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Published: 2005-05-27 05:19:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 568; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 154
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Well.. here's where I am so far. It isn't that far of an advance since I've been pretty busy lately. I cleaned up some details on her face, and added in some shoulders. Hopefully her pose is becoming a little more clear.[Shall be scrapped when the finished pieces is up.]
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hai hai! I'll try to put in some ambient light.. I'm not really sure where I'm gonna put it though. This whole realism concept is killing my brain cells.
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Whee! Hm.. Ambient light is on the opposite side of the direct light 
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OMG! I love this tutorial. Bookmarked! thanks D-kun!
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You're welcome! I'm glad it helps! 
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Looks gorgeous, the eyes especially have a real vitality to them.
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Still lookin' good!
I was just thinking that it might look great if you left out any sort of clothing (Ie: top straps), and just left the nakie-looking shoulders out in the open. Hopefully something fills that little bit of void to the right there... even if it was a the tiniest tuft of brown hair just to balance things out.
I think you're doing a bang up job though!
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it's funny, because I *was* gonna put top straps in there.. but yeah, that's a good idea. I don't really know what else to do with her shoulders except refine the shadows :/
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Ah, well... tis just my opinion, and I know nothing! hehe
She does have some pretty strange outfits though, doesn't she?
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She does! For her A-Museum Tour, her first outfit was this weird black poofy dress with tubes of lights all over it, and it wrapped about her shoulders and over her head like a giant cage. She had to move like a marionette.. haha
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This is coming along quite well, I am impressed with how fast you're getting the hang of this new style. Since last time my praise was not enough for you, here's somethings that I noticed. First, I am not sure what look you're trying to grasp here but I think that sharper lines in certain areas would do you some good. Also, I would like to point out that in certain areas the color differences are a little to harsh so I see more of a bruised look than shadows. Still, don't get me wrong, I like this piece a lot and you're progressing really well... those are just some thoughts I had.
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Take a bow, take a bow.
Ah yes.. I've noticed the dirtyish look. I can't really fix it either, so I'm just gonna paint the nose again. I thought I would try for a blurred-photo look, but I'm not so sure now... Thanks for the tips and ideas! You know I love it when you leave long messages like these for me.
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that looks really awasome I can't wait to see the finshed!
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You might be waiting for a while dear. :/ I'm stuck on doing the nose. ><
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i love the eyes still
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I'm slowly learning all the mistakes that I shouldn't be making... it's like, "OMG, what the hell was I doing?! I should know better than this, I used to USE PS for everything! ..... -_-* "
Yeah.. I really need to clean up the areas better. I hate it when I don't intend for things to become deviations, but then they do, and I gotta go back and clean up the messiness... doh.
Thanks Joyce!
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lol, well... I assumed you'd clean it up in the end when you got everything done... that's why I didn't want to comment on the 'cleaning' part
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Aww.. no, it's alright.. It gives me ideas knowing what people are *expecting* of me. lol. I wonder if I should stick to the blurry photo look though.. :/
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Looking good hun, the hair is coming out nicely, as is everything else. Keep at it!
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you are doing really well with this image. I saw the only-her-face version when I was going through your gallery.
This is really turning out greeat! I cna't wait to se ethe finished image ^___^
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*reads your siggy and nibbles on you* ^_^.
Thanks!! 
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Aren't you supposed to be really picky or something? Feedback! You're always asking me for feedback!
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Yeah, but it's not even done.
It's not fair of me to say anything about something that's not even finished.
Finish it, and THEN ask me to tare it apart.
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Feedback as in SUGGESTIONS on how to make this better while I'm still working on it
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*sigh* Fine. But you're just gonna say it isn't done.
The edges need to be smoother/sharper. It's a really common issue for people who paint in Photoshop. It's easy to fix, just get the pen tool out, run a straight curve, make it into a selection and delete the excess or use it as a mask. Just need to be cleaned, not really a biggy.
Err, some of the shadows are too dark, and gives it more of a dirt look then a shadow...I do that too when I do PS painting. Also simple correction...don't use black when painting shadows, unless you're doing like a cartoon. Black isn't in nature. Sample the skin color and drop the brightness a bit and use THAT as your shadow. The spots I notice are around the left (her right) nostral and in the neck. You could just lighten the opacity of those shadows...up to you. It still looks the tiniest bit flat, overall....work with the shading/highlights and it'll be perfect.
That better?
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Much better. *decisive nod*
I know the edge along her jaw is pretty jumpy, I really should fix that first. I generally don't use pure black for shadows.. I think the only spot I used something close to black was her lashes, and that was for emphasis. Mascara and eyeliner will do that.. -_-. I also took these colors from a photo.. so that's probably one reason there. ><. Got any tips on blending colors? I haven't a clue how to do it well. I'm also having (obvious) issues with differently colored shadows. Grar. Thanks for the pointers. Keep up the pickiness, I like to hear people being picky, unless they're picking on really REALLY Stupid things.
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Blending?
Well, myself, I do things the hard way. I take a brush and make the painting opacity really low, like 10-20% and just paint on the shadows like that. Gradually it gets darker as you start working the fall-off. And since you have the opacity so low, you have a lot of "steps" so the blending looks smoother because it's harder to see the edges.
There's lots of ways...as is anything in photoshop. You could, say, use a seperate layer for shadows and mask THAT layer with some sort of gradient to blend a color/shadow...but that seems like it would be more work.
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Man... I knew I should've used more layers. ><. I used to use layers for everything, and now I'm used to Painter. ><
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SEE! See what happens when you use Painter?! It teaches you bad digiArt habbits!
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No it doesn't... it teaches you how to blend properly. I'm used to relying on pen sensitivity, but I guess in PS, you have to keep altering your opacity all the time.. forgot about that too, because I was too lazy.
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Photoshop lets you use pen sensitivity as well. You just have to use the brush editor--and you can control a lot of different things.
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The pen sensitivity in PS, I find, isn't as good as in Painter.
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Is she stoned? Or are those just paint color blotches so you can quick access them? lol
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Color blobbing. It's a must for digital stuff, or else I lose the colors I want. ><
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hehe thats what I thought 
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I really hadn't noticed that the blobs were in the right spot to be in the direct line of vision with her eyes.. hahaha.. it's so funny that you mentioned that.
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Well lol the way her eyes looked, it just hit me that she might be stoned or something lol anyways keep up the great work 
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the eyes are gorgeous...i think that the nose is a litle strange... the perspective...
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Gah! I know! The nose is driving me nuts!! I can't figure out how to fix it without it looking too.. off.
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i understand how frustant it can be!!! but continue....your going in a better way...
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