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Critique => Pixel Art => Topic started by: Joseph on February 19, 2007, 11:47:55 pm

Title: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: Joseph on February 19, 2007, 11:47:55 pm

Hi.
I'm starting on some portraits for my rpg.  This one is Art, my main character.  I'm having troubles with his eyes so far.  Anyone mind editing please?
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/joseph_ch/pixel/own%20edits/art.gif)

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: Solitaire on February 19, 2007, 11:58:04 pm

(http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9328/quuuiiickkknw4.gif)
Here's a quick one.Mabye it'll give you some ideas.

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: Joseph on February 20, 2007, 12:01:32 am

kind of but to me, it just doesnt match.  thanks though.

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: rabidbaboy on February 20, 2007, 12:08:53 am

I like this piece, very moody!
(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/9937/edit1jb8.png)
I don't know what kind of personality she has, so... idk.
Tried different approaches...

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: Joseph on February 20, 2007, 12:32:44 am

he,  and thanks, I like the last a lot.

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: Xion on February 20, 2007, 12:35:29 am

It's a dude? Might wanna give him a sharper jawline and thicker eyebrows.

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: Joseph on February 20, 2007, 12:46:06 am

mind trying to show me?  this is probably my first portrait of anyone other than myself, and from those of myself, they never did turn out very good.
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/joseph_ch/pixel/own%20edits/art-1.gif)---then---(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/joseph_ch/pixel/own%20edits/art-2.gif)

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: konjak on February 20, 2007, 01:12:55 am

To me it looks like he smelled something bad. You should make the neck darker.

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: Joseph on February 20, 2007, 01:50:19 am

the neck is only temp.  what do you mean by the way he looks?  how could I fix that?

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: Joseph on February 20, 2007, 02:36:03 am

heres my wip on Jennie-a girl
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/joseph_ch/pixel/own%20edits/jennie.gif)

edit:
lol, I think its horrible...  any ideas?  she isnt supposed to be so goth looking...could someone try to make her kinda sexy?

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: Rydin on February 20, 2007, 05:07:50 am

I think the shape and everything is dead-on...but the colors are very flat...I donno, it may be a mood thing, and it is personal preference of course, but I tried to make the colors and light a bit more dynamic...

(http://img481.imageshack.us/img481/3092/girlfacecolorskd1.gif)

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: Jake on February 20, 2007, 05:06:29 pm

heres a quick edit on your main character's face:

(http://nuqlear.com/crap/face.png)

gave him a realistic looking mouth, wider nose, stronger jaw, thicker eyebrow, closed his eyes a bit, and darkened his neck.

a few critiques on the girl:

her mouth is too low, her nose looks too round (where are her nostrils?), and imo her face could be bigger.

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: mangust on February 21, 2007, 01:53:14 pm

Maybe it's small edit help you:
(http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/5236/joseph01pl6.gif)
Than I want to say about form of face (light, shadow) and contrast... also about his smile  :D (he is too sad). I don't edit type this face too much, because that's you choice! But if you paint man, than he not impede a more manly chin and cheek-bone. This type face of young man (15-17 years).

For girl: Paint here more large in this size, as a man. And how make her sexy? Paint as here (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/37654115/?qo=29&q=by%3Alolita-art&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps) in pixel, for a start, with comment other people. Because now she is a faceless, but something in her prettily )))

And... good luck!

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: Helm on February 21, 2007, 02:25:47 pm

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lol, I think its horrible...  any ideas?  she isnt supposed to be so goth looking...could someone try to make her kinda sexy?

I think you should start with learning how to draw a human face from the fundamentals. Right now you're having kinda blobish faces and muddy features, all very closely packed together and without much distinction. You would benefit greatly from a crash-course in shading primitive volumes, a study of facial construction and fine art rendering. All things you could get from a beginner 'learn to draw' volume, and probably a better way to go about it than by learning via the other-can-of-worms medium of pixel art. Just my opinion.

Title: Re: [wip] rpg portrait - troubles
Post by: ndchristie on February 21, 2007, 06:34:55 pm

http://www.portrait-artist.org/face/ is a good way to get going if you want a jump-start, although it'a not as comprehensive as it could be.

the main thing i think these need is a good lightsource.  i had a quick go:

(http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7176/edittg9.png) vs (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a319/joseph_ch/pixel/own%20edits/art-2.gif)

nixed some of your colors not to necessarily conserve them, but to make the edit go quicker.  i also may have femmed him up a bit, which isnt so much a suggestion as it is my personal taste in men.  i would still though take some time to see what's what about the shape of the face, because the current bauble isn't working so well for you in terms of portraiture