bees-knees (non-pixelart)
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Category: Pixel Art
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Printed Date: 13 June 2026 at 6:20am
Topic: bees-knees (non-pixelart)
Posted By: Dhr. Bosch
Subject: bees-knees (non-pixelart)
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 6:31pm
working on my portfolio (which is severily lacking in colour). so i started with something i can do quickly, pretty women, but i'm not happy yet. this is about oneandahalf hour of work. i'm working on vanilla paint.NET  reference:  i'd apreciate some C+C even though this isn't pixel art |
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Posted By: r1k
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 6:36pm
| are you trying to make the face look like in the reference or are you following the reference more loosley? I dont want to tell you where youre off if its not your intention to make it look just like her. |
Posted By: Dhr. Bosch
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 6:38pm
| i'm not trying to be a human xerox machin. i'm trying to catch the flapper spirit, the reference pic inspired me but that's it |
Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 12 May 2009 at 9:59pm
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You should try to create more volume with more contrast and shading. The shading around the lips makes them look too 2-D. Nice work on the hand.
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Posted By: Dhr. Bosch
Date Posted: 13 May 2009 at 3:44am
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thanks, i wasn't shure about the hand yet, thought it was a bit too large. i experimented with the shading a bit. added a darker hue. the thing is going to be a poster so i rescaled it a bit and added a dark backgound and i'm gonna put "bees knees" in a terribly tall font in the backgound too.  |
Posted By: SHANN0N
Date Posted: 13 May 2009 at 7:38pm
| the lips seem a bit pointy to me and the eyes are kind of rectangular. I dont really think the purples in the skin palette go that well with the red lips either, but that might just be me- like Cure said though, the hand is great. |