I fucking hate this picture. I figured it would get better as I go but the further along I went, the worse it got. There are so many different shading techniques and I'm having a lot of difficulty figuring out which technique is best for which lighting. I probably should have gone with simple soft cell shading for this, but I thought I'd flex my muscles... muscles I don't have apparently.
Anyway, the fire technique is nice. Something I picked up in a tutorial. A little more practice and that will look sick.
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Wow man, it looks like you been keeping up and busy with the art. Since I don't color myself I will just comment on the shading aspect. I would say get an actionfigure and put a light on it for reference on how shadows fall. Everything breaks down to basically a ball, cube, or cylinder so think of that when you are figuring out how to shade volumes. Also if you get into edges, there are basically two types. Cast shadows (hard edged like a shadow coming off of a nose onto the face) and form shadows (soft edges like as that nose shadow goes around the curve of the cheek). Shadows like from the hair falling onto the face is generally a "cast shadow". The volume of say an arm or a leg usually will be "form shadows". Hopefully that makes some sense haha.
Oh and I would also work out how you shade hair so it looks a little more "strandy" or the anime thing with the highlight around the top of the head.
Great to see you keeping at it Matt!
Thanks for the info. I've been driving myself crazy finding tutorials to read and watch. There's a lot of good stuff out there and I just need to find the one that suits my style.
Yeah on the hair. Ever since I got this tablet, my hair has been coming out as one big mass on the tops of heads... I saw a video that defines the hair entirely in the coloring that I'm going to try next.
Thanks again for stopping by Sam =)
Crap, form shadow isn't the nose shadow going over the curve of the cheek, it's the soft edge of the curve of the cheek as the light goes into shadow.
Here's a really detailed tutorial that my buddy, Niklas did a while back. I'm not sure if you have seen it but it's real thorough.
http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm
Sam, that tutorial is awesome! Thanks a million =)
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