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Author Topic: Bay12 Photo Share! Let's share photos and cool things.  (Read 1656106 times)

breadbocks

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The blood on the chest and the missing eye look wrong. The  blood on the chest because it looks like someone took a paintbrush with red paint, which makes it seem matte and not reflective like a liquid like blood is. It also looks a little to transparent over the white parts of the shirt. As for the eye, it seems like there's no depth to it, so it looks like it's just an eyepatch.

Just a bit of constructive criticism, since I'd thought you would value it over just a post going "Wow, that looks great!"

But if I'm wrong... Wow, that looks great!
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MaximumZero

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I do value the criticism more, and I thank you for it. Any tips on maybe getting the blood a little more liquidy and adding depth to the eye socket? (I couldn't figure out how to do either.)
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Get some brushes on deviantart.
Grunge or splatter.
I find that setting your blood layer's blend type to burn also helps.

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I don't know a whole lot about image maniping, but the eye would definitely look real-er if you made it not all pure black. A little very dark grey put in the right places would go a long way.
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MaximumZero

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Get some brushes on deviantart.
Grunge or splatter.
I find that setting your blood layer's blend type to burn also helps.

I used splatter brushes from Deviantart, and they were already set to color burn, oddly enough. I shrunk them down a little bit so that they weren't running off of me, but yeah. Maybe I need some more?
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lordnincompoop

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I do value the criticism more, and I thank you for it. Any tips on maybe getting the blood a little more liquidy and adding depth to the eye socket? (I couldn't figure out how to do either.)

This is something that you should take to the Engravers' Guild. That thread's freqeunters have much more experience with digital art.

I'm more of a trad. art person myself, but you can find plenty of tutorials in the internet about digital painting. That will be very useful to you, because there are several instantly noticeable things that are wrong with the picture that prevent me from going "Wow, that's great!" too:

  • Inconsistent source and colour of light. This is the most important, because it detracts from the entire manip. Note how the light is from the left in the background, and the rest is incredibly dark, whilst the light is dim (yet still noticeable), cool instead of warm, and comes from the lower centre in the foreground (that's you). Fix this to fix the blood & eye.
  • Blood is flat. You need to shade it and add specularity, as well as correct the above.
  • Both eyes are off. Eyes almost always have more than one shade and colour to them, and you need to paint it accordingly. Without a consistent source of light (see the first), you'll find it incredibly hard to fix this properly.

Again, if you want the "Wow!" factor, look up tutorials on light source & colour, photo composition, and general digital painting. It'll help you immensely, trust me.

Hope that isn't too harsh. If you're disinterested, fine - but if you want to really improve, take this to heart. Knowing your tools helps too.
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I don't know about adding depth to the eyehole, but adding highlights to the blood would make it seem to reflect a bit of light.
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MaximumZero

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Cool, thanks for the tips, lnc.
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*sigh* Well, I'm still leery about posting personally identifiable info on here, but since this is going to be published anyways....

Spoiler: Milking FAIL (click to show/hide)

Yeah, that's me in the yellow shirt. And my daughter next to me. It was a State Fair type thing, and I was trying to show her how to milk a "cow" in the kids area. My wife took the picture, then when she looked on the camera LCD, she couldn't stop laughing for five minutes. She submitted it to FAILBlog, and they decided to publish it in their upcoming collection of fail pics.  ::)

I think the cow's expression is what really makes the picture.  :o
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LOL! (as in I really did laugh out loud) :D
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LOL! (as in I really did laugh out loud) :D

That got some lolz out of me, too. Thank you for posting that, RedKing.
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*sigh* Well, I'm still leery about posting personally identifiable info on here, but since this is going to be published anyways....

Spoiler: Milking FAIL (click to show/hide)

Yeah, that's me in the yellow shirt. And my daughter next to me. It was a State Fair type thing, and I was trying to show her how to milk a "cow" in the kids area. My wife took the picture, then when she looked on the camera LCD, she couldn't stop laughing for five minutes. She submitted it to FAILBlog, and they decided to publish it in their upcoming collection of fail pics.  ::)

I think the cow's expression is what really makes the picture.  :o
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I confess I found that humorous.
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*sigh* Well, I'm still leery about posting personally identifiable info on here, but since this is going to be published anyways....

Spoiler: Milking FAIL (click to show/hide)

Yeah, that's me in the yellow shirt. And my daughter next to me. It was a State Fair type thing, and I was trying to show her how to milk a "cow" in the kids area. My wife took the picture, then when she looked on the camera LCD, she couldn't stop laughing for five minutes. She submitted it to FAILBlog, and they decided to publish it in their upcoming collection of fail pics.  ::)

I think the cow's expression is what really makes the picture.  :o
you're doin it rite
Shoving your head up the cows ass isn't doing it right. But funny.
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The video in which you could see my hair light up from ginormous flame to come later. I lost most of my eyelashes too >.>
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