[PORTRAIT]
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[STEPS]
[CONCEPT ART]
-this is a cg I quickly made to figure out what was wrong with my pallete...
Bumpity! I comletely revamped the face, the colors, and even threw in a piece of concept art I made to figure out why my colors were so horrid previously. Turns out graphics gale HSL values are a tad different from photoshops. In gg increasing the luminance value actually *decreases* saturation, if you were to compare increasing luminance in photoshop that is. So anyways I unified all the colors to a nice orange tone, restricted my highlights more, so they're minor details (they made the pevious image look absolutely putrid color wise)
Yes, the concept art's jaw is weirdly deformed, trinagluar/anime like, it was an accident lol. I rounded it more out in my pixel version.
Eventually I'll get around to smoothing the rest of the details, however some of them are still off, and I dont want to destroy all my hard dithering again.
As for everybodys C&C's:
@Camus: I do understand exactly what you mean so no worries ^_^. While doing this image I'm learning things that are helping my cg and tweaking stills alot, and its fun, I suppose, in a very sadistic way =D! My image does lack the dynamic feel of demoscene, later on I'll probably try something different, but for now I wish to get used to managing high color counts and general lighting.
@Tremulant: I'm glad your enjoying this, airbrushing is fun weeeeeeeeeeeee!
@Helm: I'm still trying to balance out the shadows, but I will be fading the edges more, this is really tricky for me. The purple? do you mean on < side, the flesh stuff behind the eye?
@Adarias: More contrast is definately a plus, I'm trying to work it in there, but I still can't get it just right. Eventually I want to go for a bg1&2 look for my portrait. They did some fabulous effects with their portraits. My concept art should kinda reflect where I'm heading I hope... Perhaps I could add some yellows for the hair highlights hmm...
@Zach: I believe you are refering to Adarias' edit? I do agree thats an improvement contrast wise. I will be tweaking the neck eventually and some shoulders might help too lol.
@flaber: I included made =P. Anyways, the colors will had some dithering to them in the very end once all tones are properly in place. The colors were just aweful heh, my newer pic should look alot better or alot worse since I've only had two people's opinion on it thusfar. I'm going to experiment around with lighting, so the entire bg is not pure black, since that would cause the image to be much darker.
[Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 REFERENCES] -not done by me... I wish I knew this artist's name XD
-Imoen
-Jaheria
-Viconia
Tell me what you think of these? I personally find them beautiful, however a few net friends of mine said they looked too dodge/burned, plasticy, and weird. I might try to tweak my pic to resemble these to a degree.
Anyways...
C&C the new stuff to death!