[Snakebyte]

Iv done more work to the background but I�m still unsure how make her look as if she was NOT pasted onto the background�. Any thoughts?

Again, her head is not finished. She is to have darker skin (Tan) and her expression needs to change. Ultimately, she is supposed to be just a step down from a Paladin. I just wish that my friend mentioned that BEFORE I started�

[ZenDrag0n]

Don't make the background so blurry. It looks very unreal. I am near sighted, and even when I focus on an object the background and foregrounds objects don't become horribly blurred. That only happens in bad photographs.

The chick/horse is cool. Mmmmm cleavage on armor, although i must say as apealing as it may be, doesn't it seem a little odd to expose one's heart, yet armor everything else? (yeah i'm one of those fuckers that watches a movie when a car get's dinged by a shopping cart, and when it explodes, instead of going COOL i go, bullllshit)

[Eric Pommer]

I have to agree about the armour. Looks pretty, but it's providing a 'bullseye' for the enemy.

I know you said the head isn't finished, but when you go to work on it you're going to need to modify the left edge fairly significantly. Right now the mouth and chin are turned at a much sharper angle than the eye and nose. You could fix this by either thickening the chin on the left side or shrinking the left eye portion.

I think the background looks fine, but you need to get rid of the 'glow' around the figure. That's the main thing keeping it from blending in as far as I can see.



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[nightmare]

yeah the glow is throwing off the whole thing. i also feel that the colors on her and the horse, even if u darken the skin, are very light and somewhat washed out. perhaps make them more saturated? or add a more dynamic lighting scheme... i dunno... also, the metal parts of her armor could stand to have a sharper shine, cuz right now its about as shiny as her skin.
great job! i wish i could draw armor as well as u

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[Darkmoon]

Where is the red feather?

-Lisa

[Snakebyte]

I think this should stop an arrow and give her an emblem that will tie in vary well with her last name.

This image has been �Processed� meaning, if I were to have finished her head this is what I would have done to the image. It may not look all that different from the one above but it is.

Thanks for all the input, it�s been quite helpful. A little more wouldn�t hurt though

[Snakebyte]

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Originally posted by ZenDrag0n:
Mmmmm cleavage on armor, although i must say as apealing as it may be, doesn't it seem a little odd to expose one's heart, yet armor everything else?

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Funny, I never really noticed that before�..

As for the blurring, what I may do is blur the background (black trees, and further) and sharpen the foreground instead and kill the glow around her.

Her head will likely change, not sure though. I used my Rayna Brightmoon pic as the reference and now they look too similar.

[MunkY c mUnkY Du]

hi .... great pic.... although i have to say i prefered the first pic when you could see her cleavage... and for the record im not a big perve it just suited the pic and i thought it was well drawn .... the only thing that i thought was out of place was the head, to me it looked more "cartoonie" than the rest of the picture though i understand it not yet complete.. so feel free to slap me.... again im NOT a PERVERT.... good job ... cannie wait to see more stuff...

[This message has been edited by MunkY c mUnkY Du (edited February 11, 2001).]

[CrakBEENie]

i say go ahead and let her show her cleavage..its a character, if she is bad ass enough to not worry about exposing herself to fatal wounds, so be it...batman wears his underwear on the outside, but nobody talks trash to him about it cuz they'd get bashed...let her flaunt it

[n8]

i actually quite like the background..??...the bluriness emphasises the focus on the chik and horse...and i love he detail on the horse....verry nice
cheers