"PAINTOVER PLEASE" - painted crits on demand - with Steven Stahlberg

#581

Hi Steven,
I was wondering if you could help me out on this painting I was working on this week. It is my first attempt at digital painting in photoshop and I would apprecciate any advice you could give me. I was having trouble with the color pallete and with the colors being too saturated. I painted the whole thing in black and white first and added layers of color over it. Also I was having trouble keeping this character from looking like a guy. If you can offer any suggestions to how I can make her look more female that would be cool too. Thanks, this thread is awesome.

http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/207245/207245_1160344793_submedium.jpg

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#582

The three latest images:
The first one, I didn’t really have a lot to comment on, so I just fiddled some with minor details, and the pose. :slight_smile:

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#583

Wow,
You helped me see that my highlights were all over the place. I like what you’ve done with it. Especially the face and softer tones. It makes her look more female now. Thanks.

#584

thanks a lot Stahlberg, you can see the new update in my thread in the wip section. here is the link if you are interested in :slight_smile:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=3922129#post3922129

#585

collings, good progress! I love the hairy shoulders! :smiley:
Just one thing, I think the S-shape in the club and the way it lies against the ground makes it look like it’s soft and floppy… I think you should either make it straighter, or bend the other way, or make the bend more ‘sharp’ if you know what I mean.

#586

yeah i know what you mean, i didn’t realize that relation with the ground, you’re right about the soft and floppy look. Some other guys told me the same thing. I’ll fix that for sure. Thanks.

#587

Hey Steven:

first of all, I have to say that everything that you’re giving back to the community is amazing! I thank you for that!
I would love for you to take a look at this, and let me know if there’s any glaring proportion issues that are popping out at you. The head feels a little too big, and I’ve tried making it smaller in different ways, and it always kept looking worse. I also feel that my lower arms are looking quite… weird, not too sure what’s going on there.

Thanks for everything if you do give me a few tips.

#588

Yes, you’re right, the head is about 10% too big, and the arms are too short - on most people the distance between fingertips (when arms are stretched out like this) equals that of their height, pretty much to the centimeter. I also think his jaw may be a little too massive, but that may be more a matter of taste.
Topology seems slightly un-even, sparse in one direction in some areas, the center of the chest could use another vertical edgeloop, and the thighs could use a couple more horisontal edgeloops… more like the biceps and deltoids, which seem more evenly divided.
Apart from these issues, the model seems quite well done, so I don’t know if it would help much if I painted over it? :slight_smile:

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#589

Hi Steven!
I enjoyed watching the overpaints, comparing original and overpainted pictures. Thanks for this great thread :smiley:
Here I have a new painting, called “Venus Verticordia”, where the anatomy bothers me. I think it’s mainly the shoulder/neck/arm area, but I’m not sure how.
Link: http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/view.pl?id=101556 (nudity)

#590

edit removed the picture because I will try to make some changes by myself :slight_smile:

#591

Awesome thread! Browsing the changes is a great educational experience.

Gord

#592

Hey thanks so much, this is a huge help, I didn’t realise how awkward that pose actually was and everything else is a huge improvement I shall get to work fixing my picture.

#593

Wow. This thread just keeps on going and going :slight_smile:

I have this image which I “finished” about 2 years ago but i still think of it as my greatest piece yet - and the one I have spend the most time on.
Anyways, I thought I could post it here to see how to maybe take it one step further, as I find it very hard to point my finger at what exactly can be improved - if I were to edit it a bit one day.

It is a selfportrait, though I DO have ears in the real world :smiley:
Some parts are based on actual paintovers of photos and others are made from scratch with a mirror.

#594

Thanks for the help with my dragon. Your colors really unified the piece and the anatomy corrections were great.Great stuff!!

#595

I have no idea on how to continue with this
, but i think i need to work with the contrast and make
the colors stand out a bit more…

I wanted to avoid drawing her hands thats why she stand in
such a weird pose…

on a sidenote; your work is amazing, and you really bring magic
to the drawings in this thread.

#596

Hey Stahlberg, 'hope i’m not too late. I’m just getting started in cg (and in general art). I couldn’t figure out what to add and what to do with this picture. I wanted to see what a Pro would do to “pretty it up”


I’m not really sure what to add. That’s not neccessarily earth in the bg and you are on some different planet. What would you do?

Thanks :slight_smile:

#597

This thread is GREAT! This is the 2nd digital illustration that I’ve ever done. It is a picture of my God son Seth at 6 months old. Yes his head is that big for now :-). I am using Photoshop CS2 and an Intuos 3 with the original pen nib that came with it. Right now I’m stuck on how to get the texture on his clothing. His outfit is made out of velvet. Also I was wondering how the illustration looks so far and if there is any advantage to using a different pen nib than the one that came with it the intuos? Thanks in advance!

#598

Here are four more.
This one, I thought the light was a bit indistinct so I made it more clear. I could perhaps have put it from the right, as you had it already on the face, but I just liked it better from this side on the body.

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I tried to give this guy more character, but even so I pulled back on the nose a bit, since I thought it was a bit too extreme and risked looking silly :slight_smile:

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This one, wasn’t sure what to do so I just did some minor tweaks.

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Mostly anatomy and pose tweaks on this one. (Pardon the emphasized nipples, that was accidentally left over from some initial smudging I did, not meant to be any kind of statement from me) :slight_smile:

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#599

KORG I’m not sure what to do with your image, since it’s stylized, relatively simple, and hard to see what is actually the subject matter. I’m guessing it’s a planet, probably Earth, seen from space, right? But it could also be something quite different. Maybe if you describe it some, explain what you’re going for, and let me know if you want me to take it in a more realistic direction, then I could give it a whirl. :slight_smile:

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#600

Thanks Stahlberg, i can see now what i need
to keep working on: more natural pose etc…
Iam not sure about the nipples thou :smiley:

Thanks