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Ok. Keric? Interesting choice. I hope you make an image of a video game with your choice of items sometime. I’ve seen enough of your work that I think you could make an amazing one.
Of this particular picture pair, Maaz’ mercenary makes it. Of course, an armored or cybernetic spidery alien mercenary warrior will always be cooler than a video game–and you can quote me on that.
1. I’m still figuring out sleeves.
2. more than one layer in for backgrounds, eh?
3. I can’t seem to figure out how to make hands hold onto things convincingly.
4. File naming scheme
5. The werewolf form’s fur is weird because the item I used for it was some kind of hide wrapping.For #4, be specific. The efforts you’ve shown so far tell me we’d like you around long enough to run out of generic names. Use the character’s name when possible. KS, then KSInWereForm, etc.
#2, YES. If you want to save time, check out the custom backgrounds and borrow till you’ve had practice with them.
All of your odd numbers could involve masking practice and experimentation. Keene’s sleeves have a good start; just mask something onto a transparent forearm (alpha to 0% on each color) and build a cuff out of something like neckwear. Hands holding something are usually best done in multiple masked pieces. –As for the fur, you might even mask parts of a furry companion onto a few appropriate shapes. Pretty soon people will be saying ‘who was that masking man?’Well, I must say, if any question could work more like a black hole than ‘why,’ I don’t know what it is!
For this kind of a picture, I hesitate to give advice–the human mind might only see something like TanCred representationally.
If that’s what you’re going for, I might recommend that you PM Snail-Male. Otherwise, I’d have made the star’s rings brighter–bright yellow, white, etc.–hey, is he nourished by answers? And do people remember them after he feeds?
Wow. Thanx.
I’ve gotten a lot of enjoyment from watching who jumps on my thread.As to Rod, that took a lot of time and startovers, so I’m not sure how long. His facial shape, wrinkle patterns, and eyebrows were non-standard, so I had to doctor them a lot. In the end, I wound up keeping too many reference photos available–I think I gave him older wrinkles and eyebrows and younger coloring. Ah, well, I have trouble with any subject matter I don’t understand as well. Human faces are TOUGH.
Oh, and I’m shipping you something ETPS.
