A sketch

[Medley]

A lady friend of mine is having a birthday next week, and I plan to give her a matted and frame version of this sketch. I thought I'd post it here to get your comments:



- Joe U.

[ElectrifieD]

I suppose this is her.
It's nice but maybe it would be better with some background.Maybe someting like a gradient, i don't know but it looks kinda floating.

[Medley]

Yep, agreed. The problem I have with that (at least right now) is that a lot of that sketch is done with layers set at a low opacity. Changing the background also changes some of the hues within the sketch itself.

It's easy enough to fix, I just haven't taken the time as yet.

-Joe U.

[Isick]

I would work on defining the facial features a little more, particularly the nose and brow.

It is hard to say exactly what should be done as we don't know what she looks like in real life.

[Medley]

You were right Isick. Athough there are reasons I didn't give the nose more definition, giving it SOME definition was necessary. I gave it some subtle help here with the dodge and burn tools, and fixed the background thing ElectrifieD mentioned:



Comments?

- Joe U.

[ElectrifieD]

I think it's much better , i like it .There's a little pixelation on her shoulder

[Excruciating]

Well.. I deffinetly like the first one better then.
Her should and hair looks a lot better on that one.
I think you should remove the grey smudges around her hair a bit. was this reference picture -> Wacom Sketchdrawing or Picture -> filters -> Sketch ?

[tombothetominator]

my only real crit (other than the boring backgroud) is the shoulder/arm area. For such a large portion of the picture it just sits there being a boring hunk of meat. Not sure how to fix it though... maybe something frilly and girly and vectorish as a design overlay?..

Also - the blurriness on her chest between the chunks of hear is messing with my eyes something fierce.

All in all though - good stuff.

[Q21]

Yeah her clevage area seems way blurry like tom said.
And im personally not big on that background...i was thinking maybe just 2 or 3 black/white flowers or somthing placed around the image..just a thought.