Pavlovich
April 18th, 2003, 12:29 AM
http://www.rsad.edu/~mpavlovi/selfportrait.htm
this is my first attempt at digital painting; basically i have a small mirror pegged to my wall about 4 feet in front of me (behind my computer). i started out planning on just doing a quick sketch because i was bored of molesting vertices for CA and i felt like doing something a little more satisfying; i ended up spending just over an hour on it. i know there are certain rules to painting and mixing colors for shadows and fleshtones and just painting in general but i'll be damned if i could remember any of them, so i ended up just trying to 'paint' what i saw.
this isnt just my first digital painting attempt; it's also nearly my first painting period, and certainly my first human/flesh-color work pretty much...ever. i do a lot of figure (last year, anyway) but never any color stuff...so there are a lot of firsts going on here. i'm also a painter nooB (i used painter 6 with just a normal brush on a 'default' layer over a sketch i did on the canvas layer), so there's no fancy technique going on here, just pick a color and scribble (ad nauseam).
definately open to critique; i know the proportions are a little off; eyes, nose, ears and mouth (i guess that's...the whole face) are a little funky...but it is really just a fun little first for me, just getting to play with new software and techniques and of course color, of which i'm still very new to for some reason. if you have any painter techniques or basics you'd like to share i'd love to hear them
(please to note: the haggard, sickly, and disheveled look is all actually part of my face...one of the perks of end-of-the-year computer animation)
this is my first attempt at digital painting; basically i have a small mirror pegged to my wall about 4 feet in front of me (behind my computer). i started out planning on just doing a quick sketch because i was bored of molesting vertices for CA and i felt like doing something a little more satisfying; i ended up spending just over an hour on it. i know there are certain rules to painting and mixing colors for shadows and fleshtones and just painting in general but i'll be damned if i could remember any of them, so i ended up just trying to 'paint' what i saw.
this isnt just my first digital painting attempt; it's also nearly my first painting period, and certainly my first human/flesh-color work pretty much...ever. i do a lot of figure (last year, anyway) but never any color stuff...so there are a lot of firsts going on here. i'm also a painter nooB (i used painter 6 with just a normal brush on a 'default' layer over a sketch i did on the canvas layer), so there's no fancy technique going on here, just pick a color and scribble (ad nauseam).
definately open to critique; i know the proportions are a little off; eyes, nose, ears and mouth (i guess that's...the whole face) are a little funky...but it is really just a fun little first for me, just getting to play with new software and techniques and of course color, of which i'm still very new to for some reason. if you have any painter techniques or basics you'd like to share i'd love to hear them
(please to note: the haggard, sickly, and disheveled look is all actually part of my face...one of the perks of end-of-the-year computer animation)