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AdmiralDeMoy — Loki - The Dark World SDCC II
Published: 2013-08-20 06:10:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 6000; Favourites: 131; Downloads: 35
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Here's another one from the mega-successful SDCC event. A smiling, happy Loki.Keeping in line with my new-found love for sharpening up all the armour & hair to make it look more '3D'-like, this is to match the first digi painting in the series: admiraldemoy.deviantart.com/ar…
I added a bit more hair again, bushier eyebrows, defined the shoulders, painted in the shoulder guard better. I gave it all more texture again, highly sharpened in places, & of course, green eyes. No extra spotlights of pixie lights this time, just pure Chiaroscuro.
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Funny you should say that, because that's one of the painting with no extra texturing I only did later, & doesn't even have skin texture yet either.
It looks very realistic, yes, on a very minimalistic level, & I think the Chiaroscuro effect gives it this richness, & extra sharpened armour & hair making it look more 3D. 
Thanks for the faves!
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Thank you! 
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Tee hee. I try my best.
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I wish I could paint like you....
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Aww, what can I say to that...
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Try self-portrait.
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I have.... I suck.
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Try something different.
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I don't know how to post pictures on here yet.
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That's very simple. Use the submit function & upload them from your PC.
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I dont draw on my PC.
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I see. You have a scanner to upload your work to PC, & then post it here?
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I do.... Idid draw a cute picture of Tom wearing a bandana.
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Posted anywhere?
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Tee hee. Thanks!
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Wonderful, as always. I always love your art. I will add a touch of constructive crit. I think you may have too much blur around his mouth. I , personally, think it should be a bit sharper. I know you were going for 3D, but the mouth and eyes are the most expressive parts of the face.
You do amazing work with hair and defining the armor. I'm a bit envious.
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The definition is purely achieved by simple sharpening, retouching, & resharpening the originally applied paintwork as often as you see fit, otherwise it would still look as smooth as the face or blue chest piece I only textured. The eyes were in fact sharpened, hence the glint, & the lips look very smooth with no grooves in the original because of the smile stretching them flat. Adding grooves would make no sense therefore. Sharpening that would only make it look more glinting, not 'sharper' in fact, not like the metal or hair, 'raised'. It would look 'highlighted' in a different form but not like when adding actual white highlights either. It depends on the base colours too.
Sharpening works differently, it damages the actual pixels & adds colour specks in the process to lose all original smoothness or even original colours, highlighting only adds pure white to make it look shinier & covers areas in white, not sharper. What I could have done was give the face more skin definition, as in visible pores, not 'sharpness'. It only looks so 'soft' because of the rest standing out so highly defined & was in fact not extra blurred, that's the original base as looks in older extra-white-highlighted works of mine as whole piece where I didn't use sharpening at all & everything looks evenly smooth, which is not 'blur'.
So, there's no need to be envious, the sharpen tool is easy to use. 
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No problem with such a beautiful model.
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Of course I fav'd it, lol
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Tee hee. 
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Why do you create such epicness!? I love it!
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Um, why do we breathe? It's Loki, I have to!
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