Girly girl faces

[firebugs]

They are really beautiful , i love the color pallete in the second one

[Ivy00]

I have a real struggle doing portraits or people, I have no crits , just posting to say they look great :)

[zyanthia]

Beautiful work and I'm glad to see you on CGtalk!

As far as whitening the skin goes on the second image, with just a little Photoshop tweaking I think you can achieve your desired results. What I usually do if I want to add a little more impact to an image is:
+I copy the flattened final artwork onto a new layer
+Give it a slight gaussian blur
+Desaturate either the whole thing, or only certain colors depending on my desired result
+Use Hard Light to overlay it onto the original
+Change the opacity of the new layer depending on how extreme I want the effect

Example here (http://siys.com/z/images/hardlightex.jpg). I'm not sure if that's exactly what you want, but I think it's worth playing around with if you're unhappy with the skin color.

Keep up the great work, and I look forward to seeing more posts by you! :D

[Ylla]

firebugs, ivy > thank you ^^

zyanthia > that's a really neat effect. i always thought that people just painted it that way from the get-go. it's not quite what i mean, though.

I read in a Julie Bell book that it's really easy to pick skincolors. Basically, no matter what color you paint the skin, our eye/brain will still think "oh, that's regular human skin color, it's just under a really strong colored light". So, in the same sense, it should be much harder to make a picture where the character's skin is ACTUALLY white, as opposed caucasian and just desaturated by a dark environment. So, I basically have to try more and learn more and use more refs.

But I will definitely play with your suggestion, that sounds really neat ^^ Thank you! ^^

[zyanthia]

Oh! I see what you're saying. When I look at the image the skin does read as skin color and not as white. However, I think that's in part due to the hilights in the hair and eyes which both appear "white" in comparison to the skin & bg. Maybe if you brought more of the strong hilight color to the skin itself it would appear to be more white?

[Visionspring]

Hi there! I've admired your art for ages, since the early days of the Gargoyles fandom ^^

I like these portraits, especially the expressions, and I think that you have a good grasp of facial anatomy. The only small thing I can point it is that the skin tones look a little monochromatic, so maybe try to add different colours to various zones of the face - Like warm oranges for the forehead, a little red/pink on the cheeks and nose, and perhaps a few cooler colours on the lower areas of the face (this might all vary depending on lighting conditions too). Only a little hint of these colours mind you, otherwise your character could end up looking drunk, lol! I think this will help the skin "pop" a bit more.

Can't wait to see more work! :thumbsup:

[Ylla]

New piece. Not a portrait, I'll do more of those soon, but a piece celebrating kimonos and a small but beautiful island off Hiroshima.

http://ylla.org/portfolio/itsukushima.jpg

Semi-mat. The Torii is heavily edited. The water was left alone. The rest is painted in Photoshop.

[Imirie]

That second portrait is great.. Her hair is gorgeous. ^^!

[Ylla]

#3.

http://ylla.org/portfolio/orion.jpg


I've improved on some things on the girl, I think, since the last portrait. The boy is my first ever even-remotely-realistic-boy-face (and plus I was an idiot and didn't use refs for it), so please don't flood it with crits, because I know there's a million things wrong with it ^^ The girl's fair game, though. I'd love some crits!

New one coming tonight or tomorrow :)

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