dirtface, wip. coloring help

[zeroe]

this just a face im using to practice folds and creases as facial features with. Its still quite early in development. But i always have trouble in getting smooth surfaces while rendering. Got any tips or tutorials for me? Im still kinda noob so be easy :D

http://www.jinfury.no-ip.com/hasus/dirtface.jpg

[William b. Hand]

i'm seeing a cute little red and white "x".:)

[Groady]

If he's supposed to look like he's made out of shit you'd doing a great job! :beer:

[deschamps]

Try searching for color theory in the tutorial section. Here is a good one that helped me a lot by Prometheus|ANJ
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3148

[sentinel2001]

The sense of smoothness is achieved by value gradations over a larger area. The folds in the character's face are created by the value difference between light and dark areas producing the sense of shadow. Whne that difference is large its percieved to he a deep fold. Smooth gradation creates the sensation of a smooth surface.

In my own art I used this principal in this work in progress, Voodoo Qween, produced ,unlike similar work In Adobe Illustrator. Notice the sensation of smothness produced by the gradual value shifts over her skin. Even though these shifts range from nearly white to charcoal black, they seem smooth because the occur over a relatively large area.

Voodoo Qween (http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/bc/sentinel_graphics@ameritech.net/vwp?.dir=/My+Photos/My+Art+Portfolio/Character+Illustration&.src=ph&.dnm=Voodoo+Qween.jpg&.view=t&.done=http%3a//f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/bc/sentinel_graphics@ameritech.net/lst%3f%26.dir=/My%2bPhotos/My%2bArt%2bPortfolio/Character%2bIllustration%26.src=ph%26.view=t)


In the case of your own painting I smoothed his face using two methods.

1. In the area under the mouth I eyedroppered lighter tones from the face and filled in the dark valleys in the foldsl. Then I daubed fairly tranparent highlight values over the greater surface. Finally I airbrushed some darks at the far edge of the jawline to smooth it outh there.

2. In the forehead area, I used good old gaussian blur on a selected area. Gaussian blur was used to acheive the blends on Voodoo Qween too...


Dirtface smoothed (http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/bc/sentinel_graphics@ameritech.net/vwp?.dir=/My+Photos/My+Art+Portfolio/Art+Lesson+stuff&.src=ph&.dnm=Dirtface+smoothed.jpg&.view=t&.done=http%3a//f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/bc/sentinel_graphics@ameritech.net/lst%3f%26.dir=/My%2bPhotos/My%2bArt%2bPortfolio/Art%2bLesson%2bstuff%26.src=ph%26.view=t)

By the way your picture was retouched in Corel Photopaint 10.
Voodo Qween was done in Adobe Illustrator 9

[zeroe]

thx so much for the comments
i did mine entirely in photoshop btw, dont have painter yet ;(
ill try to consider the comments when i continue work on him :D

[sentinel2001]

By the way if you REEEELY want smooth then you should try painting with the airbrush

[amphex]

red X =\