Me! :P
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Printed Date: 11 September 2025 at 10:20am
Topic: Me! :P
Posted By: Aleiav
Subject: Me! :P
Date 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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Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 27 June 2005 at 10:53am
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Hey, that's not too bad. A few things I noticed, though: It's not bad, though. |
Posted By: DrunkyDuck
Date 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) ------------- Reaching out to embrace the random. Reaching out to embrace whatever may come. I embrace my desire to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human. |
Posted By: Bear
Date 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 |
Posted By: DrunkyDuck
Date Posted: 27 June 2005 at 4:02pm
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Using 2 colors? Care to explain? Give a suggestion how? ------------- Reaching out to embrace the random. Reaching out to embrace whatever may come. I embrace my desire to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human. |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date 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. |
Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 27 June 2005 at 8:59pm
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in my opinion, you shouldn't be using 50 or 75 % dithering with something |
Posted By: ..::Naso::..
Date 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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Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 28 June 2005 at 11:21am
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Well, I took Drunkduck's step five, and I came up with this: The key to monochromatic pictures is contrast... I dunno, it's not the best edit in the world, but I hope this helps you. |
Posted By: ..::Naso::..
Date Posted: 28 June 2005 at 12:16pm
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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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Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 28 June 2005 at 12:19pm
| ah, well... just trying to help, haha |
Posted By: tommy j4sun
Date Posted: 28 June 2005 at 1:35pm
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really cool. ------------- 
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Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 28 June 2005 at 8:12pm
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 29 June 2005 at 1:02am
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I figured as much :) |