Omg the badassery. I really like her face and lips. And hands, and ooooh, the ears.
Something about the rough lines with the smooth shading seems a little... style clashing? I dunno. I think it could benefit from a little texture to match the lines. Like... the background gradient is so smooth that on my screen I can actually see (around her feet) the edges where one shade becomes a darker shade. I think something subtle (like a grainy or scratchy texture set to soft light or something) to break that up would be nice.
Yeah, I often feel bothered by the sterile smoothness of CG coloring. I've never been able to decide what to do about it, though. I feel funny about pasting in textures over top, but I suppose I should try it before I give up on it. What I REALLY want is to have a loser, choppier coloring style, but I can't make that WORK.
Well, you could use brushes. I don't mean like tree-leaves brushes, but just something that's scratchier? Hard-edged instead of soft-edged? Like, I always, ALWAYS use a hardedged brush, even when I want relatively smooth gradients, like in this for example. I really like being able to see the brush-strokes.
Btw, my tumblr is 'harbek' and my art-only tumblr is harbekart.
I... honestly don't even know what you mean. Like, those weird splotchy ones, faux art and whatever? To color with? Or afterwards over top? I guess I could see that maybe, on a really low opacity or something.
Take a wild guess what my tumblr account name is? You'd never guess, I'm so inscrutable.
I meant to colour with. But like, most of the time, for colouring I just use a simplee round brush, with 100% hardness, and opacity set to pen pressure. For lineart or whatever, I use flow and brush size both set to pen pressure - sometimes I set opacity to pen pressure too, for sketchier things, and depending on how hard I want the lines.
And then like... yeah, those splotchy ones, with opacity set to pen pressure, so that I go over it again and again to make the shading smooth.
I... can sort of visualize that. I will try it on the next thing I can color. But I'm still mostly using the mouse, because I HATE THE TABLET. HAAAAAAAATE.
...Why exactly do you hate the tablet? Is it just the not being able to look at what your hand is doing, or? (I feel like I've asked this before, but I'm asking again.)
Just, cause, you know... There really is only so much you can do with a mouse to colour on computer. I gave up on it 6-7 years ago or something. If I try it now I get like.. instant wrist pain. Hell, even the laptop touchpad is easier.
Something about the rough lines with the smooth shading seems a little... style clashing? I dunno. I think it could benefit from a little texture to match the lines. Like... the background gradient is so smooth that on my screen I can actually see (around her feet) the edges where one shade becomes a darker shade. I think something subtle (like a grainy or scratchy texture set to soft light or something) to break that up would be nice.
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Btw, my tumblr is 'harbek' and my art-only tumblr is harbekart.
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Take a wild guess what my tumblr account name is? You'd never guess, I'm so inscrutable.
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And then like... yeah, those splotchy ones, with opacity set to pen pressure, so that I go over it again and again to make the shading smooth.
Idk, here have some videos of how I do it, this portrait with this video, and then this other portrait with this video, and lastly this portrait with this video.
That is assuming you use a tablet.
I went and visited your tumblr the moment you said you had one, so, yeeahh.
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Just, cause, you know... There really is only so much you can do with a mouse to colour on computer. I gave up on it 6-7 years ago or something. If I try it now I get like.. instant wrist pain. Hell, even the laptop touchpad is easier.
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