Precious Smile

Painting \ Still life | 08/08/06 @972 | jaguilar01 | critiques (2) | views (692)

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My first successful digital painting wuhu ehehhee. Not to much success though but I think its not bad for a first try =D.

Please comments and critiques, I wanna know how can I improve more and where did I went wrong.

Thanks in advance =)

The process can be seen here http://www.x-jhed.net/_uploads/exhibitions.img/ps_process.jpg

Reference: http://x-jhed.net/_uploads/exhibitions.img/reference.jpg

ukit(Joseph Aguilar)
http://www.x-jhed.net

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chickenfingers

08/08/06 @749

Definitely not bad for a first try! I wish I could say the same about my first forays into digital.

You're off to a good start 'ere, but I've got a few suggestions:

Use sharpness/hard brushes and softness/soft brushes conscientiously. For instance, firming up the chin/neck area with some more defined shadows would separate her face from her neck better.
Make conscious color decisions and incorporate varying hues and levels of saturation. It looks like you may have used the burn tool to shade her face, especially around the edges. While the burn tool isn't a bad thing, it doesn't do the best job of achieving accurate or pleasing tones. I would advise choosing your own colors for shading/highlighting.
Watch out for harsh blocks of blackness (or any other color). It's tempting to make shadowed areas all black, but try to find the subtle variations in those dark areas which make them read as forms and not flat shapes. Example: her shirt's uniform blackness + relatively hard edges gives it a cut-out feel. Also, totally achromatic colors (ehem) are rarely found in the Real World (tm); lighting almost always has a certain color cast to it which, coupled with the effects of a subject's surroundings, makes finding pure whites, blacks, or greys quite unlikely.
For some excellent info and tutorials (better than all my jibberjabber ) visit Linda Bergkvist's site (www.furiae.com; the tuts are under "Gallery".

Cheers! I hope that was some help and not merely confusing (not the best at explaining stuff).

TheKing78

08/10/06 @000

I like her expression and I think she is similar to the reference but it needs more works.
Try to follow the advices of chickenfingers and you'll be better in the future.

Anyway it's a very good start, I think you are talented.

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