Pandahund's self portraits

[pandahund]

First self portraits in a long time and first using a tablet. I think i actually did only like 3 up to this point...

First one is from today and the second one i did yesterday. The second one didn't turn out so good as to likeness...

[Jussi Tarvainen]

Great stuff! Really like your digital painting style. I'd love to see you push how far you can go with this. I mean how photo realistic can you make it to push your own limits.

[algenpfleger]

Wooooow dude these are rad!! Show us more plz? :)

[pandahund]

Didn't write it in here yet. Better save the praise ;) Because i picked the black/white values... So they're kinda cheated.

[aperez]

sweet use of of color, whats your technique?

[pandahund]

I've done this in black/white first to get the values right. Afterwards i just created a layer with "color" blending mode and experimented. In the following you can see the b/w layer plus the layer i put on top.

[algenpfleger]

Dude those are some crazy values O_O Is that from life?

[pandahund]

Hell nooo... I wish it was ;) As i said. I am a picking bastard. lol

Still gotta find a proper mirror and start noncheated portraits.

[algenpfleger]

You mean, not only is it from a photo, it's also picked D: What's the point then? D:

Aaaanyways, look, my desk looks like this (http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o171/homeless_punkdrummer/Bild001-1.jpg), small mirrors like this one are pretty cheap and you get em anywhere :)

[pandahund]

Yeah, well. more of a photostudy. Just to get proportions right... I'll get a mirror and do proper ones.

[B u r l]

these are really nice. but i think you should move onto doing these from life, like algengflegr said. at least stop using a the colour picker for now. :P maybe try playing around with different angles of light, or facial expressions.