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dead · member Member # Joined: 18 Feb 2001 Posts: 489

Hi, so this is my last three days spent. It's me and my 2 best pals, trying to look tough. Photo refs used (as if you couldn't tell.) Hey, if anybody knows what the cosack emblem really looks like, i'd like to know. btw, i realize that there is 3 differant light sources. What looks fucked up?

Light · Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 7:41 pm

Great work.

Hmm.. you might want to work on the composition some.

Remove some of the white space from the left and the top would help.

Also, you might want to arrange the pictures closer togethor or add a background.

it would help if you could overlap some of the forms.. even a small one. (might help)

as it would show relation

Light · Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 7:44 pm

speaking on the light sources.. the guy on the far left (you?) looks most out of place with the high key lighting.

You should probably try to neuatralize all three of the faces to a local intensity and then bring out the lighting on all of them at the same.

.. You dont have to use all the same skin tones.. but these are obviously 2-3 different palettes being used with no integration or attempt at integration.

dead · member Member # Joined: 18 Feb 2001 Posts: 489

actually, they're only all together in one image because the server im using only allows for one image. they're intended to be with eachother but in there own frame, so to speak. thanks though.

yeah, like i said, there are 3 differant light sources. they're not suposed to be the same. sorry i had to put them all together. ill put some lines in.

[ May 07, 2002: Message edited by: theo ]

Ian Jones · Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 8:28 pm

Cool, they are really neat. Nice rendering, maybe increase the contrast a touch, expecially there torso's... those particular areas just struck me as being a touch flat. This may be affected by the white background though, so try it on a mid grey a black for some comparisons. Because you have used a white background, it sort of seperates the images into two values. White and a mid value for the actual portraits (which has the appearance of flattening). Do you see what I mean?

The colours are great, skin tones are interesting and add character. Good job!

silber · Posted: Tue May 07, 2002 11:51 pm

Exactly the same thoughts as Ian Jones here

[ May 08, 2002: Message edited by: silber ]

dead · member Member # Joined: 18 Feb 2001 Posts: 489

thanks ian, silber. i'll experiment.

Sedone · Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 7:55 am

Haha, these are great! You guys should start a League of Bumbling Criminal Masterminds.