Ambush WIP (first time Tablet+Painter. Help me)

[Zergaloth]

Okay, my first try with Tablet + Painter IX.
Any crits welcome, but I know the anatomy of the face is quite wrong, but I didn't really worry about it.

Background will be jungly and those goggly eyes will be those of two vicious predators. :needle:

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/5296/ambushfase17vi.jpg

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/3900/ambushfase23lj.jpg

Will update soon.

:!: Feel free to take my picture and alter it in any way you want, like big red arrows where things went wrong ...

[Stupidude666]

How do you get the pic from stage one to stage 2?

[Zergaloth]

Well stage 1 is basically the first drawing, sort of composition sketch. Didn't use any pencils, I went directly for colors.

Then I selected the brown I used for the flesh, made it a little lighter and used that on the right side of the face. A darker variant of the brown was used on the left side. And then a couple of in between variants of the brown were used to add more depth and highlights. (ear, nose, ...) I also added a little red to the brown tints to give cheeks, lips and nose a little more 'blood'.

I admit I haven't done any research on where a shadow should fall on a face that was lit up that way, so my dark and light parts are probably a bit off.

At last I made a brush (first time I did that) that looked like this /
Jitter on 100% and a slightly lighter colour than the one is used for the hair.
Same thing here, darken the colour for shadow parts and lighten the color for lightened parts.