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Self Portrait

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Drew up a stylized self portrait for funsies.

(Update: Resized Image)

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Awesome work! Great contrast between the red and blue. Awesome work with the shading. I would be pleased to see the reference.



this is very good,man.The colors.The Everything.ITS PERFECT D;

Looks great man. You've got some excellent contrast coming through on this and really great, crisp shading. I especially like the way you've changed up shading techniques and color use between the face and the hands, it adds some really good dimension as well as shows an understanding of the differences between skin and the way light interacts with skin on different parts of the body. That being said you could definitely refine that hand a bit more, right now its largely featureless, especially in the middle, and lose its form a bit as it meets the cuff of the jacket, it stands out much more because of how close it is to the detail on the face. The jacket is also very well realized - and more than just being very well shaded with the folds - it gives a great amount of dark/light contrast with the hand and face which also works great with the gradation on the red background.
The biggest issue with this drawing though is one that I didn't even notice until the end of this review: you made the image to large. When viewed in full size there are definitely very noticeable cracks in the armor, you lose a bit of the crispness of the jackets edge against the red, some of the highlights lose a bit of there umph (super technical term there) but that can be fixed by just re-sizing the dimensions and uploading that in place of this one. Choosing the right size, or distance to view art from is a huge part of the process that is often overlooked, especially with digital. Case in point here, it does a disservice to have the larger size available.
Even so, awesome job on this, hope this helped in some capacity, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing more from you.

ScaredyDave responds:

Very great advice! I often forget to resize the image to one that makes the cracks go away. I usually work in too large a file size and forget to look at it in full size when its all complete! Thanks so much for the very informative critique! I will implement these suggestions soon! (I can at least do the size tonight though!)

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Feb 26, 2015
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