Hello. Thanks for the ideas and crits! That's what I like to hear, you spotted a lot of errors and 'near-errors'. I went back to edit a few things:
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First of all, the eyes. Locrian and Darion are absolutely right, the rendering was just silly. Too bright, too 'blankety'. It's not correct now either, I just darkened the whites and made them more flat, but it's still not as 'alive' as in step 3. I slimmed down the nose shadow, which was a good idea, put a tricky little underlight on the lip and eased up on the lip outlines on both lip edges. Minor tweaks here and there, really, besides the eyes. But the eyes trouble me still. Edits, anyone? The shape is proper, it's the rendering that's doing things to it.
The eyebrows, chin and stuff stay as they are, currently. I'm still pondering David's crits, will see...
The colors are so cool; it almost looks like gasoline when its on concrete.
Yes! That's the effect! Swirling purples and diffracted orange and and and ALIEN mixes of otherwordly beauty. And the smell makes you high too.
boy you are ugly!!!
My mom doesn't seem to think so!!!