Illo Crit
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- andrewlynch
I would appreciate anyone taking a look at this illo I did and giving me some tips. Keep in mind I'm more a designer & not an illustrator. I started with a less than flattering shot of my friend , (more challenging) I did a couple versions with minor changes to the sunglasses.
possible problem areas: ears, under nose, forehead
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- unknown0
woah take those specs off man you're making her look like a real dick hahah.
darken the eyebrows and bring more tonal value into it, its looking a bit flat. and bring out some more under her nose (not boogers tho!)
a bit more definition needed, the ears look a bit rushed too.
- andrewlynch0
tx rasko - yeah good call on the ears, i did rush them. So the specs dont work for you ,huh
- unknown0
heheh yeah sorry - I have a personal aversion to that style of shade, nothing to do with your illustration!
- CyBrainX0
I would experiment with different backgrounds. Also, the photo is terrible. It's overexposed and making you have a flat result in your illustration. I would take a series of pictures. I'm sure she's a much prettier girl than that photo would suggest also. Give more detail to the hair. Check some of Brooke's work: http://www.lifeinvector.com
- f1point70
shades don't work me either!
try using subtle radial gradients to suggest highlights on her face.. problem is lighting is bad on the origininal shot so it mite be diff to correct that now..nice colours.. not sure about the background tho..
tip for doing faces: eyes the areas around the eyes, mouth, head shape and positioning are the most important!!
- andrewlynch0
tx - all good suggestions. I guess i chose that horrible photo cuz the features were so clear. i guess it would make more sense to shoot for the purpose of the illo. Any lighting work best?
Also any suggestions for bkrnd. a textural scene - or different gradient.
tx all
- brooke0
Yes, it will be easier to render, to add more detail, if you increase the contrast in your photo reference. The more detail you see, the better.
Nice work so far. Keep going.
- kodap0
well, to start, the photo doesn't help much, you need to get more contrast with that, maybe a posterization to see how it would look with 3 colors or more, but dunno if you can improve for a better result with what you did yet,
watch the glasses, they look like hand-scisor cut from a plastic bottle.I'd still recommend you to get a better photo, it seems that the flash distorts her face appearance.
- andrewlynch0
Probably not going to start from a new photo - doing this just for fun. I understand what you said about the glasses being too cut out.
I think the original style i was going for was to do it in the least number of colors with no gradations seeing as I may transfer it to a canvas (and gradations would make it more complex)
- bomy_dick0
yeah.. the pic you chose is horrible.. too much light, we don't see the neck, orientation of the head is not interesting.
take another one
- crapmeister0
I don't like it very much
It looks too flat.
Also it needs more details.
If u don't wanna go into details u should simplify it even more.
- crapmeister0
the quality of the original photograph doesn't matter that much.
the original photograph of this one sucked 2( overexposed,..)
but it came out okayhttp://www.lifeinsepia.com/harpo…
selfpromotion rocks :p
- crapmeister0
so how did it turned out?
- f1point70
that's a nice illo crapm!! tones are nicely handled!!
- carver0
she looks like she might visit the 'darkside'-if you can confirm this is true, i think i might be in trouble as my untrammelled ability to psycho-analyse individuals from mugshots is now uncanny and way beyond the pail!
however i may be proved wrong!
- crapmeister0
thanks f1!
U have a cool site man
but it seems I can't see your personal work( paintings and sketchbook)
- MrBixler0
Shit the bed, she looks like a crash test dummy. Who knows, she probably is.
- crapmeister0
lol