Tara WIP - a little stuck!

[adam-crockett]

I wanted to look, but your link is broken.. at least for me.

[Guinevere]

That's weird - it just worked when I clicked on it.

Try this one - it goes to my photo album but is a little smaller -

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?&p=999&uid=4518180&gid=16208125&&imgid=250087631&offset=0

[Guinevere]

Or if someone wants to tell me how to put the pictures inside the post, I can do that too! :) My brain's working a bit slow today....

[adam-crockett]

Right click on the properties of the image and copy the path, in this case "http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1114/4518180/16208125/248014616.jpg (http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1114/4518180/16208125/248014616.jpg)"

then click the "insert image" button (yellow, with a triangle shape like a mountain) and paste that path into the dialogue box that pops up. Should work fine.

http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1114/4518180/16208125/248014616.jpg

Do you have any reference images that you're working from? That might help to critique. Otherwise I can comment on what you have here. Its a really nice start though!

[Guinevere]

Alright, here's the most recent version -


http://www1.christianforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=101013&d=1178164962

Edited: ok, it showed up before I hit "submit."

Maybe it's too big?

Anyway, yes, I do have reference pics - give me a second to post them.

[Guinevere]

Let's try this again....



http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1114/4518180/16208125/250087631.jpg

Edited: YAY!

[Guinevere]

Reference 1 -

Edited: apparently it is not letting me link to this one site with the whole image, even when I resize it, so i'll have to put them into my photo album and then link them from there. Just a minute.

http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1114/4518180/16208125/250138260.jpg

[Guinevere]

Reference 2 -

http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL1114/4518180/16208125/250138262.jpg

I'm not trying to get her to look exactly the same because I don't want to use either of these angles and I've only seen her once in my life. :-p Anyway, I wanted to use some of the features that I liked to kind of spring off from and I purposefully changed some others - such as her lips, eyelashes, how dark her eyebrows are, and such.

[Rebeccak]

Guinevere,

A couple of tutorials / threads you might find useful are:

TUTORIAL - Watts Atelier Figure Tutorial - by Gist (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=199&t=490884)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=199&t=490884

Anatomy Studies and Demos by Gist (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=200&t=491255)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=200&t=491255

These demos are by Erik Gist, who is a really great artist / illustrator who teaches the basics / fundamentals of figurative art. Definitely have a look, and feel free to check out the Anatomy Forum too. :)

Cheers,

-Rebeccak

[adam-crockett]

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/adamcrockett/TaraCrit.jpg

check out the part. I think its further over to the left, not right in the middle.
this area of the hair is quite dark, could really be darker in yours. Overall your hair could use more contrast, especially more dark areas.
Her lips are peeled back over her teeth in the photos, raising it up and minimising the distance between the lip and the nose. In your painting the mouth is closed, so I dont think there would be so little space between the lip and the nose. Smiling still pulls the lips tight around the teeth, and raises the lip up, but less so when its a closed mouth smile.
speaking of the mouth, the lower lip in your painting seems a little severe. The curve that makes up the bottom of the lip is softer in the photos. That curve is the lip being pulled back tight around the curvature of the bottom teeth. She doesn't seem to open her bottom lip at all in her "teeth showing" smile, so I think you could just mimic what you see in the photo.
The ear has a nice meaty ridge along the back side that is pretty visible in the photo. Yours has been cut off by that little ridge in front, as well as being a little too skinny up top.
Overall, a very nice painting. Something needs to be done about the shoulder on the right, its just cut off. I dont know what you want to do for the background, but I agree it needs something. The hair seems to just be a base coat right now, it needs more contrast, darker shadows and brighter highlights, and more detail if you want to take it that far. Linda Bergkvist has a nice hair painting tutorial (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=259468) if you need it.

Thats all I have time for now. I should probably work now ;) Maybe someone else can chime in, or I can comment more after you work on it a bit longer.

Good work! Cant wait to see more.

Adam

[Guinevere]

Thanks so much! I will work on all of this, check out those tutorials, etc. I am at work right now, but I am going to be working on this tonight, tomorrow night, and probably all day on Saturday since it has to be done this weekend. I will post the process as I go (which will be a lot easier from my own computer!).

Thanks again! I really appreciate your time.

[Guinevere]

Ok, here is the latest.

I worked on her mouth, the distance between her nose and her lip, and tried to soften the bottom lip.

Added a background and decided to put her in water. I also straightened and lengthened her neck a bit before it meets her shoulders.

Welcoming all crits, especially for her shoulders, etc as I'm working on smoothing it all out and adding all the shadows and highlights.

Hair will be last as I am DREADING it. :-p

[Vyliss]

her cheeks could come out a bit more and soften the lines around her lips and those smile lines or whatever they're called. The added background and shoulder is nice tho.

[Guinevere]

Thanks! When you say her cheeks should come out more, do you mean it's looking like her face is too flat? I tried to fix those lines. Let me know if it looks better.


I smoothed out the skin on her shoulders, added some blue tones, and I'm about to embark on the rest of the water!

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