Hey, I draw. Really.

Lalilulelo

Self Portrait.
Keep your eyes on this space.


update:

tightened up the cloak, and I've been tooling around with these 1up mushrooms but I took 'em off at first because they were, I think, distracting. but I really like them, and I like putting a funny spin on self-portraits I do. Cuz I'm not a serious person.


Tell me what you t'ink.

2nd update. some minor tweaking. thanks shiboe about the eyes.


Sanctuary #1 cover redo. A local guy is forking over serious dough to get the book printed and distributed nationally because he likes it a lot. He's pretty awesome. But we had to go back and edit out the curse words and I had to make a new, LOUD AS FUCK cover to draw attention since it's a new book scraping along. Those were his conditions and he sympathized with us about knowing that loud as fuck covers aren't the prettiest thing, but it's sadly necessary to attract readers... Okay so here.

mully

what program was this done in? its absolutely gorgeous. the lighting.. yeeee. i am thoroughly impressed.

Lalilulelo

just photoshop mayne.

CheerfulBear

Where are the blue highlights?

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

Yeah, that's gorgeous, and not a bad looking bloke either!

Is that a finished piece or are you planning on polishing it up any?

Lalilulelo

CheerfulBear wrote: »

Where are the blue highlights?

they're right up your ass! I mean, alley!:P

@Ellioto-I'm pretty sure I'm gon' leave it here, I got deadlines and shit to deal with, this is for the Senior Show (don't ever graduate college it's a pain in the ass), it's past due, although no one else turned theirs in... so, decided to get this out of the way tonight. almost done with Issue 2 of Sanctuary.

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

Even as-is I dig it

Lalilulelo

ALLLLRIGHT.

Kewop Decam

You're A LOT better than I remember for a long while back.

Good stuff

That right eye (your actual right eye) though... feels like it can move in it's own directions without affecting the left eye.

Xavi

Fantastic. Cloth really needs polish and/or get finished though, so finish it! At least make the wrapping around the edges a bit more smooth so the cloth fits better within the image (Otherwise just crop it)

Great expression as well

Kewop Decam

I don't think and/or feel the cloth needs to be finished for this to be considered a finished piece. Seems to me the main focus is the face and keep everything else rough will bring more attention to it

Xavi

Mmm.. maybe, but consider this. Instead of having ALL the cloth be sketchy, make it detailed when its close to the face and drop the level of detail the more down the image you go.

That, I think, would make it more attractive while still keeping the focus on the face

Scosglen

I like it overall, the face is well done, but honestly the shirt is pretty awful and on the surface it looks like you were clearly rushing to the finish line.

mark

Well done !

Kewop Decam

that ear is... deformed or something.

Lalilulelo

@ scosglen. Honestly I could render it to holy hell (been there) but I don't think it's necessary. I might tighten the graphics up a little bit though. Just for you.

MagicToaster

Jesus, i'd love to see how you do these things!

Lalilulelo

Updated in first post.

Shiboe

Pretty damn slick, I especially like the texturing on everything. I agree on the ear part, the "lil floppy dangle" is usually found lower on the ear and part of the lower connection to the head, but maybe I just haven't seen enough ears. The (viewers) right eye looks a little off to me; the eyelid sagging midway to the point of being semi-angular, and the lower how it hugs the eyeball makes it seem less roundish than it should. Such minor things though and really, I'm not sure if changing them would do much since the whole image has a slight looseness that adds to it.

Overall really cool stuff (and well beyond me) and thanks for sharing! You have a ref pic we could see?

Recoil42

Holy christ, the lighting/shading on this is fantastic.


Remove the 1up's though, I have to agree with your initial instinct, they're really damn distracting.

Lalilulelo

adjusted. that's funny because I showed them the crummier version (of the shrooms, which were even louder) and they really liked it. Ach.
fucking subjective material.

Edman

Great piece. I haven't much to say except I like your use of colors. I'd really like to see your process.

Deans

Do you stipple alot or is that some sort of custom brush?

I think the nose looks a little flattened, not sure what you can do about it though.

Lalilulelo

custom brushes here and there, a little stippling. depends on the range of the brush. sometimes dotting is better, sometimes the textures are up to snuff.

Kewop Decam

the actual iris of your eyes need a little work because they are solid colors which makes them feel flat

Lalilulelo

New shit first post.^
and here. since it's top of the page.

Godfather

Very eye catching, but that's an incredibly painful position for the woman.

Sublimus

Love the self-P. Kev!

Lalilulelo

Godfather wrote: »

Very eye catching, but that's an incredibly painful position for the woman.

:winky: :winky:

WastingPenguins

For God's sake, leave the 1ups! They're brilliant.