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ot · Posted: Sat May 20, 2000 10:47 am

Hiyas.

I'm new around here, just starting out with the whole digital art thing. Finished my first pic today, a little constructive criticism from any of you great artists would be very welcome.

This was all done in Painter 6 with the airbrush, except for a contrast adjustment which I made at the end with PS. The actual size can be seen here: http://www.geocities.com/beauty_and_decay/natbig.jpg
Its a little too big to post here though.

Any comments would be appreciated, since I still have a lot to learn

Thanks!

-ot

A.Buttle · member Member # Joined: 20 Mar 2000 Posts: 1724

Buy a book on anatomy. Please.

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Nex · Posted: Sat May 20, 2000 12:51 pm

I think an anatomy book would not help you much in this picture here.

Just try a little trick: Draw a basic shape of the head on another layer, with symmetry line etc and then you will see what you have to adjust (lips, cheeks and nose)

its not that bad thoug

Cya

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ot · Posted: Sat May 20, 2000 12:54 pm

Thanks genesequence and Lange, I'll work on the structure a little more. Seems if I work on a picture for very long I lose my sense of objectivity whether it be digital or traditional, and it becomes hard to spot even the most obvious errors at times. Thanks for the feedback.

A.Buttle, perhaps you skipped the part in my post where I asked for contructive criticism?

-ot

Oscar Alexander · Posted: Sat May 20, 2000 3:44 pm

Next time, post the URL of the reference pic too, so we can help you spot the errors:

http://www.np2k.com/images/photos/Misc/misc12.jpg

My tip, look at the image as a field of coloured patches, start coloring those, and refine them later.

genesequence · Posted: Sat May 20, 2000 11:33 pm

Scully? Is that you?

I (personally) like the skin tone. My wife is a fair redhead, and she has a very elusive, translucent skin tone, which I think you've captured nicely.

The structure of her sensory organs is good, but her face obviously needs some work. I would take in her right cheek (left side of painting) and work on the jawline on the opposite side. Finally, I think her bottom lip is a little uneven.

OTT (is that short for "other than that"?), I think the painting is good!

-genes

Lange_Pisang · Posted: Sat May 20, 2000 11:59 pm

Hmmm....

I think the shape of the head is not 100% right...

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