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Oh well. Photobucket is on maintenance, i'll use facebook links.
Heres my recent work(my first vector):
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._3400411_n.jpg
Original Picture(my sister):
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._6461330_n.jpg
And yeah, I changed the mouth, I cant really do the teeth. :)) idk how I will do the nose, and when I put shadows on the face, it looks like she's 50 years older, I need tips, especially on the NOSE, HAIR, EYES, SHADOWS.
you should talk to... nathan enns i think...
Yeah. Im waiting for him to reply here. :bd
it looks like you just took that pic
and drew over it lol
yes i did. Haha. Thats the easiest way i learned from tuts.
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cool but where is her other eye? a cyclops?
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Still unfinished, other eyes looks like shit, i got lazy to do the other.
Update. Progress
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._4052802_n.jpg
Still not finished. Still looks like shit. Hope Pet looks at this. :D
The biggest thing I can say is, work on keeping your lines smooth, right now a lot of them are looking rough.
As for individual portions:
Eyes - the shape of the eye is more complex shape then a football, and on women, it is best to draw them more open than you have them. Even though the eyes in the picture are partially closed, making it a little bigger will emphasize them.
Face shape - rather than use 2 tones to define the chin and cheeks, use a subtle gradient on the neck, darker near the top, then getting lighter towards the bottom, and do the same for the face, making it darker at the line were the hair is over the face.
lips - Look at a pairs of lips, and pay attention to the curves. They are subtle, but powerful.
Hair - I am not quite sure how to explain, but it should look more like strokes that come to a point, and the varying width depends on what style you want it to look like.
I hope this helps. I will try to make some tutorials on how to vector different parts of the human face.
I don't know if digital painting is regarded as vectoring, tell me if it is. I use to do the pen tool approach to things but after a while I found it very boring since the process usually takes such a long time and requires a lot of free time which I don't have.
Unless your trying to do something very simplistic and clip-art styled I strongly suggest using a drawing pad. It will help you achieve your desired result quicker and I know some links to some great tutorials that helped me when I started out.
I'm not saying all pen-tooled vectors are bad, just achieving a really nice result sometimes requires thousands of layers where as digital painting usually requires one.
