Fire dance

[Intrepidmisfortune]

Not done gfx for a while, so kinda rusty
Also happens to be gifted to Distello cause I've been inactive and neglecting his "needs"
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[Distello]

Which personality is this from? Clive? Steve? .... Brenda?


Na kidding, thanks man, looks great!

[Intrepidmisfortune]

It's from juju, the magical dancing ape personality

[Annokill]

Dont like it.

But remember kids,

I aint no damn hater yo

[Slave]

I rather like the colouring and the atmosphere on this one, angel is pretty fun too.

My suggestion is to toss the topaz layer. I have never been one for "cheating" the system like this, but this one in this case is far too strong and your getting that crinkly wave effect that makes it an obvious topaz.

If your looking for a topaz touch but without using topaz and frickin it up...lemme tell you ^^

get the piece on full layer then go to filter/other/high pass ( the default is fine, think its 20) then hit okay. then with the layer play with it a bit, usually I find with anime softlight on like 10-30 works nice, though usually with a rl focal I tend to put it on vivid light then put it down under 15 or so.

Then make it a new layer again with the full image on it, take the blur and sharpen tool and lightly dust areas with low opacity on the tools. Don't forget to take into mind the farther away from your focal the more blurish things get, the closer also tends to have a mix of blur and sharpen, but be sure to pay good attention to the face. My personal face is to sharpen the eyes and lips, sometimes the nose, then lightly blur the cheeks and chin in the motion of the shadows, never just random swirls, always follow the path of the focals lighting.

Doing it this way is far more accurate and detailed, you don't loose any of your original work and it tends to give off a more pro look to it.

[Intrepidmisfortune]

Thanks Slave
I really love it when you critique work

[Slave]

Thanks Slave
I really love it when you critique work

Thanks Int, happy it's appreciated

Keep up with the colours