Portrait

[geoceb]

This is the first time I have done a digital painting.
This portrait was commissioned by a client to whom I’m going to start doing work for, he insisted to have his portrait made in a comic style. I wanted to spend more time with it but this is how he wanted to be.

Crits. are welcome.


http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e373/geoceb/4e27758e.jpg

[dogfood]

The hard black line at the gums is a detractor. Perhaps just some suggestion of line, with the color shift you have, will do the trick. The black "c" on the color is also demanding some attention that it doesn't deserve.

Not bad, though.

[geoceb]

Thank you so much for the critique.

I know that I needed to focus on the color a bit more and to cline up the black outlines, but my client wanted to look rather rough more, as comic as possible. I will follow what you told me for my next project.

[nonie]

The collar of the suit is goofy too - it should stand up a little around the neck, not spread out ove the shoulders. Check your reference for that - suits are very difficult to draw without reference.

I like the detail of the teeth, but yeah, definitely too hard a line there, "comic" or not. I won't go into my "comics are a genre not a style" rant right now - but even in very basic inking, you vary line weight according to value difference, lighting, and emphasis, thus the emphasis created by having the entire line there is distracting. It makes you look directly at the mouth. My eyes go "Mouth, Eyebrows, Shirt Collar." Probably not the eye path you're looking for.