original faceset/character picture, take a look!

[Gulch666]

In Game shot

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http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m244/gulch666/Untitled-2-1.jpg[/img]

B&W Shading Layer

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http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m244/gulch666/heroink1shadingonly.jpg[/img]

Color Applied

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http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m244/gulch666/heroink1.png[/img]

Face needs to be redone, i drew it with my mouse, other than that critique is welcome.

it goes along with the animated battler in my avatar, main character of my game, took me about 4 hours to color after i scanned in an inked version of the rough pencil drawing i did thats floating somewhere in the art & graphics section somewhere, my drawing skills with a mouse i found out are sub-par, im gonna have to draw his face and scan it in so it doesnt look like a kindergarten crayon face lol.

this is my first digital coloring of a drawing, basicly what i did quite simply is this.

1) draw a pic, inked it, threw in subtle shading in key spots with a 20% gray prismacolor marker
2) using the smudge tool i used the spots where the prisma was and blended the shading to my liking, then adjusted the image levels to darken, re-smudge, rinse repeat until it looks right.
3) made an individual layer per color, set those layer's mode to multply, basily overlay colors on top of the shaded b&w pic, used 50% opacity with 35% flow on a brush tool, darkened areas that needed more color. get it to where you like it, clean up the edges.
4)toss up another layer for the highlights, i found that the layer mode "overlay" with a 12% opacity and 12% flow looked best in my case, clean it up and put on the finishing touches.

 

[xinrua]

Looks preaty good...only he has way to many fingers...armor looks pale and not bright..it sorta("Just a tiny, smudge, bit, pinch, and a little...lets just say so small you can hardly see that it...") does not blend with the belt...eyes are smallish....rest is good!!

 

[Gulch666]

double posted...

 

[Gulch666]

theres only 5 fingers, theres the top of a scabbard, which hasnt been colored yet,that his hand is resting on(between his thumb and index finger) so it looks like he might have a couple extra.

and as far as the armor, i didnt want it to be too shiny, i wanted it to look a tad tarnished, you know, from actually using it

 

[xinrua]

kk...

but ya fix the eyes a bit..then tada!

 

[Gulch666]

yeah im gonna redo the whole face, the eye(yeah theres only 1) is too small and the nose and mouth are just plain retarded imo

 

[CherryWolf]

Err' gonna bring the fingers up, I counted them, is it 6 fingers?
Also, the chest plate is... Pale... And the arms are more 'metally'.

Teehee, everything else is good,

 

[Gulch666]

yeah i colored my concept drawing of that character, the actual drawing was like a 20-30 minute scratch, i figured what better to learn to digitally color on than a sketch , i probably wont actually end up using that one but i did learn some good do's and donts while working on it. seeing if i can get some critique on my coloring method.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m244 ... 6/hand.png[/img]

5 fingers, for the record.

Updated with full size image at the top

 

[Mascarpone]

i like it until u get to the face and hair then it just falls apart... put some more love into that face there man. Its just so tragically .... well poor.

 

[Gulch666]

oh, i know the face is trash, and i was going to go back and put some more depth into the hair with highlighting, since its so dark, its why i took off the face layer in the full size images, i dont want it to distract too much from what im actually wanting c&c on.

but fact is, im not going to use this picture for anything, i was just seeing how easy/hard it was going to be for me to digital color my drawings, this was an experimentive(<--not a word) learning process, next one should come out better, and probably faster than the first, will be a lot less going back to do things cause i did hem in the wrong order etc