[eyre]

I've started painting a frog (my first real digital painting)... and I'm trying to get that wet/slippery/froggy look to the skin...



any suggestions? =)

[Ghandaiah]

I wouldn't know exactly what to tell you, other than, well... Really shiny, with strong, somewhat concentrated highlights...

Otherwise, looks good so far... Frogs are one of my favorite animals. Aside from turtles. And monkeys.

[Jaklyl]

My you should add some reflections on the skin.
Add some Background so you have somthing to refelct

Hm, thats all. Hope it helps.

[QwertY]

I think its great this far .. maybe some reference pictures will help out .. I did a quick search on "frog"www.google.com (the image tab) and find a lot of tree frogs like this one with the skin you are looking for ...
hope this helps and I see the final soon ..

[ February 17, 2002: Message edited by: QwertY ]

[eyre]

thanks for all the suggestions =) I think its getting there!

[duality]

Feng Zhu's (Creature Illustrations)

This might help... In these, Feng uses a lot of middle ground including the background then punches white-hot highlights to achieve the wet look...

[spooge demon]

make your halftones (areas that are in light but not highlight) a little darker, and keep the highlights bright, flat and clean. A fully reflective object does not respond to diffuse light and shadow. This Frog, like 99 percent of all objects has some matte qualities, some reflective qualities.

[The Magic Pen]

Thats awsome eyre !! ..great exampl spooge it does have that wet look !!