[Belisarius]

Heeey ,

ok ,ok , it is not really the stuff you are
used to , but I promise I ll get better .

Any crits ?! Would be welcome .

[Ko]

Is that a man or a woman?

To avoid the supersmooth look try to paint with the paintbrush a varying opacity, it can be done even with a mouse...

And I would advice you to paint your highlights and shadows, do NOT use the dodge/burn tools.

There's recently been a thread on starting a painting with a silhouette and then blockin'
colours in with a paintbrush....
I wrote some stuff about that, and I don't have time to type it all in again

Try to search the forum for the word "silhouette".... happy hunting!

Ko

[SushiMaster]

Here's a trick I found to fix up the dodge/burn (which is still bloody useful to actually FIND the damn colours):

pick a hard edged brush, starting medium sized (with respect to the area you're fixing up) and set the maximum opacity to something like 10% or less. Then you can use ALT-click to pick the colour under your cursor as your main colour. So go around the place alt-clicking and then repainting over the area which is meant to be that colour.

Keep on doing it, and you'll get a more painted look. You should also dampen those extra-bright highlights a bit. She looks like her skin is a yellow mirror reflecting a huge light source or something :-P

Also, when doing the highlights/shadows with the dodge/burn, always start with large brushes (compared with the area you're working on. Even if you darken a bit an area which will be light later, it doesn't matter - you can lighten it up again!

Also play with the different settings for the dodge and burn, change the midtones thing to highlights or shadows and see the effect. One of them will actually lighten up the colour the way you were trying to do it (I think) instead of whitening it. It's not necessarily the same for the opposite mode (ie it could be shadows for dodge and midtones for burn...).

There's also something wrong with the chin shading, I think, but let's wait till Fred gets here to tell you exactly what and how to fix it :-P

Daniel

[Belisarius]

Yeah , all right , I got it .

Thanks for your feedback up to now . It didn't
quite turn out the way I liked it to , but
its still worth because of the training .

Thx again .