Style Imitation Portraits 7.3/15

[ptoing]

Good start, but:

-Too noisy
-Too much dither
-Chin area does not read well
-Purple/blue combo on top of the head burns, esp the purple against the grey.

Try to see the colours as values first, as colours second. This is a general tip for most limited palettes.
And still, as Helm already said, try focusing on values more before you start dithering and such.

[ilkke]

Well, seems to me you're awfully far from Ptoing's style, so far.
As for familiarizing with EGA, I think Ptoing laid out most of the working color schemes for you.

[willfaulds]

thanks ptoing and ilkke.

i thought i'd perhaps be best to start this one off in grey scale - i realise how once your's are desaturated they all still read perfectly... infact it made me wonder whether i need to recalibrate this monitor as i was surprised by some of the results!

he's fully mirrored at the moment (i think i'll only alter that on the hair)

[willfaulds]

i think i've got this one coloured as far as i can and tried to maintain a link to the style.

... then i thought it didn't have a distinct enough character when look at ptoing's. i though a scary mage was missing from the set?

[ilkke]

Much better.
You might want to go into more geometrical stylization if you want to bring it closer to Ptoing.

[eck]

bychance are you drawing on a mac using 'pixen'?  your top portrait there has 90 colors in it in a similar manor that pixen fucks with your colors.  if you ARE using pixen, go to the pixen website, and go to the latest beta, and download it, and it should work properly, OR go to palette -> switch to manual mode, and insert the amount of colors that it SHOULD be.  if your not using pixen, simply find yourself a new drawing application (graphicsgale, promotion, paint)

[willfaulds]

can you reference by filename eck? i can't see the problem.

but at a guess i think its more likely that your software is miss counting the colours as i certainly can't see that many colours in any of the pieces.

i am working on a mac but using photoshop.

[AdamAtomic]

i read it as 10 colors...

[ptoing]

Made a little edit as to how I would change it.
The red does not work to aa black and dark grey, it's too saturated and burns. That red and dark gray is a very risky combination in general.
As far as imitation of my style goes, Ilkke is right, I tend to go either geometric, all out round or a mix between, but i always try to keep it clean and sharp looking.
The face in yours has several areas which do not read too well mouth/chin area, and others where you have odd changes from light to dark in dither, like in the sides of the neck.
The nose is also a bit too thin looking i think, and the highlight makes it look razor sharp.
And finally I would aa more



Also I encourage everyone who will is trying to imitate to make edits of his stuff, in case they are posting here on pix anyway. This would deffo be the best help in this case.

[willfaulds]

thankyou ptoing i am finding it so interesting to compare. i have been flipping from one to the other for ages. 

i will make an edit of mine to conform a little more. neglected to aa in my haste...

but i'm enjoying this alot... and i feel that i am learning so much


an attempt at self portrait ish. i think at first the WIP looks like Bert (Bert & Ernie) which makes me laugh.