A Pixelation Selfportrait

[lollige]

I allways wanted to have one ;



Thats where I started with.. no tracings or wathever...

And this is where I am now:


Please Comment, and edits are welcome too as usual!

[Kyle]

This isn't a critique of your pixelwork, but you should shave your eyebrow in two and get rid of that retarded mustache.

[lollige]

This isn't a critique of your sprite, but you should shave your eyebrow in two and get rid of that retarded mustache.

lol ur like the number 1000 saying that..
yeah I should get rid of the mustache.. but the eyebrow.. What man shaves his eyebrow??

[Helm]

Noone. Keep your eyebrows proudly. This isn't critique-your-face, this is Pixelation.

[Sohei]

lollige

>What man shaves his eyebrow??

This one definitely does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Ue12dsfC8  ^_^

[baccaman21]

Don't take this the wrong way but you've got a more elongated face than the portrait suggests. And you're neck is quite narrow. And I have to say a bizarrely symettrical face too.

Generally the head is too wide (in your rendition), you need to streamline those jowls...

speakling of which the way you've shaded your jowls makes it look like you've got whopping lambchops... That you blatantly don't have...

You're lips are too flat at the top, you need to make them more cupids bow like.

I'd be inclined to focus on your features for now rather than try and place your spectacles... do that later once you've got the features sorted...

[ndchristie]

real men obviously use tweezers...

you and I are similar in that we have raised noses.  while it is good to honor oneself, you're accentuating the feature, making your piece look like an overly piggy caricature.

your colors right now in the face are banding and fighting each other.  try to figure a way to have them blend instead of band.  mostly, it has to do with the facct that they are (fairly) uniform in thickness.  you have cheeks!  draw them!

even if you feel a need to wear such scruff, it's too small a detail to worry about pixelling.  if it were even you could suggest it with a gray tone, but it's patchy.

light on the philtrum - why?

[lollige]

I cant pixel here, im on a computer with paint only (I normally pixel in paint, exept this time, I wanted to try working with layers) and I dont have the origional files too.. but tomorrow I have alot of time, so expect a nice update

Every day I still notice im not a native speaker... and the things you wrote contain alot of words I do not exactly know. Could you please correct my mistakes etc.?

Don't take this the wrong way but you've got a more elongated [stretched] face than the portrait suggests. And you're neck is quite narrow. And I have to say a bizarrely symettrical face too.

Generally the head is too wide (in your rendition), you need to streamline those jowls [lower cheeks?]...

speakling of which the way you've shaded your jowls makes it look like you've got whopping lambchops []... That you blatantly absolutely, clearly don't have...

You're lips are too flat at the top, you need to make them more cupids bow like.

I'd be inclined to focus on your features for now rather than try and place your spectacles... do that later once you've got the features sorted...

real men obviously use tweezers...

you and I are similar in that we have raised noses.  while it is good to honor oneself, you're accentuating the feature, making your piece look like an overly piggy caricature.

your colors right now in the face are banding [] and fighting each other.  try to figure a way to have them blend instead of band.  mostly, it has to do with the facct that they are (fairly) uniform in thickness.  you have cheeks!  draw them!

even if you feel a need to wear such scruff [??], it's too small a detail to worry about pixelling.  if it were even you could suggest it with a gray tone, but it's patchy.

light on the philtrum - why?

I made alot of use of interglot.com and dictionary.com, but I think I understand most of it
Corrections/explainations are welcome, youll see an updte tomorrow

[baccaman21]

lol...

Here's the author Chuck Palaniuk sporting some mighty LAMBCHOPS...

(he wrote fight club and choke to name few books)

And someone else you might recognize... with the ultimate in lambchops...


Can you see the connection?

Jowls are indeed your lower cheeks yes.

"I'd be inclined to focus on your features for now rather than try and place your spectacles... do that later once you've got the features sorted... " [/i] = don't put your spectacles on until you've finished drawing you facial features - you will find it easier.

I'll let adarias explain what scruff is and banding are...

Presumably you know what a philtrum is then?

[lollige]

Presumably you know what a philtrum is then?

Dictionary.com had a clear description
I understand the lambchops now
Ill start working on the portrait now! 

Ok one step further! Btw I did not understand the spectacles sentence because I did not use a translator and tought about Spectacular things.. I have to do the spectacular things later XD
Well I kept it now, but I did not focus on it like I did before..
I think this is a huge improvement