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Published: 2008-06-21 02:51:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 2773; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 0
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Nefyavie, bard of Il Senso De Acqua and founding member of The Seekers.*full view please*
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Technical Bits:
Tourmaline for V4 by FK Designs
Paris 65 hair by FK Designs
Xurge Fantasy Rogue outfit by Xurge 3d
rendered in Poser 7 with Firefly Engine
On the Edge Background by Didi MC was added after render in Photoshop.
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I did a lot to enhance this image after rendering. I used a technique to vivify the render, then I used the dodge and burn tool to try to get the back lighting on the figure to match the back lighting on the tree.
I painted in the navy blue shirt inside the armor.
I painted over the hair a touch to create more highlights, enhanced the eyes, panted the lips to increase their glossiness, smoothed out a subsurface scatter that seemed to appear on the skin that gave the character more freckles than I liked.
I enhanced the color and contrast of the jewelery as well as added the knotwork ring -- using the ring from this sketch I had done: [link]
And for a final touch I used these bird brushes: [link] At least I think those are the ones I used.
I kept in mind the rule of 3's while working on the composition of this piece.
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So here is my requested feedback:
1. Does the shirt I painted look right? Is there something more I could do or should do? Does the pattern look too random?
2. The enhancements I mentioned, do they look right or do they stand out as painted against a 3d image?
3. Is the skin tone too brown in the shadows?
Any thoughts you guys have on these and other topics for improvement, I'd appreciate.
EDIT: I changed the hair a bit as per the comments below.
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Comments: 45
Love the look on her face, she looks so sweet
Again, you did a great job on the clothing design, I think the patterns look very nice, kinda mystical. An I like the texture on those, erm... arm thingies 
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Thank you very much and thank you again for the fave!
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Wow! You have captured a really innocent, gorgeous and calming facial expression!
It's a joy to look the girl! Great work!
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Thank you very much! And thanks for the fave
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To think I'll be treading where Nefyavie has this coming Saturday. Not to mention annoying Cassius.
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Hehe I heard you were going to join the Saturday night group. Annoying Cassius is perhaps one of the best things ever... and its so easy to do!
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1. The pattern does not look odd (maybe the straps, I'd double check that), but the lighting looks a little off, and the clothing needs more folds to it so it is not too stiff.
2. The enhancements are good, but there needs to be more lights and darks in the face to give it a more realistic feel. Having a light point would create more shadows, for example, if the light would come through the tree. Or, she would have more shadows because of the overcast weather.
3. As for the shadows, I don't think they are off, no one has a true black shadow, so the shadows are fine. Contrast is just needs tweaking overall. I like the concept though- and the composition is great
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1. Does the shirt I painted look right? Is there something more I could do or should do? Does the pattern look too random?
I don't see a problem with it.
2. The enhancements I mentioned (in the description of the image), do they look right or do they stand out as painted against a 3d image?
Well, the entire figure looks painted, because it is. It is all good, because, to me at least, the figure is better than the backgroudn.
3. Is the skin tone too brown in the shadows?
No.
Overall a good piece!
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Thank you for the feedback and the complement
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It's a nice image, nice composition.
I'd suggest making bump maps for some of your coloured textures: the straps and the lacing & eyeletts on the front of the bodice look far too flat, they don't have enough shadows around them, making them look like they are "floating".
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Thanks. The outfit is Xurge3d's Fantasy Rogue, I didn't touch it or change it from its default. I'll check on the bump and displacement maps to see if there are any. If not I'll make one.
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I have to say I really like this piece.
Shadows look good. The only thing that catches my eye that could be worked on are the straps. They seem a little to sharp to me and the on the upper right strap on the shoulder looks transparent.
This is a
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If the straps you are talking about are the ones that cross her chest, they were rendered that way by Poser 7 and I did not touch them. Now that I am looking at this piece on my mac, I can totally see how different the image looks in comparison to the PC. Much to the annoyance of my hubby, I think I am going to need to get CS3 on the mac. The monitor is waaaay better.
As to the straps, where I dodged the shoulder is probably the place you think is transparent. The values there are simliar though the shoulder itself is not remotely transparent, but I can see how you might think that. Thanks for pointing that out
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I still love this image. I'm viewing it on a hires windscreen Linux system.
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I LOVE the shirt. Excellent work, and it works perfectly with the piece. The only thing I find truly distracting is it almost seems that there's "too much" negative space over to the right. I'm almost thinking that if you painted (or even cloned) in branches going clear across the top of the piece to the right-hand corner (if that's doable) almost like a frame, I think that would look great. (And I hope that made sense.) But that's a very subjective thing and otherwise I think this is a great piece.
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Great! I'll try that. I agree with the negative space, which was why I put the birds in, but I guess it just wasn't quite enough.
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wow, that's pretty cool!
The shirt's design looks fine. I would just sharpen it some; when you fullview it, it looks blurry. And I would have to say compared with everything else, it does look a bit flat.
The skin tone looks great, and I love the highlights in the hair; really nice job!
I would also like to point out a few free-floating leafy branches on the upper left corner of the tree.
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Thanks. I'll try working with the shirt a bit more and see if I like the pattern sharpened a bit. Not sure how to make the shirt look less flat. Any ideas?
Thanks for the comments on the skin and hair.
LOL I didn't even think of the background because it was not created by me, but I'll see what I can do about fixing the leafy branches back there.
Thank you!
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i think a little more light and dark contrast should do the trick!
You are quite welcome, and I'm glad to help you in any way I can ^_^
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Reworked the collar a bit. I do think that its better. A touch up with the sharpen tool, a little painting, touches with dodge and burn.
I also painted in a branch or two where there were none. I think that helps the leaves look like they have support.
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I think you've done the skin-tone shading very well, the darks don't look too brown to me. I like the way you've patterned the shirt, especially the texture of her arm guards. I get what a few people have said about the hair highlights, they do look a little unnatural, although I didn't notice that until I read the comments. Nice work
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Thanks a lot. I'll see about re-working the hair one more time a little bit.
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Very very nice! I see now what the others have said about the highlites in the hair, but it is not overly-noticable unless you look closely. Still, that might be something to change in a future version.
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Again, thank you. And yeah I could pretty easily change that in a new version later. Though it needed something. I can rework it.
Thanks for the fave
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The only barely noticeable feature that stand out to me is that you can sort of tell that the highlights in the hair were PS'd in there.
Other than that, it's fine. Thumbnail almost looked photographic.
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This is nice, though the highlights don't really serve their purpose for me. Other then that it's very lovely.
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Thanks! And thanks for the fave 
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No problem. 
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Thank you very much. Thanks for the fave too
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your welcome very much
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A fellow ITOH character woohoo!! She looks a lovely person, Trish.
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Oh and I nearly forgot --
FoxDaughter (Il Senso): [link]
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Thank you very much. Can't really take credit for the hand positioning. I forgot to mention I used a pose package for most of this pose.
I got a few ITOH characters in my gallery.
Baruk (from Revanthas): [link]
Nymphequus (Il Senso): [link]
Cassius Arcanus (Il Senso):
[link]
Senator Flametongue (Il Senso NPC): [link]
Bob of the Shady Tree (Il Senso NPC):
[link]
I've done more over the years. I feel I need to re-do some that used to be in my gallery a bit better now.
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Lookit you go with all them!
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I look forward to seeing that
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