nice! the overall figure looks a bit flat, but i really like the eyes and the mouth - very realistic. It looks a bit like a foto with soem painting-filter applied on it, very realistic.

I like your style, keep on!

keep on working.
+6

Askhari, if it "looks a bit like a foto with soem painting-filter applied on it:, it's not exactly called "realistic".

Seriously, though, did you use any photographic reference, and if yes, how?

its good !

but its looks like a photo reworked/painted using smudge tool.

a tool is still a tool!

+3

here is the progress n reference files i used.

thx for all the replies mate

http://sawamura.neorack.com/gallery/sawamura2d11_making.jpg
click the link above to see the image. its 86kb only.

filters i used is : sharpen n gausian blur.
yes i use smudge n brush a lot. n masking for colour correction.

I think that back drop looks REAL the painting is fantastic
9+

Good that you showed in your making of which parts of your pic are taken from photos: this is very honest and I really apreciate such behaviour!

To have finally all those photoparts mentioned:
http://de.geocities.com/heulsuse28/sawamura2d11.jpg



You should spend more work to overpaint this next time.

With respect

- Huntress

So, well, you did paint over a photo... *sigh*

helow everybody
thx for the replies. hahhaha it seems the background got more attention from u guys ^^
i use the photo as reference for the colours. n repeating the same the same pattern for the whole image.
well, this kind of painting is new to me that is to collect as many references as possible. well. i love the results tho

btw, here is the back shot 96kb. quite near to the original rez of the painting. sorry i cant upload the full size image cos i always failed to upload big files
the internet connections here is pretty ugly.

http://sawamura.neorack.com/gallery/sawamura2d11_back.jpg

i dont paint too much detail on the back cos i planned to blur it in the end.
another thing is because i'd spend too long painting something with my mouse that is not the main part of this image.
thx for the comments again

The colors is precisely where you should avoid looking at the photos. Use colors as they are in your eye, not on a photograph. Trust and develop your vision, not a camera.

thx arenhaus.
hmm.... the thing is that ... i cannot see mountains here...
i'll always try to improve guys. thx i apreciated any other inputs to help me make a better art next time