Welcome to Gaia! ::

So I took a very, very long break from Gaia. I am so lost! crying
Anyway, I am glad to see I am still a member, so here are a few recent things.


01. I have never really done an all out portrait in Photoshop, much less practiced coloring skin with my tablet. confused This was an experiment, & final project for Studio Art. Note: Someone mentioned that the blush looked too severe, though I intended it to look that way. Just thought I'd throw that in there...


02. My very first vector, of a friend of mine. Doing this in Photoshop was very tedious. Egh.

More watercolors & what not some other time!
Sheesh, my member profile in the Art f** post is soooo outdated. Talking about 3 years ago.

I like the first one! I like the effect of computer colors over pencil shading. The only thing that bothers me is that her lips aren't shaded or anything and look really flat compared to the rest of the picture. And I think her cheek/chin needs to come out more on the viewer's left side.

The expression in the second one is great.

I kind of disagree with the above comments.

I love the shading difference between the hair and the face. I love how the hair is flat and cartoony, whereas the face is very realistically shaded. It looks like you've done that intentionally, and it was meant as your style.
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I do agree, though, that the lips aren't quite working. Since they're part of the face, I think you should have gone ahead and shaded them in pencil, too. To give the whole face that soft look.

edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention -- what's up with her shoulders? They've got no shape to them, and it looks kind of like her neck is molding into them. .____. The shoulders definitely need some fixing, methinks.

As for the second one, I don't really have any comments.
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I like the first one, the different textures and colors give it a nice contrast.

BTW: Cameron Diaz?

Second one is good too, but I am a big fan of shadings.