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heroestcg · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2001 8:17 am

This is my first real post I'm new at this digital art (plus I'm an old fart of 36 holding down 2 jobs, four kids, you know real life stuff....). I'm just learning Photoshop, so far I've just got the basics. Feel free to crit and whatever. Thanks! And here it is:

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heroestcg · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2001 8:20 am

See I told you I was old. Can't even get the code right....

Scythe · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2001 8:50 am

Try to make more use of the dodge/burn, on the legs for example, you only did one line of highlight, but it doesnt look "real". It seems all so flat. So is the background, try to use more effects and objects to suggest a 3d environment.
Good luck,

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UBERL337 · Guest Member #

dodge and burn suxor, try shading and learn some color. tHE SHADOW IS GOOD AND SO AM I bwhahahahhahahahahahaha. tHIS PICture IS so FUCking owNING. i THINK i WANT TO GET THIS tattooed ON ME. iT'S gOOD to SEe tHAt some pEOPLE LIKE TO DRAW AND ARN'T ASFRAID TO POST SOME THING that isN'T uber L337

jeffery · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2001 3:09 pm

ok dhabih, this would be the time to ban the uber-eleet idiot.

heroestcg: the arms head and torso above the belt look nicest. below the belt things start to get a bit dogdy.

you could also spend a lot more time on the background, and try to make it something more interesting and something that the character interacts with. avoid using simple gradients (except sometimes for skies) and difference cloud filters. it's more useful and rewarding to learn how to draw your own clouds, and people can pick out rendered clouds in an instant anyways. there are tons of good links to tutorials on here. do a search for 'tutorial' and i'm sure you'll find something helpful.

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heroestcg · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2001 3:31 pm

Thanks so far for the replies (to well almost all of them). I'm trying to go through the tutorials. But it's hard to find the time (again the 2 job/4 kid thing...in fact I'm on my way to job 2 in about 10 min). Yes I agree I like to draw my own clouds. I did them myself for the 1st pic (not posted, but here it is: first try Got some crits from people at work, so I changed it up. Someone didn't like the fact that he didn't have "pants." Another didn't like my red sky. Oh well...