Painter Practice : Female Face

[TheBaron]

The hair is excellent a very nice image, I'm trying to draw in Painter to looks like I've got some catching up to do :applause:

[Kirt]

Grrrr ... everytime someone mentions Painter I feel I'm missing out on something fantastic. I've gotta' save some pennies for that one.

[jeroentje]

He, that looks really good :thumbsup:

Critiques? Not much...

Some tips maybe:
For a good well placing of the nose, mouth and chin, I usually draw a profile of the face, in perspective, on top of the center line of the face, and widen things from there (if that makes sense, my english fails a bit on me to explain this).

For lots of drama it gives good result to put in well defined hard shadows. Try to find some of those 1930's and 1940's black and white glamour photo's, you'll be amazed what you can do with lighting.
But maybe that is just a matter of taste ;)

Keep posting.
Jeroentje
I hope you didn't draw in all those hairs one by one btw...

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Thanks for the tips jeroentje, and I understand what you mean about placing the nose, mouth and chin.

Grrrr ... everytime someone mentions Painter I feel I'm missing out on something fantastic.

You are :) . Painter's basically Photoshop, only the brushes act and work exactly like real life brushes, so you can literally do oil or acrylic style images on your computer without having to re-learn how to paint.

I hope you didn't draw in all those hairs one by one btw...

I did, it took about half and hour with the fine brush tool :D . Is there an easier way of doing it?

[jeroentje]

Yep...

Take one of the big hairy brushes (coarse hair or something) and set it to big. And I mean really big. Work from dark to light and what you showed us would have taken you 2 minutes...

There goes my little secret... :shrug:

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what you showed us would have taken you 2 minutes...

AARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH! :D

[jeroentje]

Exactly my own reaction when I found that out ;)

At the bottom of page 1
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17357&highlight=portrait

[Cgkoko]

Kirt: BUY PAINTER!:insane:
Would love to see you and sleeples use it extensively!:arteest:

(....):Nice going.looks good.Only thing is that the mouth doesnt follow the curve and perspective of the rest of the face.Also try to put some more colors in there.

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An update, with more colour and better proportions in the face.

http://www.classicgaming.com/hyperem/storage/v1.jpg

[Sleepless]

(...)->!!!good job. It's a cool proggy. I'm taking notes on the hair technique you used.
:beer:

[Kirt]

Cgkoko - Loan me a dollar? :D

Money is tight right now ... maybe next bonus check I get will pay for my Painter! It looks like a great program ... I love all those textures and smudgy paints that I've seen in other's Painter pics.

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I'm trying to draw in Painter to looks like I've got some catching up to do

and

I'm taking notes on the hair technique you used.

Funny you should say that, I just got through writing a tutorial on this image. I wrote it for 2D newbies like myself, but you might find it worth a look anyway. :)

http://members.lycos.co.uk/scotth2002/2dpaint.pdf

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