portrait **finished**

[sharprm]

Finished:



Reference:

[GOODNIGHTdestroyer]

I don't understand the darker shades next to the light ones, it looks really odd to me.

[sharprm]

Ok, I'll make her hair have less contrast and blend better. Is that what you meant?

[Joseph]

did her other strap fall off?
also, the shading is wierd, and kinda sketchy (sharp and it uses wierd shapes)

[GOODNIGHTdestroyer]

i meant the skint ones

[meatcar]

Make the face a bit more petite. The left eye (her left) should be closer to the middle, and the eyebrow shorter and thinner.. make the shadows on the eyes more subtle.

[Ryumaru]

your work always has wayy too much contrast going on, especially for a female. there are also edges that seem to always stay really hard in your work, needs some aa imo. other than that, the proportional work, and likeness etc is pretty well done.

[sharprm]

Yeah its a bit sketchy but thats because its work in progress. I'll gradually smooth all.

Her strap didn't fall of, I'll draw Austin Powers next to her with a pair of scissors.

Thanks meat car, i moved her eye in, wasn't sure what you meant about the shadows but i made the shadow on her brow less
prominant.

Actually a friend helped me out with the last edit, she just moved the eyes, nose, mouth etc. around and fixed it up.
I think its a vast improvement - more like boyonce and less like a man.

[Helm]

The gaze is more murderous still than it is seductive as in the reference. It has to do with the eyebrows being too strong, I think.

[Aleiav]

I agree with Helm. In the picture her eyebrows are lighter than her eyeliner.

[sharprm]

I've made her eyeborws purple now and thinner. Hopefully she looks less angry. The body is just roughed out for now.

[Helm]

further womanification:



I'm afraid it's mostly a matter of following your reference closer in shapes and lights. I suggest finding the same pic in a bigger resolution. Always use bigger reference than the pixel size you'll remake in.

[sharprm]

Great edit Helm. I will definately take it into account on future versions. I'm using a large reference:

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e199/sharprm/beyonce-knowles-free-wallpapers-2.jpg

Here's an animation showing what hows its going at the moment. Second frame is helm's edit superimposed.

[sharprm]

Edit: Finished image:



I'vve been working on this 3 days and I think its as good as it can get and I'm getting bored working on it. I think i learnt a bit
doing this piece and am happy with the result.

[Lelle]

It looks awesome! Only thing that seem to bug me is that the lower part of her swimsuit is looking kind of flat. Maybe you could add some stretching to the fabric and make it tear more into her flesh. Iīm not as good with edits as you but I tried anyways hehe...


Try not to look at it at all for a week or so then open it up and voila all the little problems is usually glowing. Not as fun to work on old pieces though.

Thatīs a LOT of pixels in 3 days btw! :]

Cheers,

Lelle

[snader]

this doesnt look finished to me, it could improve soo much by the use of dithering and AA, right now it looks (to me) like rather quickly blocked-in shades

the arm and belly (belly in a lesser degree) are looking random, as well as the arm looking skinny
colours of the hair and suit aren't really working for me either

face has got a pretty good likeness though

[Senad]

that isnt finished :S.. lots more u could do.. try dithering it

[ZoSo]

It does not really look finnished to me either, but if you say it is, then it is.. :O

Anyway you should dither everything, so it looks less.. plastic.

[sharprm]

Working on dithering now and i think it helps. Will post in a week or so. Will look into redoing the clothes. Like how you've made the
skin buldge on the edit, Lelle. No comments about the background - thats the part i think that looks nicest.