Been doing alot of practicing with photoshop lately. Here is the beginnings of a portrait that I'm working on. I'm trying to play with brushes and brush textures because it seems to me that most of the really good photoshop painters utilize the brushes more then any other feature. Anyway, critiques would be awesome.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Portrait Progress
Been doing alot of practicing with photoshop lately. Here is the beginnings of a portrait that I'm working on. I'm trying to play with brushes and brush textures because it seems to me that most of the really good photoshop painters utilize the brushes more then any other feature. Anyway, critiques would be awesome.
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otherwise your painting will end up very flat. There are shadows even in midday, albeit small ones. Remember the warm, cool relationships. Dont forget structure most of all. Remember the landmarks of the skull, and build on top of that, cartoony or non.
Also can anyone EVER read these fucking word verification things? so confusing.
i can read them braden.. but you're an ape so i'm not surprised with your difficulties trying to depict what the word verifications are.
anyways onto the portrait, i think it's a good start (i'm not exactly a genius when it comes to this stuff though) back to why i think it's a good start though; from what i can see you have the basic blocking in of color n' such going on where you're trying to find the basic planes on the face more then anything else. so ya, keep it comin.
Like Braden said, push your warm/cool relationships. And consider how areas with thinner skin will reveal more blood underneath, so areas like around the eyes and the tip of the nose. If the shirt is green then the neck will pick up some of it's reflected light. With a white background, maybe darken the edges of the face where it meets white to allow them to separate. Although this would change your original lighting scheme, a back/underlit face could possibly read better against white
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