First of all, this is my first one working with a black background so that was kind of fun. :] It's also kind of cell shaded so it was good to get some practice in with placing hard shadows. I'd like to do another one like this pretty soon here. Something I need to be careful of is to stay away from outlines. I love the look of outlines but they are also something of a crutch and are preventing me from learning to refine my edges in other ways.
This pic is mostly focusing on the face and I'm thinking that I'll probably be doing bust portraitists like this for the first bit. In my last entry I posted a speed paint of two characters and a background. While that one was meant to be unfinished, it ended up being much less finished then I thought it would be. After I had done it I didn't think it was too bad because the faces where looking closer to finished and where more what I had in mind. My problem was in the bodies and that speed paint made it really obvious that there are still may things I have to work on when it comes to drawing and especially painting bodies.
At the moment I want to focus mostly on my digi-painting techniques which have also become obvious areas for improvement. So for the next while here I think I'm going to stick with just bust portraits since that it something I'm already familiar with. :]
Many more speed paints to come!
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