Female angel digipaint. - General

[IMG]http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/234/7/4/The_Sense_Of_Finding_Nostalgia_by_Infernomonster.png[/IMG] Meh some may remembere it from 3 or so months ago. I finished it today to tie some loose ends. I wanted to make a timelapse of it but I forgot the fact that my camtasia studio had didn't have trial for ti. So this time none. When I started to finish it today I discovered it was riddled with mistakes. Fixing them woudl've meant a complete remake so I'll do that sometime later. If I feel like it. HEre's that old timelapse of the first half: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3hj6r2yfqo[/media] GEneral tips pointers? It's one of my first digipaintings.

Very fancy. You got talent.

Pfft. Talent is bullshit. There's only lot of practise or retardation.

shes hot :smug:

I love it. Although her hands are very long sticks.

Oooh it's pretty bad. Thanks, I didn't notice it anymore after shading.

Feathers are pointing quite randomly rather than following a bent line based on the shape of the wing, angel wings tend to be of the angelic level so they are nice and tidy and point the same way, and that goes for wings on animals too really so it's not that angelic but rather how it works. But it sure is a pain in the ass to do. Whilst I like your colours I really don't like the way you coloured it, it's just a bunch of strokes all the way, I think it would have worked a lot better if you started with the classic soft brush and paint on the highlights and shadows with it and the paint over it again with a hard brush like you did, so basically I think it would help a lot with bot realism and harmony if you added some soft brushed shading underneath the stroked shading. Having only stroked shading makes it look very messy and chaotic. Folds here and there look a bit out of place and just added for extra wrinkleyness, but I'm not really good at giving advice on how to improve those, but it's mainly the lower body that has problems, specifically the part that sticks out right when the shaded area is done. Which I presume is about where her belly is. I also noticed that the very bottom part of the coat looks like it's going over her ass, as if her lower part is flipped around, it's also hard to see where her body parts are, after the breasts there is little indication of anything and she looks extremely tall. I also don't quite understand her pose with the way her lower part sticks out a lot and the cloth becomes visible as if it's seen from an angle. I like the look of the skull though, even though the teeth are very randomly shaded, reminds me of how I sometimes end shading stuff just to add details to it even though it shouldn't really have it. Teeth are round and have a very simple style of shading close to that of a simple and weak gradient and any other details would be holes in them. Overall it's a pretty nice painting but needs some brushing up and smoothing applied in my opinion.

bah smoothing won't save anything. If I want mistakes mixed i need to redo it. Teeth being like that was intentional as I always do them. I chose the wrong shading for them tough. Thanks for the input. I wanted to give the coat this feeling of some warmer material. I for one kind of like the feeling that hatching gave it. For the wings I should've give them softer edges and more glow, tough I dind't have time for that since I really wanted to finish it today. Only things I did today were the head and coat shading. Took me 6 hours of my regular work speed.

[QUOTE=3v3ryb0dy;24269918]bah smoothing won't save anything. If I want mistakes mixed i need to redo it. Teeth being like that was intentional as I always do them. I chose the wrong shading for them tough. Thanks for the input. I wanted to give the coat this feeling of some warmer material. I for one kind of like the feeling that hatching gave it. For the wings I should've give them softer edges and more glow, tough I dind't have time for that since I really wanted to finish it today. Only things I did today were the head and coat shading. Took me 6 hours of my regular work speed.[/QUOTE] As said, there is nothing wrong with the hatching itself, but I think it's wrong for the hatching to not have some smoother shading beneath it so that the hatching becomes the details in the cloth and the soft shading beneath becomes the actual shading. Softer edges could probably help yeah, but if you get the shape and direction right then it's not really as necessary, at least if it was me I would chose fixing the direction rather than the edges.

ooh so that's what you meant. That could work.

[QUOTE=3v3ryb0dy;24269409]Pfft. Talent is bullshit. There's only lot of practise or retardation.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't claim talent as bullshit, but only to a certain degree.

i like watching timelapses