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Aleiav
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Quote Aleiav Replybullet Topic: Me! :P
    Posted: 25 June 2005 at 2:36am


Based off of this picture:



:) In juuust black and white! :P

I'd like to improve the face in general and keep it to two colors.
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Quote Citizen_Insane Replybullet Posted: 27 June 2005 at 10:53am

Hey, that's not too bad.

A few things I noticed, though:
The eyes are too far apart
The eyes are off-set a bit in the original
The lips seem a bit too small

It's not bad, though.

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Quote DrunkyDuck Replybullet Posted: 27 June 2005 at 3:33pm
Here's an mspaint edit:



1. resized the original picture to your B&W image size using IrfanView
2. traced with bright red so I have no problem separating the outline from darker colors
3. cleaned up
4. colored with dark grey, then added midtones with a brighter shade
5. added the highlights
6. dithered starting from the darkest color, the highlights colored white, then finally added the darkest shades using black

The next thing I would do is probably add more definition around the nose and maybe around the lips.

I hope this helps.

EDIT: Added 7 with a different dithering style (vertical lines)

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Quote Bear Replybullet Posted: 27 June 2005 at 3:35pm
i don't like the dithering, on either of them, you can make a way better picture with a lot less amount of dithering
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Quote DrunkyDuck Replybullet Posted: 27 June 2005 at 4:02pm
Using 2 colors? Care to explain? Give a suggestion how?
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Quote sedgemonkey Replybullet Posted: 27 June 2005 at 5:39pm
That's quite a challenge with two colors in such a small space.  Dithering is going to look weird without a third color.
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Quote Citizen_Insane Replybullet Posted: 27 June 2005 at 8:59pm

in my opinion, you shouldn't be using 50 or 75 % dithering with something
this small..

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Quote ..::Naso::.. Replybullet Posted: 27 June 2005 at 10:59pm
I thing you should forget about dithering on this one and go for a dif, style. maybe a KOF fighter portrate? just a thought
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Quote Citizen_Insane Replybullet Posted: 28 June 2005 at 11:21am

Well, I took Drunkduck's step five, and I came up with this:

The key to monochromatic pictures is contrast...
I brought out most of the shadows with plain
old black, I made sure to leave enough white
to show some nice high lights here and there...

I dunno, it's not the best edit in the world, but I hope this helps you.

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Quote ..::Naso::.. Replybullet Posted: 28 June 2005 at 12:16pm
Insane, i really like that one the best of all you really make it look good even with 2 colors =D
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Quote Citizen_Insane Replybullet Posted: 28 June 2005 at 12:19pm
ah, well... just trying to help, haha
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Quote tommy j4sun Replybullet Posted: 28 June 2005 at 1:35pm
really cool.
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Quote Aleiav Replybullet Posted: 28 June 2005 at 8:12pm
Just kept the two colors for the heck of it, not really for anything else.

In other forums I got suggestions to use different types of dithering and I plan to do that.

:) Thank you all for your help. !

This I did just by looking at the picture BTW, not tracing over it.
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Quote Citizen_Insane Replybullet Posted: 29 June 2005 at 1:02am

I figured as much :)

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