[Fallenangel]

Thanks for checking my SB, i really appreciate it

I like your style and what you do so far looks really good.
Though it is maybe more of a personal taste, i would have added more contrast and saturation to the colors...in the monk pic imo the colors get greyer not darker.

Anyways, keep up with the great job and keep updating!

Fallen.

[cerkvenik]

Thank for stopping by and for the feedback FallenAngel!
Your SB is really an inspiration!

Well. I agree that it lacks some contrast, I told Kherns that I had some issues with my monitor, and I used to get thinks too dark either..now Im kinda in the opposite way.. it´s been hard to find a balance

for the saturared colors, i wanted to got with a bucolic look, kinda old paintings, but I wanna try some colors after i saw yours and Mike Azevedo sketchbook!

thx!

[cerkvenik]

little update! hands up if you painted all day too! !
I´m not liking those roofs too much..I think I´ll go back to the vines..

[cerkvenik]

hand studies! (i'm proud, no colorpicking!) :P

[MrBrown]

sweet hand studies man don't forgot the subsurface scattering

[cerkvenik]

Thanks for stopping by MrBrown!
And thanks for the feedback! I was trying a more painterly style with those studies, I used only a hard round brush and some smudge. But I´ll definitely try to add some subsurface scattering! I found some good texts explaining!

[cerkvenik]

A big update!
I need to thank Bourguereau for his pallete hard critiques are mostly welcome! (gotta take another photo for ref, I changed the pose)

[kevin-]

good stuff in your sb! really like the last hand studies!

[Kherns]

Originally Posted by cerkvenik

Do you belive that I´ve done the basic calibration from my video card and it set my brightness to 0?!! I know my older paintings looks kind dark in most monitors, but "my" office is not that bright! let´s see what happens to the next painting..

Thanks! I´m happy with the result too, the hair is the only part I kinda gave up for the moment..

Wouldn´t you trust him? Oh man! I´ve done all wrong then! he's supposedly to be friendly and trustworthy!

No wasn't say that for the brightness hehe, it's just that sometimes, calibrating is a P.I.A. Yep for the monk i find it really mean.

Have you changed the lady ? I really liked the first one face, very middle age feeling.

[richartworks]

love the story going on, this will turn out beautiful. Be careful of the tangent of the door frame with her back

[cerkvenik]

@kevin Thanks Kevin! these bigger illustrations are done at my third shift so it's hard to have some time to practice! And deviantnep skin swatch really helped a lot!

@rich4rt Thanks Rich4rt! This illustrations are part of a book, I don't like very much how the author wrote the story but I'm learning a lot! I'm not very happy with that corner yet..let's see if I can solve it tonight

Kherns Hi Kherns! I changed the callibration again lol, I checked in other monitors and printed some things too. I hope its better, yaa it's really a PIA (never heard that acronym lol)
I changed her face a little bit but took the headwear off when I changed her dress to white, but thanks for the feedback! I'll try to put it back!

[Amaakir]

Great sketchbook,man, and congratz on those latest hand studies without using the colorpicker! Whats the subsurface scattering if you mind me asking?
Great work!

[cerkvenik]

Thanks Amaakir!
I think my skin painting really evolved after I got DeviantNet skin swatch and some skin brushes too. It's amazing to discover how skin has so many colors and textures

Well, subsurface scattering is about how the light travels thru objects, there are far more texts about it applied to 3d but there are few good texts about applied to painting.

One of the best is Gurney Journey's
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com.br...cattering.html

well, the whole blog is awesome, one of the top 5 every artist should follow

Daniel Maidman has a good text too
http://danielmaidman.blogspot.com.br...cattering.html

See how my studies doesn't have it? it's very opaque, well, one reason I think is that the photo lighting is very uniform. I need to research more how skin behaves on that kind of enviroment. I recently saw that Bourguereau painting's has this kind of light, but there are subtle colors in it. Download some high-res, you'll see!

Edit: I just found an awesome example!

[cerkvenik]

My model couldn't to shoot this weekend, so I made some studies!

[cerkvenik]

as I´m having some problems with my models for the last illustration, I went ahead for the next!
hard critiques are welcome!