Which portrait are you basing this off of and what is the background going to be since there's a 3 color restriction.

I loved it all the way but yeah, the sex scene was a little off but whatever. I came to see this movie not for a history lesson but for entertainment but just to make sure I know the truth, I researched the real battle. One question I'd like to ask Helm and anyone else who knows, how many Persians were there? So many different people come up with different numbers it's hard to know but since it's way in the past, we'll never know, eh? I would think it'd be hard to support anything over a milliion back in those days...

Turbo - Yes, I am very green  . Thanks for the tips, I knew I had to add some shading on the face as well as blend in between the colors. I'll play around with the angles 'til it gets smooth. I'll get started on that nose as well as the hair as soon as I'm done with the face.

mangust - Thanks for the tips! However, what you've described is the front view. The view in this portrait is almost 3/4. But I have removed the double chin  .

I'll be sure to do that! No comments? :-( *shrug

I'd like to begin with the I started after the eye. Originally, I was going to use an old drawing (posted in creativity thread) of mine but decided to go a different direction. I instead decided to use my own face as reference to make this:

Circus inspired. Actually Cirque du Soleil inspired. :-) This is a prelude to the fourth piece I'll be doing that will feature some extreme body bending.  I'm thinking that white is a little too white but it'll have to do for now. There's no lightsource as I haven't figured out where it's coming from. I'm pretty sure, though, that there'll be shadows on that face but, I was looking at some pictures in one of the Cirque programs I have and saw that there weren't too many dramatic shadows on the painted faces. I'd just like to know what you guys think of the eyes and AA. I wanted to make the transition between white and the colors to be very smooth but I'm not sure if what I did was correct.

When I read the new challenge at Pixeljoint, I thought and put the circus piece on hold see if I can actually get this done within a week. This is indeed a rough wip but here goes:

I drew  from a picture of a bust in my art history book and using the actual picture for lightsource. The finished product should look like a magazine cover for "The Roman Woman". The woman featured is wearing the "flavian" hairstyle popular among the elite women around the time of Emporor Hadrian. The hair, I know, will be very difficult but what I'm most concerned about is the shading. Is dithering the best solution for this especially if I'm to use only 3 colors? OKay so I know I'll have to dither but I just can't seem to find a pattern that would be good for a smooth surface...