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who is an amazing and beautiful person worthy of all your love!
This started out as a photo-manipulation but so much has been done to it that I'd class it more as a photo-painting now. It's taken me quite a long time to do this, and it's far from perfect but I wanted to try and improve my ability to paint people, while keeping some things expressive. A part of my problem is I find it hard to let go of things and bring some chaos into a picture, but here and there are lines slowly wooshing away.
She started out oddly enough as a bit of a shaman, with great big feathers everywhere. However as time went on the feathers started to fall away and the cogs slowly replaced them. In the end, she became a lovely steampunk lady, underneath a sky of rust.
who is an amazing and beautiful person worthy of all your love!This started out as a photo-manipulation but so much has been done to it that I'd class it more as a photo-painting now. It's taken me quite a long time to do this, and it's far from perfect but I wanted to try and improve my ability to paint people, while keeping some things expressive. A part of my problem is I find it hard to let go of things and bring some chaos into a picture, but here and there are lines slowly wooshing away.
She started out oddly enough as a bit of a shaman, with great big feathers everywhere. However as time went on the feathers started to fall away and the cogs slowly replaced them. In the end, she became a lovely steampunk lady, underneath a sky of rust.
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Not bad at all! The biggest crit I have is what I say to most people: Go paint more people (I say it to me too). The more you do, the easier this is going to get.
Here's some simple bits of advice: Warm skin tone? Cooler shadows. Don't be afraid to make it subtle, either. There are a lot of nuances to a skin tone, you'll have to experiment to find happy mediums. I think you pushed the skin contrasts a lil far, but what can I say - I often do that too
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I like the hat, but there's still some difference between what was placed there from brushes or preexisting shapes and brush work. Do studies on bridging that gap. Is one too clean? Make it less clean. Is one too loose? Tighten it up. It's a dance of brush work with the end goal being near seamless integration.
Great sky! I love it. A lil more star variation may be good though. Group some, go tiiiiny, etc.
That said, the biggest thing you can do is just more. Repetition to drill in the shapes. Do fast studies, slow studies, on paper, on the computer, whatever you can.
Here's some simple bits of advice: Warm skin tone? Cooler shadows. Don't be afraid to make it subtle, either. There are a lot of nuances to a skin tone, you'll have to experiment to find happy mediums. I think you pushed the skin contrasts a lil far, but what can I say - I often do that too
.I like the hat, but there's still some difference between what was placed there from brushes or preexisting shapes and brush work. Do studies on bridging that gap. Is one too clean? Make it less clean. Is one too loose? Tighten it up. It's a dance of brush work with the end goal being near seamless integration.
Great sky! I love it. A lil more star variation may be good though. Group some, go tiiiiny, etc.
That said, the biggest thing you can do is just more. Repetition to drill in the shapes. Do fast studies, slow studies, on paper, on the computer, whatever you can.