serious critique needed

DeadlyByDesign

Guys,

Made my first serious attempt at digital colouring last night. Would love to get a serious critque on this.

DeadlyByDesign

Oh and....whats a better way to do hair apart from blending it? If I want to show actual seperation of strands?

scottie pippen

looks decent for your first go! nice work.

for the hair, pic a colour tone that you like, I would zoom in select a narrow brush, and and set the pressure to about 70%percent,
paint with flowing strokes in the direction you want the hair to flow (painted over your base colour)
when you have the hair strands painted in, pick the dark/ light areas & use the dodge & burn tool as you need to.

also, ts worth looking at real hair photographs for a reference while painting

Scotty #

DeadlyByDesign wrote: »

Oh and....whats a better way to do hair apart from blending it? If I want to show actual seperation of strands?

Something to get you started... http://www.dazedgraphics.com/tutorials/skooldaze_hair_tutorial.htm

Loads more on Google.

DeadlyByDesign

your a star thanks a million for that tut

p

Try redo the lines digitally too, that would be a good excercise.

daedal

its good for a first attempt, i think you have potential.. but why didn't you get rid of the ugly artifacts!! marker splotches and scanner marks/paper gradient

Epoch

Your artwork would benefit greatly from having darker outlines. Right now the lines are getting lost in the colours and are somewhat obscured by them.

You clearly have an understanding as to how colour, light and shade works. What you lack is the understanding of applying that in digital art (which is fine, you did say it was your first proper attempt). What software did you use to colour it in? Did you use a mouse or a drawing tablet?

I personally would recommend using Photoshop or The Gimp (a free alternative) for beginner digital colouring. The programs themselves take a while to get used to but greatly pay off in the end. They certainly would be very good tools to use for a professional finish.

p

Great article on how to draw vectors. Would love to see you take this drawing to that level:
http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=367