My latest effort;
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Heavy tracing was used.
Not exactly sure where I'm going with this, gonna try to remain as close to the ref pic as possible.

Still lots of work yet to be done, right now  I just want to get a feel just to know if I'm going in the right direction.

ref pic;



Edited by Dutrho - 12 July 2007 at 9:20am

his upper lip should be much thinner and darker..

And what's with the dotted lines?  just block out the shading first and then dither when you're done, otherwise if you screw up and have to go back it'll be a bitch to fix

Progress has been slow, (Nice weather outside)
but continuing.



I've started work on the eyes, but already its giving me problems.
How my doing?

The hair looks great!

There's no need to dither so much - just get an extra skin tone or two and it'll look much better.
You should also start on the eyes now. Just getting the basic shape is enough, but It's usually one of the first things I do.
Good luck with your progress. :)

the only place this piece should have dithering anywhere near that style, are the clothes.  otherwise, it looks like crap, to be honest

use the dither to make the face more rounded, specially on that shadow of the left.

Small update on the eyes and eyebrow

Lightened the dark shadow just a tad and worked a bit on the nose.
also tried my hand at those greenish shine spots.




Edited by Dutrho - 14 June 2007 at 9:33am

Your problem isn't a lack of dithering, it's too high of a contrast. Lighten the shadow of his cheek bone. It looks like he's got a hole in his face now. How about some lines on that hand of his?

Lightened the shadows a bit again, fixed his lower lip by 1px.

I'm not really sure why I made this, but hopefully it'll help you  in your  rendering.   Basically, you're doing fine but you need to pay closer attention to the subtle shapes.    Also your aa could be improved, it seems you just put two pixels of lighter shades on every edge, it doesn't always work like that.  It's hard to explain what i mean so you can just zoom in I guess.
Sorry.. I love editing things and I get carried away sometimes... :)
But I hope it gives you some ideas as you continue.  Especially about the skin tones.  There has to be a hue shift there. Cause he's not just all yellow like that, there's some grays in the lighter part.

been working on the face a lot

@Leel; I appreciate all the help your giving me, but please don't edit my stuff to such a degree, sure it helps to be able to visualize what your saying, but it really annoys me. To any and all that want a got at this, I'll post the line art in the Line's Den once I'm done.

I'll lighten it again in the next edit, the ref pic shows the shadow to be pretty dark, but it dosen't translate well to pixels.

Don't have much time to pixel today, but I tried to fix the shadow a bit;
or 

first one I just added a transition colour and reduced the size of "dark" shadow.  Second one I replaced the "dark" with the transition colour.

I prefer the 1st one, to me it seems to have more dept. but then again my monitor is soo crappy its hard to tell.

Had some time to work on it a bit today. messed around with the shine and added some highlights to the cheeks. also played around with the hand.

dang-it, totally forgot about that, thanks MoD.



I'm thinking the face is pretty much done, unless someone finds something I should change/add/remove. Next step, hand and shirt.

Try making the light highlights on the jaw on our left more round, like leel's and reaching down more.

I would say stick to a <36 colour pallete so you have a bit of leniancy.

 think you should make the eyes wider, and i agree with eckered about the 32 colours max

TNG is the best series. Granted the first Star Trek was a pioneering series but it had no real depth. I want a large Piccard. This is looking wonderful however.

Try making the highlight shade less blue. More reddish, I think.