Portrait

[gliding]

  It's been a really long time since I've done any real pixeling, so I decided to do a small portrait. I'd really like some nice C&C to help me learn from this piece. Thanks guys

[Franky G]

I think its a great piece! I have a few touch up reccomendations.

1. I think her hair needs some shading. The white hightlights are good but it looks a little plain.
2. I think there is a little too much shading around her mouth and nose. I'd say her nose even looks a little skew. If you remove the shading on the right side and straighten up the left it should look better. also a little too much shading around the corner of her lip.

i have an edit but can't upload it right now.

[gliding]

 Thanks Franky,
Here's what i came up with so far after your edits. What do you think?



edit, my main problems are getting the mouth to look relaxed without overshading, so i hope someone can help me out with this as well

[ndchristie]

little edit trying to define a few things :

[gliding]

Wow, I really appreciated the edit adarias. I took as much as i could to heart, although I kept the face slightly thinner than yours.
 
I also changed the eyes somewwhat and tried to define things a bit more. any comments?

[Franky G]

Ok heres mine based on your last edit.

EDIT: (was previously in JPG format)

[gliding]

Thank you for the edit Frankym, I just don't know if it really fits the direction i was going for. I do, however, see where the edit on the hair is going- mine seems a bit to square/angular.

[ndchristie]

Franky, haven't you made her quite manly now?  and jpeg'd?

Glid - the reason i filled out the cheek wasn't so much to make her fat; there are some necessary structures that people like to carve into when drawing women that really cant be carved.  The biggest issue I have with the current and all past iterations is that she looks like that guy in the health-class videos who lost half his jaw chewing tobacco :

[Helm]

I wouldn't say Franky's is more manly, just less anime. There's all sorts of face shapes, and gliding's free to go for whichever he wants, of course.

[gliding]

Thanks for the crits guys,

Franky G: I think your edit is very valid (even though it seems more masculine), but I don't know if it's going in the direction i really want for this piece. I do see how the edit on the hair could be used though.

Adarias: I sort of see where you're going with the comment on the jawline. Does this look better?

I'm trying to find a happy medium between the rounder face yours demonstrates, and a sharper jawline that i'm going for.

Helm: thanks for that aswell, do you have any crits regarding the face shapes that might hold with the style. I was also wondering if you guys (including the others) had any ideas as far as the colours go. I'm still feeling iffy about the blue/green as a mid tone (it might just be my looking at this portrait for too long :/)