Portrait

[acb12]

well first of all inorder for us to know how you are doing so far and helping you move forward we need to see the image yure painting from cuz we cant tell you how to improve her face if we done know the face yure aiming twards ^_^

[Janymeria]

hi acb12!

It's only a random girl, i'm not using any real referece... maybe i shouldn't use "portrait" in the description then? sorry, my english is so poor, in that case i'll change it

bye and thank you for commenting ^^

[Janymeria]

I'm still working on this... now i'm with the hair, it doesn't look natural, it looks like straw pile, but here is another wip xD

all critiques are welcome and sorry for language mistakes

[acb12]

hmm well if you have some trouble with hair i think you should take a refrence pic just to make your life easier :D

i didnt drew alot of women so far so i dont know alot cocerning the overall look although it seems fine exept a slight right side of the lip thingy that it looks like her lip at the right side is rly pointing out of her face .
and concerning the hair it seems to me that her front grp of hairs start from the same place /starts from a very wiered place which is abit higher then her head and it makes it look like she has a weird hair :D

hope it helps and its looking great so far keep going ^_^

[Janymeria]

Thank you very much! ^^

When i have some time i'll try to solve those problems, i think you're absolutely right and, one more time, thanks for commenting

[the-small-print]

Nice detail on the face, here, but unfortunately it is completely at odds with the background, and until you put in the hair, it will not be a complete character. I often hit this snag when painting portraits - background is not what I'm interested in, so I rush ahead and leave it as an afterthought. Bad idea. Put in a background that sits well with the palette of the skin tones you have chosen, and whose lighting and reflection sits well with the face.

As for painting hair, I have never come acrss a better tutorial or technique than this one: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=259468

Just wish she did one for black hair too... :/

[Janymeria]

First of all thank you for commenting

I'm not really sure about what colour should i use for the background, i always have the same problem, but i will try to fix it

And about the tutorial, i haver already seen it, but i'm not good enough to al least reach that level of realism xD

Even though thank you very much for the advice and the tutorial ^^

[Janymeria]

I'm back! Now i've some time to paint!! yeah! good bye high school! ^^ xD

I haven't finished this painting yet, moreover in the morning I changed all the design so...

I know her hair looks strange, but...

Comments and critiques are welcome

Byeee!!!

[Scubasteve]

wow! Thats a really cool start. I like the blue eyed version better though I'm afraid. Amazing details on the face.

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