[marky]

<wipes forehead .. OK after my humiliation I thought I would try again!

This time I used a visual reference and did a lot more painting work on it for the tones. I'm still trying to get this to work one way or another!



[ July 13, 2001: Message edited by: marky ]

[dr . bang]

Shit, is this done by the same person as the last post? Wow, good progress dude!

[Viridae]

geezus mind explaining how you did that?? That is just great and as he said great progress. You have given it a lot more depth

[RoadMaster]

just a little note, but I think at the part where the drapes compact, the pattern should bend more, it's only crunching, not rotating in any way. Otherwise it's very nice.

[Kazz]

would look better if you rid the texture filter thingie

-Kazz



[ July 13, 2001: Message edited by: Kazz ]

[MoleculeMan]

I agree, its looking really good. I think that it would help if you would shade it some more. There are some parts where it would look more realistic by being a little darker in the folds. Like it appears there is fabric that holds the drapes so they fold and all, but its not dark enough to tell at points to tell its completely different parts. If thats NOT the case, i am an ass an i apologize. Also, it seems like your using a texturizer thingie from photoshop to make it look like cloth, but it doesnt appear to bend with the cloth. It almost seems like you are texturizing after you get the picture all folded. If you can't get the texture to bend i would just scrap using it and go flatter heh. I dunno.

[marky]

Thankyou for the constructive criticism!

Viridae - Airbrushing, lighting effects, the displace filter and liquify.

Kazz - no if you take the texture out completely it looks like plastic or something that doesn't work! Does anyone know where I can get other bump map textures other than the ones supplied with PS - I know this "canvas" one has been seen before perhaps too many times.

Molecule -Yeah I agree with what you are saying about the form of the texturiser - I really didn't do enough work on it to get the texture to displace around the forms - I was thinking that too -Im only using Photoshop for this one so I'm stuck with the liquify plug-in or the displacement map filter and both are a pain in the arse to use. Liquify especially - Christ that dialogue box! Chris Cox at Adobe is responsable for it hope they sort it for 6.5. I'm a bad workman and I'm happy to be blaming my tools! I admit I kind of lost patience - I'll try again!

The shading is more or less exactly the same as my reference. The light on the subject is quite "flat" and the contrast quite heavy - I think in my rendition I made the forms more rounded if anything. I don't have a wacom and airbrushed with the mouse - maybe thats why its a little crude. Anyway don't want it to be too "perfect" or it would look like a 3D software job.

Road Master - Yeah your right but I've not got a problem with it in that area- see my note above

I realise this should really be in "work in progress" oh well

[noco]

Behind this drapes, who lives..?

So gorgeous, very nice texture..