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Axl · Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 9:33 am

Well more like American McGee's Alice.
Haven't been very inspired of late but I sat down and drew this out a couple of nights ago straight into PS, something that I don't do very often.
Comments and crits always welcome.
Thanks.

and a close-up

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Awetopsy · Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 10:04 am

um.. isnt the blood supposed to drip downwards? otherwise I kinda like it.. its coming along nicely..

mellowsmoothe · Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 10:04 am

nice pict., and the hair is great. one thing that came to mind as soon as i saw it was that the blood drops on her face are not quite correct. if she has drops on her face then so be it, but if they are smeared then the whole drop would need to be smeared. or if your trying to portray them as dripping down her face then i woul have the more bulbus part of the drop on the lower end of the dripping line, since it is the heavier part. one other thing is that her nose seems a little too thin for her face. but really, i do think that this is a good pict. just needs some touch ups. i look forward to more picts by you. good luck!

mellowsmoothe · Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 10:06 am

her eyes are pretty fresh bye the way...

roundeye · Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 10:35 am

those eyes are beautiful! nice skin tones too. the mouth seems to wide, and give the face a wierd expression. like shes gonna cry or something.

Axl · Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 12:01 pm

Thanks for your comments, much appreciated.
I'm not quite sure what happened with the blood splatter, that'll be corrected. And I see what you mean Bjorn about the hand, thanks.

sacrelicious · Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 1:55 pm

Axl, I really like the smooth, almost clay-like finish your pieces have. Do you use the airbrush, or a paintbrush/airbrush combo, or strictly paintbrush?

DiXter · Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 3:32 pm

Very cool..
I like her intense eyes and the smooth coloring.

Fix the blod spots and post it.. .

Tinusch · Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 4:42 pm

Looks to me like the blood spattered up at her. I think it looks about right.

geoman2k · Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 4:47 pm

ym only gripe (beside the upside-down blood), is that her chin is a little too thick... i think it should be less wide and a little more pointy with then chin. also, it looks a little 2d- some shading will fix that easily
other than that, very cool. nice hair!

EviLToYLeT · Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 6:45 pm

*nod* What tinusch said. But, your blood is not realistic at all..

What i mean by this is how it has been applied to her face. First, you must understand that when a limb gets severed, numerous veins, arteries, etc. get severed. Now, the heart is doing its job pumping blood you see, and once these blood carrying vessels are severed, all the blood is going to come out under pressure from a very small opening.

this would result in more of a mist of blood rather than splatters of blood....

... wait no.. i think all that information is completely wrong..musta palyed some video games or something too much.

but honestly, would look better if the drops were smaller and more varied around the face, as i'm assuming when she's killing her face is looking straight down at the hapless victim.

Dthind · member Member # Joined: 12 Dec 2000 Posts: 436

Th blood comments have been made.

I really like this image !!

(*right click, save as wallpaper*)

creepfever · Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 11:04 pm

My crit is , the drawing is great don't get me wrong, the nose and surrounding features are all well shaded , and stick out in a 3-d manner , however the face , particularly the eyes down look flat.. maybe a little more shading on the sides would expose the depth.

Bjorn · Posted: Thu May 17, 2001 11:26 pm

"Don't be afraid...I won't hurt you...much." was the first thing that came to mind.

I like this a lot, especially the eyes and the knife...

My only real problem (aside from the rather strange bloodspatter) is her hand...when I look at it I don't get the feeling her thumb could actually fit around the knife...more like the hand is in front of it. just my opinion.

Make more of this stuff though, it looks good!

Da Bjorn

Axl · Posted: Fri May 18, 2001 9:15 am

Again, thanks to everyone for your comments and crits.
sacrelicious: Thanks. I only ever use the paintbrush, both hard and soft with a setting of normal and 10% opacity.
Tinusch: Good call, although I'm getting more comments about it looking wrong so I'll end up changing it.
EviLToYLeT: I know what your saying about the blood, seen it on one of those murder detective shows.