Is this any good?

[Ultimate88]

I just got photoshop, im practicing some art b4 I go to college since im gonna study Graphic Design. Im not really that good but meh. This is a pic of the main character of a series a friend and I are making, Ultimate88 (without his mage hat lol). This is my first photoshop pic btw

[Pegosho]

It's cute, i know it's difficult drawing with a mouse but practice those lines cuz they are kind shaky and blurry. If you keep practicing, you'll see that you are gonna start making thinner lines instead of huge ones, and maybe, you might stop using lines and concentrate in colors and shape. But that takes time.

For now, keep practicing your lines and experiment with colors. Good luck!

[Ultimate88]

At 5/27/09 04:59 PM, Pegosho wrote: It's cute, i know it's difficult drawing with a mouse but practice those lines cuz they are kind shaky and blurry. If you keep practicing, you'll see that you are gonna start making thinner lines instead of huge ones, and maybe, you might stop using lines and concentrate in colors and shape. But that takes time.

For now, keep practicing your lines and experiment with colors. Good luck!

hey thanks ^^ and no its not mouse drawn what I did to make this was make a sketch of it, scan it, and then use photoshop to color it. however ill take that tip of the line thingy. Thanks again

[zombiemasher]

I like it, it reminds me of sasuke from naruto....better then anything i've made!

[Ultimate88]

At 5/27/09 07:13 PM, zombiemasher wrote: I like it, it reminds me of sasuke from naruto....better then anything i've made!

It's probably the scarf or hair that makes him look like Sasuke lol. Thanks for the response

[KillerGoose]

All I can say is keep practicing...

[Ultimate88]

At 5/27/09 07:28 PM, KillerGoose wrote: All I can say is keep practicing...

may you say what you find wrong with the pic? I need details so I can practice harder on something specific

[PlutoCow]

At 5/27/09 07:32 PM, Ultimate88 wrote:
may you say what you find wrong with the pic? I need details so I can practice harder on something specific

Well, your outlines are fuzzy along the edges and they look shaky, as someone already mentioned. If you're going to have a dark outline like that, you don't want your brush's hardness on 0%, which it looks like it's at right now. You can adjust this by going to the brush pull down menu, the place where you can resize your brush/choose your brush, whatever. It will be under hardness.

Another problem I see is that your shadows were drawn with a very thin brush. This makes it easy to see the color that you have underneath and makes the picture look kind of sloppy, especially on that top left corner of the collar. This is easily fixed by using a larger brush. Along with this is where you've mostly filled in areas but left small cracks where you didn't completely cover the area you were filling in. It might help to have your outline as a separate layer on the top. Then you won't have to worry about drawing over the lines, and mistakes in filling in color are easier to fix.

And finally, the hair... I think you were trying to show individual strands, with the small lines. However, this doesn't ever really work well, especially when the lines are going all over the place like yours are. I would suggest again using a larger brush. Color your hair in sections, maybe have a light shadow giving definition to the sections, but don't go too overboard. Also, the highlights in hair don't normally go around the head like a huge halo. They generally follow the part, going in bars towards the back of the head. And they don't necessarily have to be bright white, either. If you have some of the blue running through, it might help to make it look more natural.

Oh, and with the bottom of the picture, I think that you should crop your picture so that you can't see where the drawing ends so that you don't have half a person floating in space.

Erm. Yes. I hope this helps. Good luck with your Photoshop endeavors.

[Ultimate88]

Thanks, this helps alot. Sadly, I dont have much skill in drawing but hopefully Ill develop those skills when I take drawing lessons (yes I never took lessons).

[Zyphonee]

The effort is extremely noticeable, extremely in the coloring, keep at it, I think it's great!

[Ultimate88]

At 5/27/09 09:02 PM, Zyphonee wrote: The effort is extremely noticeable, extremely in the coloring, keep at it, I think it's great!

thank you ^.^