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So.... more practice with less references than last time.... a few references for the basic face structure and where everything goes in relation to everything else but the crap-tacular shading is all from my head and what I think I should look like. I even skimmed through a face shading tutorial for a minute or two!
This dude is a king-ish ruler and the Keeper of Dragons from a story I made and it looks pretty darn close to what he actually looks like, so...
good 'nuff.
He normally wears a cape and, you know, clothing, but I don't wanna mess with coloring fabrics, lol
Tattoo on forehead plus forehead crown? I don't know what the piece is called XD But LONG HAIR!!! and white eyes. He's half dead. Srsly.
So, what looks awful?
This dude is a king-ish ruler and the Keeper of Dragons from a story I made and it looks pretty darn close to what he actually looks like, so...
good 'nuff.He normally wears a cape and, you know, clothing, but I don't wanna mess with coloring fabrics, lol
Tattoo on forehead plus forehead crown? I don't know what the piece is called XD But LONG HAIR!!! and white eyes. He's half dead. Srsly.
So, what looks awful?
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well, your digital painting (of humans) is coming along better than mine!
what i would say... the coloration looks, well, a little dead. thought you said he is dead... that could be it : X
but what one finds in skin tone is a variation of subtle colours. (i'm sure you've seen the tutorials that say put red in the cheek area.)
one experiment i found that gave a nice effect was to take an empty layer and airbrush some color over it. like the middle of my reference pic was shadowy, but had a sort of red cast to it. and the lit area was more yellow/orange. and then i put some blue-grey on the unlit (or less-lit) side... and then screwed around with the layer blending methods to get subtle color variations. ya know what i mean?
like imagine he had some kinda blue light hitting him from the left... then try a complimentary color for the shadows.
of course the image i was working on was really dark anyway, so i have no idea how good/bad it would look in full light. : X
what i would say... the coloration looks, well, a little dead. thought you said he is dead... that could be it : X
but what one finds in skin tone is a variation of subtle colours. (i'm sure you've seen the tutorials that say put red in the cheek area.)
one experiment i found that gave a nice effect was to take an empty layer and airbrush some color over it. like the middle of my reference pic was shadowy, but had a sort of red cast to it. and the lit area was more yellow/orange. and then i put some blue-grey on the unlit (or less-lit) side... and then screwed around with the layer blending methods to get subtle color variations. ya know what i mean?
like imagine he had some kinda blue light hitting him from the left... then try a complimentary color for the shadows.
of course the image i was working on was really dark anyway, so i have no idea how good/bad it would look in full light. : X