Haven't been critiqued in ages

[jordith]

Oops... posted this in the wrong section... great start. Oh well.

Little background about me: I'm about 5 years out of college now. It's been a LONG time since I've been critiqued. I'm afraid of having a big head and this pic has been in the works for a while, so go nuts. I need to be reminded of what I need to work on since for the last while I haven't had much success finding a forum for professionals.
Here it is.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/Jordith/4dcf125a.jpg

thanks!

[jfwalls]

This image is nice, but I went to your webpage that is on deviantart, and saw a completely different quality of work. Your comic book pages you have on there are not at the same quality as this image. I'm assuming that you relied heavily upon reference for this image, in which case it's good, and I can't really crit too much other than you did a great job of replicating your source. In your other work (the comic pages) though I see a distinct lack of accurate anatomy, poor use of color, and shakey linework. You should post the other work if you want worthwhile crits.

[Jedmo]

I agree with jfwalls, particularly about the difference between this piece and the works from your imagination seen on your devart page. It seems that your pieces taken from photo reference are good but your other pieces need some work. As far as this piece specifically goes, the background is unfocused and unreadable. It says to me that you didnt put much thought into what was supposed to go back there and just slapped something in at the end. This may not be the case but thats what it looks like. Also, her ear looks like its sticking out a bit too much. I apologize if this seems pretty blunt but you asked for worthwhile comments and here they are. Dont let this dissuade you from continuing to post here though, as I think you stand to gain a lot by participation in these forums. Good luck.

[jordith]

Whoa, hey, totally appreicated and definately not discouraging. To be totally honest, yes, the background was abstracted ... which is a mistake for me. I don't do abstract. I should have gone with something more planned and more 'my' style. I'll probably go back sometime and fix it up in good.
As for my other works on my devart page, believe me, I know they need work. The reason why I don't even include them in my gallery here is because they were rushed. Mistakes were simply overlooked in order to meet deadlines. Several of those images were done in under 2 hours. The reason I submitted /this/ image is because the completion of this picture marks a new start for me, now that I'm off a time-sucking project, I have actual time to do art I WANT, like this. As for photo reference, I've never met the girl, so I didn't have much choice, and the photo I did use was blurry and faded, so a lot of the finer details were improvised.

[jfwalls]

You should post the photo with it.

[jordith]

here's the photo: I cleaned it up, naturally, with Painter 9 as best as I could.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/Jordith/audreykid.jpg

[BLADES]

Haha, nice job dude. It isn't a paintover though is it? :P

Just kidding, it looks good.

[jordith]

Heh, nope. Not a paintover. Did this from scratch with both pictures in the working window.... I wanted to stick to as traditional of techniques as possible, so I didn't do the 'superimpose image over actual painting' trick, nor did I really fix up the hue on the picture; I wanted to try and make my own skintones.

[Egets]

Haha, nice job dude. It isn't a paintover though is it? :P

Just kidding, it looks good.


if you are doing paintovers you are just doing yourself a very bad favour, you may get short moment of admiration but are you acquaring skills that will carry you over from amateur artist to a professional. I never cheat because Im too proud and ambitious, and I dont really care for other peoples opinions or admirations or such I just want to be happy where my skills are developing and keep my own personal life interesting and fascinating in that way

This image is just phenomenal its even better than the original photograph :D :blah: 8) :yayca:

You should post it to the finished section what are you needing crits anymore ?

[Artifex33]

Everyone's pretty well covered it, but no one's mentioned the length of the nose is a bit too long. shorten it up a bit, and carry the rest of the lower features with it, and the likeness will be better.