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Damien by ~cinderscar:iconcinderscar:

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©2005-2009 ~cinderscar
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Submitted: February 16, 2005
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I was getting really annoyed at my old description for this picture, so here goes something new:

This is was portrait of a friend of mine that I tweaked and changed (alot) to turn it into a portrait of a character of mine, named Damien (not to be confused with my character Daemion, of course ;)). I'm not entirely pleased with the perspective, because I sort of changed it near the end of the picture without going back and reworking anything. I'm also not very happy with his neck, because there isn't very much definition to it. I love the hair, and I loved the eyes more before they got shiny-ified. This in-progress view of the picture shows everything that's good about it. That was the original angle/lighting/etc., and as you can see, it changed alot from then to the current version. I'm not sure if I like it better or not, but I can't really do anything about it.

I plan to go back and add more details and definition to his lips and neck, and hopefully make his eyes look better. I may work on the angle of the face more, but that really requires effort...

PLEASE GIVE ME A CRITIQUE OR SOME CONSTRUCTIVE CRITISISM ON HOW TO MAKE THIS BETTER =)
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~spongerat:iconspongerat: Feb 16, 2005, 10:24:34 PM
i have nothing to say but plus-fave for this
~CrazySkye:iconCrazySkye: Feb 16, 2005, 10:30:30 PM
Tis a very coo pic! I love the view-so interesting! But, because the view is kinda lik elooking up at his face, you might wanna draw a lil bit more of underneath his chin! But I donno...that might just be the way that the model looked, and I have never seen em...so I guess I ain't a very good judge then, eh?
Skye

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!Tsukina:iconTsukina: Feb 16, 2005, 10:33:16 PM
holy~~~ o_O;; you're super at cg!! ahhh < 3

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~angler-photi:iconangler-photi: Feb 16, 2005, 10:35:49 PM
Yay~! The mole-things look kind of unrealistic 'cause they look like splotches of paint for some odd reason, and the string around his neck doesn't quite look very realistic. The left side of the picture (my pov) is kind of lacking in background; it contrasts a bit much with the right side (my pov).

I love the liquid quality of the hair. So shiny . . . *_*;; *reaches out to touch; fingers crash against screen* ow.

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~FrogLord:iconFrogLord: Feb 16, 2005, 10:44:39 PM
Hey! I like it! :D

One thing I might say, tho, is that the strings on his neck look a tad bit too sharp.... maybe if you did some shading (if possible) on his neck, or make the strings a softer black, then it would be sweet.

The side of his face looks way better with the hair there. It fits his face more and makes him look more... like a guy. :P It's much better.

Man, if only the real person saw this... they'd think it was cool. :D

.... , I've gotten a lot of favs on you, huh? Too much coolness.... :P

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~Immp:iconImmp: Feb 16, 2005, 11:26:07 PM
Hoohooo full blown out portrait. Ok time to be picky! Well its hard to point out things that need to be fixed without the reference, BUT first thing I notice all over is that with that seemingly strong light source more defined shadows might be needed. Like the hair going over the forehead the skin color remains the same across. Um..the frekles look like they're all the same color exactly..they shouldnt since some have more light on them and such. I think I kinda said the same things with the link picture..about the edges between things (skin and clothing, hair and face_ seem to be too clean cut as it was all different layers or...the mask tool =O (which I wouldnt recomend when doing painterly pictures) aaand the teeth look a little flat? 0_o I dunno I'm tired.
~ladydicapolis:iconladydicapolis: Feb 17, 2005, 12:50:09 AM
i know this in't a very helpful comment but who knows, id just like to say that this pic looks freakeshly life like, did you go over a photograph?

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~cinderscar:iconcinderscar: Feb 17, 2005, 7:42:12 AM
Thanks, I appreciated it anyway ^_^ I used a photo as reference for the preliminary sketch/scribble/color-jot, but after that I had fun sorta wingin' it.

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~cinderscar:iconcinderscar: Feb 17, 2005, 7:56:48 AM
Hahaha... it was all painted on one layer, except the hair, actually.

The lighting is off because the lighting in my reference was so weird (well, not to say that I wasn't at fault either, but shhh!). It had this strong, yellow light coming from the lights on the ceiling, and this soft, cold, bluish light coming from the windows on the other side of the picture. When I added the background, I forgot about that other light source... so now it just looks as you mentioned, weird. I think I'll have a fun time going back over this and fixing the lighting! Thanks for mentioning it; I would have completely forgotten/ignored the problems --_--;

(oh, and shush about the freckles ;) you're not supposed to notice, hee hee)

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~cinderscar:iconcinderscar: Feb 17, 2005, 7:57:45 AM
I'm still not happy with that side of his face, actually. The necklace and freckles were sorta spur-of-the-moment last-minute sorta stuff... I'm not really happy with how I did them, either. Thanks!

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