• Digitally painted Mastacheef
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Here; [IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Masterchief.png[/IMG] C&C Took 2 hours.
It helps if you don't trace, tracing won't get you very far at all in drawing.
The point was practicing painting. And since I didn't have any pre designed faces to work on, I google'd a Masterchief.
The coloring isn't very good, nor is the tracing. The only reason it looks reasonably good now is because you've combined the two and created a whole. You should learn how to blend colors better and create a more fluent transition from light to shadow. Right now you have areas that are completely messed up because of how badly the coloring is done, especially his hand and gun.
It feels too much like watercolour. There's not really a defined light source. The shading needs to bring depth to your model. Right now it still feels incredibly flat.
meh even tough it's a trace the lineart is quite horrible indeed. You chose too much of an obvious picture so everyone and their dog knew you did a trace. And you even didn't trace it well, too. You only traced lineart and then ditched the original picture and started pulling material definition out of your ass. Shading is bad, tough you managed to achive cool effect with the colours. You only used color swatches avaible in photoshop instead of making your own. Light sources are all over the place, no definite light there, no sir. And not having something to practise painting one is a very, very shit excuse. Plus it's a hard subject for a first, too. Best you took something like an apple or such and practised on it. My first was pacman and it helped me more than a trace. Use bigger canvas, like 3000x3000. Follow tutorials on subjects you don't know. Practise simpler things and do studies on material definitions, like dai did. Don't be afraid of using reference photos but do not trace off them.
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