Paintover of photograph of Kelly Hu. Suppose it would work for fighter-rogue, other possibilities using chain shirt, rapier and small shield. Composite photos used also in background, rapier, shield, and chainmail portions of shirt.
Bjdnwn: I'm no sensitive artist, not really an artist at all, just looking for pointers. Thanks for the clarification. Think I'll have to revisit with "fresh eyes". You start seeing it the way you want it after a while.
ADK: Kelly's Asian--Chinese, Hawaiiian, and English ancestry, I think--just doesn't look it here. not just because I hazeled up her eyes. Sorry if it doesn't work for Kunoichi. Some good 'uns in the works for you, though; permission to use in advance. ;)
Posted by bjdnwn at 2007-03-29 13:36:09 Voted 9.50 on 03/28/07
Of course. Don't take my criticism the wrong way. As I said, I like your work.
The transition in my view makes it look like the fabric is on top of the chain sections (not the other way round).
Wha?.. My post didn't show? Just a word to say that I like this portrait! The effects are well done and it doesn't look like a photograph. Well done!
ADK _________________________ ADK
Kunoichi 0 French: Link Kunoichi 1 French: Link Kunoichi 1 English: Link Kunoichi 2 French: Link Kunoichi 2 English: Link
Thanks for the feedback. I'm even less of a fashion designer than an artist, but on shirt I was aiming for sort of a purple fabric (silk, maybe, but wasn't ambitious enough to paint folds) with chain sections on top (tailing away to a bit of skirt over the--uh--posterior (you can see it in the bottm corners) and metal tied-in plates, kind of like bracers, bearing engraved designs. The phrase "charm bracers" actually came to mind when I was fiddling with them. Metal effect on plates didn't come off quite right, but I thought I did okay conveying the "layering" of chain over fabric. No?
Posted by bjdnwn at 2007-03-28 17:12:45 Voted 9.50 on 03/28/07
I like it, also the colors. Transitions between colorful areas and mail shirt could use a little more work though.
By the way, you asked about foreground in portraits. I think it's okay as long as it's fitting and doesn't take too much space. Might make it difficult to recognize anything in the smaller versions. Most important in my opinion is that a picture can actually be used as a portrait (must be fitting for possible PCs) and that the face is recognizable in smaller versions. Fortunately, your portraits achieve that in a good way - which is why I have voted on all of them. :)
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