected · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2000 3:14 pm

Yep. Count the dots, if you want. Tell me if you do.
I need to sleep now, I've got an exam at 9 am, and it's 1.15 am.

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sfr · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2000 3:25 pm

Very nice! The ridges around the eye look lovely indeed, especially at the top right. But if there's one thing here that distracts me, it's the reflection on the eye - maybe it shouldn't be so sharp-edged and uniformly white.

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akh · member Member # Joined: 22 Jan 2000 Posts: 87

very cool indeed!
I like the style... i also agree with sfr; maybe try and create a little more depth to the eye... ehh, i dont think i have time to count the dots so...

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Darkmoon · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2000 3:44 pm

2427 give or take 10?

its nice, i agree make the shine more uhm shiny

or add a lower contrast shine

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Muzman · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2000 4:27 pm

That straight out kicks ass.
don't do a thing to it, it's perfect.
truly momentous

Mongoose · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2000 5:51 pm

I love it! That is spectacular, Affected. Truly amazing.

Keep it up!

Affected · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2000 7:25 pm

Hm, yeah, I thought about the eye, it's just that one thing I remembered about full-black eyes I'd seen before was that the reflection was indeed sharp and bright white. Darkmoon's idea about a secondary reflection is a good one, though, I guess I'll try that one. That might require a new layer, though (Or at least it would be easier to do on a new layer), and I haven't yet used any for this image, and I'm not sure I want to... :P

In other news, it is now 5:30 am. I just haven't been able to sleep, and I have no idea why. I might as well check the forums and start studying french, since I didn't do that yesterday. Augh.
And uh-oh, it looks like I forgot to do some tidying up on the ridges Saffron mentioned...

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Kindred · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2000 7:46 pm

Damn freaking good. Innovative and impressive. I love it.

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Affected · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2000 10:20 pm

OK, I fixed the eye up a little.

Funfetus · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2000 11:22 pm

How the HELL did you do all those dots?

I love it.

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Affected · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2000 1:09 am

Funfetus: What's the most anal, time-consuming way you can think of?
Yep, the airbrush. :P

I did try to make a tileable texture first, but it looked terrible when overlayed on top of this, and I needed the rows of dots to flow along th surface, so I airbrushed each and every one of them. First I used the airbrush set to screen to make the dots, and then shaded them a little with the airbrush set to multiply. And I did that a lot.
Someone somewhere mentioned this might be a good thing to do a site design based on, but really, I'm not sure I want to draw a single dot just now...

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Oscar Alexander · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2000 5:15 am

I think it would look good on a promotional flyer for Mars Attacks! II:

Hehehe... sorry. I couldn't resist

Really nice pic!

sfr · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2000 5:36 am

Hmm, I'm not sure if the secondary reflection improves things. Maybe it shouldn't be grey but rather deep blue/green on the edges - nothing is truly black in nature so a pure grey highlight looks unnatural. Same with the primary reflection.
But don't get me wrong, this is just a minor peeve, overall it's a strong design with some juicy texturing - I like a lot

Saffron / Sunflower

Affected · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2000 6:10 am

Hm I tried blue and dark brown (Because the iris underneath is a dark brown), I didn't notice any major difference. Something very subtle, but maybe I'm just too tired to notice it. I tried to actually sleep, but my cat decided not to let me, jumped on my stomach and started scrathing. Grr.

Affected · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2000 6:16 am

Now, I'm going to make an estimate of how many dots there are.

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