Hello!
I create a portrait of random woman, and I don't know what BG use for this. Please give some ideas, and correct my errors with PA.

Her eyes look too close together and the eye on the ‘far’ side (right side to the viewer) looks too high up/out of alignment with the other eye.

This is much more interesting, MWG. But the sharp lighting and vivid colours on the character is entirely at odds with her background. I really like the background, but judging by the colours used on the woman, it looks like she's standing outside on a sunny day, at noon.

And it looks like she's staring slighty to the right of the viewer. I think it would be better to having look directly at us, or in a completely different direction.

At this scale, I think a typica mistake is wanting to do the eyes with a distinct pupil, surrounded by a circular iris and with white pixels on one or both sides. Experiment a bit with other ways of painting the eyes. Maybe you don't need that white colour at all. Maybe you can use more brown to create some depth around the eyes.



EDIT: Also added a bit of AA around the lips, eyebrows and on that weird dark field between her face and the background.


Edited by CELS - 10 May 2014 at 1:23pm

Thanks, Limes, you're entirely correct. Now that you mention it, I don't know if I ever give much thought to whether or not a portrait (especially pixel art) looks similar to its reference, as long as it looks good. Unless the whole point is to capture something specific, like an emotion.

You'll notice I didn't draw her mouth as smiling, nor did MWG.

For this piece, I think a sad face makes as much sense as a happy face, given that the background is creepy as sh*t.



Maybe you have some critique for the OP too?


Edited by CELS - 11 May 2014 at 12:40am

Snow. Snow would work.

Maybe, only if it will look aesthetically.