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Hello! I did retouches few years ago & now decided to get back in "business" after a 3-year break. I use DB technique which I learnt after my terrible attempts with blur tool. I'm still trying to learn a fine color technique, but I don't know what I can be doing wrong (for example: lips, eyes, brows, hair, maybe skin itself?). What would you advise me? I'm going to share my current work in this topic and I hope to get better with time! This is my latest attempt: http://lia1989.deviantart.com/art/2013- … -360530453 Thank you in advance! Mar 23 13 02:42 am Link Pretty clean job! I wouldn't have removed the red makeup below the eye - but I would have accentuated it. Also I would have tried to bring out the iris a bit in the eye as well. I like how you did the skin color though. It has a very nice glow. The top lip has a strange edge that I'm not too crazy about. Doesn't quite look natural. Great work over all, especially for just getting back in the game  Mar 23 13 02:51 pm Link Thank you for an honest opinion. I've got one more work to share, but I'm awaiting approval for using it outside MM.Mar 23 13 04:22 pm Link I think the skin loos a little over-saturated. It might be my weird monitor, though. The hairs on her nose are a little distracting. The edges of her lips could use a little work -- I can also see a green "infection" on the corner of the upper lip. When you desaturate the teeth to make them look whiter instead of removing the coloration, you have to light them up a little to not make them look gray. Other than that, great work! Keep it up!(: Mar 23 13 08:40 pm Link I don't use 100% of white on teeth, I know it would look fake this way. I will try with lightning them, though. I can't see any green on her lips...? And I have no idea how different I should have treated lips? I followed one of tutorials up here on how to treat lips (very genius, by the way!). I gave them shape, but does it look fake? Maybe it's about colors &/or light? I agree about nose, I don't know why I didn't remove these little hairs. Thank you! Mar 24 13 01:10 am Link I had lots of trouble with hair. Any advice on how to treat it right? I couldn't find any helpful tutorial beside the one with Natalie's dark cloning thing. http://lia1989.deviantart.com/art/2013- … -361284991 Mar 24 13 02:33 pm Link Anyone, please? I'm not going to believe it has no flaws!Mar 26 13 01:54 am Link the link doesn't work Mar 26 13 04:15 am Link It does. Mar 26 13 04:47 am Link
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Reason: not helpful Mar 26 13 07:35 am Link Please, I ask for constructive criticism, not advertisements... :-/ I cannot afford buying DVDs - I'm a student. Mar 26 13 09:57 am Link Nostril hairs and the eye (our right) looks strange being blacked out. Perhaps processing the RAW a few times for different areas of the image could get some information out of that area. Mar 26 13 10:02 am Link Okay, so once more - should I leave or not these nose hairs, because I'm lost? You would advice to bring out the eyes, Mike? I will keep that in mind next time. Mar 26 13 10:32 am Link brush back the neck muscles you lost that and it looks strange and splotchy at the moment. Lip line to me should be a little softer looks drawn and unnatural to me. Hair I would tone down the flyaways instead of completely removing unless that is what you wanted. Mar 26 13 12:45 pm Link But the lip line was like that from the beginning... Thanks for the comment on hair. :-) I have little trouble with all the "muscles" when it comes to whole body. I need to work on that. Mar 26 13 01:22 pm Link Lia1989 wrote: lip: maybe don't darken around the lips as much. Mar 26 13 02:15 pm Link Hm, okay, thought sometimes few of these "muscles" aren't needed. I noticed a lot of retouchers lighten them out. Thanks! Mar 26 13 05:10 pm Link Okay, before posting my next retouch, I corrected "muscles" a bit and lips border (it was darker! I brought it back to normal), I hope it looks fine now. Of course, looking forward to all your comments! http://lia1989.deviantart.com/art/2013- … -361839826 Mar 27 13 05:26 am Link I corrected lips and brows in my first retouch posted here: http://lia1989.deviantart.com/art/2013- … -360276839 Mar 29 13 07:12 am Link Mar 31 13 07:07 am Link Please? Could anyone critique? :-) Apr 02 13 12:48 am Link Another retouch... http://lia1989.deviantart.com/art/2013- … -363085908 Kinda lost hope anyone would comment... Apr 02 13 07:31 am Link Why don't you try to just focus on one image at the time!! It feels a bit bombarding!! :-) Apr 02 13 01:46 pm Link I can't just sit and do nothing, I enjoy retouching. :-P I learnt new technique today, so I hope to upload something new tomorrow! Apr 02 13 01:58 pm Link Lia1989 wrote: Lia that's great but try to don't mix threads, as it becomes confusing for other people to follow or even try to help. One image per thread is always easier!! :-) Apr 02 13 02:12 pm Link Hm, that's weird to me. On most forums people start a thread to share their work and let others comment - I didn't know it works different for here... BUT it would be stupid to make separate threads for each retouch of mine, especially since I make a lot of them... Perhaps I confuse with posting retouch by retouch, but no one wanted to comment and I prefer to keep my work updated. I'm not forcing anyone to comment on each retouch, just recent work. :-) If it's better to start new threads for each work, I would like to hear that from one more person, so I can be sure it's alright (and not violating any rules/spaming/etc). Apr 02 13 03:18 pm Link Lia1989 wrote: Lia if that's weird to you, just a have a look at the critique forum and you will see that most of the time... there is only one image to critique!! Apr 02 13 03:37 pm Link |
