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[Rose]

Nobody was willing to give me a redline, then?

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[EagleV]

I tried to do a bit of skull-first face-drawing, but I'm only a dabbling painter. I hope you get the idea.

First, the skull. The basic shape should roughly follow the red outline (this is a good way for the rest of the body as well - start with the skeleton). Add skin, basic features, hair and details. If I could draw a bit better, you would see it gives you the right proportions. The red cross indicates the horizontal and vertical middle line, very usefull for adding symmetric elements, and it also gives you a 3d-ish shape to work with.

Also, crappy jpg compression, sorry.

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[Acanthus117]

Hey, what's the kind of image I should save my pics on? is it .bmp?

[EagleV]

If I think of it before saving, I mostly use png. I've always heard it takes less place than bmp, never tested it myself though.

[Red Fortune]

It's finished enough to go into my comic, but still not sure.... What do you think?



EDIT: This is how I draw guidelines... If you can distinguish them.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

i think you draw your noses too long. try to start with a biger circle for the cranium and you'll get a shorter nose and overal a shorter face. i'll try to illustrate later, now i gotta take my gf to school

[Red Fortune]

If I draw the cranium any bigger they either look like complete brainiacs or (if I widen the chin to suit) fat thugs.

[Rose]

File-> save as

please use it.

[lordnincompoop]

Move the cranium down, just a little. Keep the face and a bit of the forehead the same.

Also: Wooo! Guild Wars!

[Soadreqm]

Hey, what's the kind of image I should save my pics on? is it .bmp?

No, never use .bmp. They're completely uncompressed, and take preposterous amounts of space.
.png is lossless compression. Like .bmp, but better in every way. Pretty good in most cases.
.gif only supports 255 colors, but works just great if you don't need more. For pixel art and such. Plus, you can do animations in it.
.jpg is sometimes okay for large images. The Gimp lets you set the image quality with a slider, and preview the compressed image before saving. I expect others do as well.

[lordnincompoop]

Here's that redline (or rather greenline, as there was too much red and blue to make the two visible).

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The light green is where I suggest you make the changes, while the dark green is just me guessing the orientation of your head there.

[alway]

Be sure you don't use jpg for anything important (or at the very least, don't use MS Paint's jpg save). They have a tendancy of doing this:

Spoiler: JPG compression artifacts after about 5 saves and loads (click to show/hide)

[Askot Bokbondeler]

for lossless bitmaps png is the best, but can get pretty big if you have many colors, for example, if you save a photograph or a previously compressed jpg as a png, or a picture like the ones red fortune is posting. It'd be too big to post on the internets, but it would be a good idea to keep one in your computer for later edits.
for simple pictures like sprites, or images made in mspaint, png is the best format, they get quite small keeping a high quality.

[Sensei]

Also, JPG and BMP don't have alpha support. Not that people are using alphas here.

Anyway, that head still looks a tad on the tall side.

[SiN.Daeus]

now i gotta take my gf to school

Probably just me, but that sounds dodgy.