Attempting cg again...help needed!
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:51 pm
Hi guys! Angeliza here!
I'm new and such, so I thought I'd post a thingy I did today.^^
Alot of you guys are way better than me, so I'd like to hear your comments and advice.
(These are also examples of my art.)
Sketch:
Done with a pen on sketching paper out of boredom during school. One of the girls is messed up, (the one that says FAIL by her) so please ignore her...
Lineart:
I took the guy in the sketch and made a lineart of him.
Made in Illustrator using the pen tool, and the charcoal/pencil brushes.
Colored:
I colored the lineart from before using Photoshop.
I messed up in some places...
:/
_______________________
Edit: ...and here we go again!
I'll be posting images as I go so you guys can help me along...
The goal is for slightly realistic, glowy-skin, and super shiny, non-realistic hair and eyes of colorfulness!
XD
Here's the sketch I'm using. I drew it with a slightly more realistic style than usual because I think it'll make the realistic-ish skin look better, and I left a couple of my sketch-lines to help out with shading.
In the totorial I read for skin, the chick did not use lineart.
So, since I'm doing the skin first, I won't be using lineart yet.
...This may, or may not be a good idea.
Anyways...Let's start!
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1.
Okay, I did the background in white, than opened a new layer, used the brush to put a pinkish blurr around her, than earased the areas were skin showed and merged the layers.
(The sketch it's self is set to multiply on another layer.)
Than I opened a new layer and started a bit on the eyes. I likely won't complete them till later, though, since I'm focusing on the skin now.
2.
I changed the eye layer to invert so that it would contrast with the hair more, and cleaned up my sketch abit.
Than I opened a new layer, and started shading the skin in a light lavender set to multiply.
3.
I cleaned up the sketch some more, than went on another layer, and colored most of it with a pale peach, leaving highlights. I then merged the lavender layer with the peach one, and used the diffuse filter.
4.
Okay, I opened a new layer, did some light brown shadows on multiply, and merged it with the other skin layer. Than I opned a new layer, and used the same pinkish color that I used on the background to do the nose and lips, coloring the inside of her mouth reddish. Than I opened another layer, made some shiny spots with white, and merged them.
5.
Okay, I erased the sketch under the lips, and around the eyelids, than touched up both. Than I cleaned up the sketch and skin layers some more. I'm almost done with the skin, so I'll be moving to the eyes soon. In order to get ready for this, I selected her eyebrows with the lasso tool, and re-inverted them so that they're closer to the color I'll be using for the hair.
6.
I defined the lips and nose more with some faint shadows, and gave her some teeth. Than I went around to trace skin areas with the pen tool in the same color as the background set to multiply. After every line, I rasterized the line, using the erase tool to change and soften it as needed, than merged it with the layer I'd been merging all such lines. Ones done, I made a copy of the pen layer, than used the ink filter in the artistic area to make it black, than used find edges. After that, I erased the ugly blurrs, leaving only a neat, thin, outline. This outline I smeared and blurred as needed.
I than erased more of the sketch.
7.
I did an outline on some other skin areas that needed it, and colored a rough back for her hair using the lasso tool in the same color as her eyebrows. Although the layer is set to normal, it's still behaving like multiply, but I'll fix it.^^
8.
Okay, I've pretty much finished the eye...
It doesn't look right to me, though.
I'll keep working on it. I'm not going to bother explaining what I'm doing anymore.
Honestly, I have no idea WHAT I'm doing now. XD
I made her hair darker too, that's about it.
9.
I Fixed up the eyebrows, erased more of the sketch, and changed her hair color to a pale, greenish-blonde. I'm cleaning up her hair right now, but I decided I liked her eyes after all, and left them.
10.
I barely had any time to work on this at all today.
I desaturated her eyes abit, I'll work more on them later, changed the hair, and started cleaning it up.
Note: I decided to work on this during the weekends since I have other things to do, as well as school during the week.^^
I'm new and such, so I thought I'd post a thingy I did today.^^
Alot of you guys are way better than me, so I'd like to hear your comments and advice.
(These are also examples of my art.)
Sketch:
Done with a pen on sketching paper out of boredom during school. One of the girls is messed up, (the one that says FAIL by her) so please ignore her...
Lineart:
I took the guy in the sketch and made a lineart of him.
Made in Illustrator using the pen tool, and the charcoal/pencil brushes.
Colored:
I colored the lineart from before using Photoshop.
I messed up in some places...
:/
_______________________
Edit: ...and here we go again!
I'll be posting images as I go so you guys can help me along...
The goal is for slightly realistic, glowy-skin, and super shiny, non-realistic hair and eyes of colorfulness!
XD
Here's the sketch I'm using. I drew it with a slightly more realistic style than usual because I think it'll make the realistic-ish skin look better, and I left a couple of my sketch-lines to help out with shading.
In the totorial I read for skin, the chick did not use lineart.
So, since I'm doing the skin first, I won't be using lineart yet.
...This may, or may not be a good idea.
Anyways...Let's start!
_______________________
1.
Okay, I did the background in white, than opened a new layer, used the brush to put a pinkish blurr around her, than earased the areas were skin showed and merged the layers.
(The sketch it's self is set to multiply on another layer.)
Than I opened a new layer and started a bit on the eyes. I likely won't complete them till later, though, since I'm focusing on the skin now.
2.
I changed the eye layer to invert so that it would contrast with the hair more, and cleaned up my sketch abit.
Than I opened a new layer, and started shading the skin in a light lavender set to multiply.
3.
I cleaned up the sketch some more, than went on another layer, and colored most of it with a pale peach, leaving highlights. I then merged the lavender layer with the peach one, and used the diffuse filter.
4.
Okay, I opened a new layer, did some light brown shadows on multiply, and merged it with the other skin layer. Than I opned a new layer, and used the same pinkish color that I used on the background to do the nose and lips, coloring the inside of her mouth reddish. Than I opened another layer, made some shiny spots with white, and merged them.
5.
Okay, I erased the sketch under the lips, and around the eyelids, than touched up both. Than I cleaned up the sketch and skin layers some more. I'm almost done with the skin, so I'll be moving to the eyes soon. In order to get ready for this, I selected her eyebrows with the lasso tool, and re-inverted them so that they're closer to the color I'll be using for the hair.
6.
I defined the lips and nose more with some faint shadows, and gave her some teeth. Than I went around to trace skin areas with the pen tool in the same color as the background set to multiply. After every line, I rasterized the line, using the erase tool to change and soften it as needed, than merged it with the layer I'd been merging all such lines. Ones done, I made a copy of the pen layer, than used the ink filter in the artistic area to make it black, than used find edges. After that, I erased the ugly blurrs, leaving only a neat, thin, outline. This outline I smeared and blurred as needed.
I than erased more of the sketch.
7.
I did an outline on some other skin areas that needed it, and colored a rough back for her hair using the lasso tool in the same color as her eyebrows. Although the layer is set to normal, it's still behaving like multiply, but I'll fix it.^^
8.
Okay, I've pretty much finished the eye...
It doesn't look right to me, though.
I'll keep working on it. I'm not going to bother explaining what I'm doing anymore.
Honestly, I have no idea WHAT I'm doing now. XD
I made her hair darker too, that's about it.
9.
I Fixed up the eyebrows, erased more of the sketch, and changed her hair color to a pale, greenish-blonde. I'm cleaning up her hair right now, but I decided I liked her eyes after all, and left them.
10.
I barely had any time to work on this at all today.
I desaturated her eyes abit, I'll work more on them later, changed the hair, and started cleaning it up.
Note: I decided to work on this during the weekends since I have other things to do, as well as school during the week.^^