This is a piece that I started years ago. A good friend posed for it, and I started the work with pencil and ebony on green posterboard. Scanned it into my computer in more recent times and attacked it with color, via wacom tablet and custom brushes in photoshop. I like where it’s going, and it’s interesting to view this next to more current work. There are differences in style, but there are certainly similarities.
I like where this is going, too.
Ah, the artwork of ages!
I was going to have a hard time ripping on you because I actually like your sketches! Never thought you would hear that form me? You controlled the values and I like the compositions. The make-up mirror reminds me alot of the old style you were working on in college… I always thought it just needed depth, still think the same, but the overall piece is great! I will just say that you should push where the eye goes a little further. Then again, it might not come accross on the monitor like it should.
Technical tip of the day: JPEGs started for archiving B/W photography. They become very small if you go to greyscale before making the JPEG. The b/w sketches still came across fast for me, but I can’t torture some of my friends with your link until you get the file size down… and it won’t drop the detail that much as most aren’t going to print these out poster size. Control the view better!
The aquarium job… you can do better… much better. Clean but I will rip you a new one if you said this was your top quality of work these days!
L8r, C