Mello hates you

[telophase]

I am twelve years old and I will never get tired of saying that Mello hates you.










Noticed that his eyes were too far to the left and it was making his face look weird, so adjusted them. Decided that I hated what I'd done on his hair, deleted it, and started over again, somewhat-but-not-really following humbugle's tutorial on portraits.

Also spent a lot of time painting in his forehead and widening his cheeks so that I could have the hair over those areas transparent and not solid, which should make it look better when I'm finished with it.




 

Comments

[kitsunesan.livejournal.com]

You never cease to amaze me sweetness, this is awesome. And Mello may hate me, but he sure does it prettily there. XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

And Mello can hate me as much as he wants, because he's just so adorable doing it. (Which makes him hate me even more.)

[marith.livejournal.com]

*whines* But I've never even reead him, why does he hate mee?

..oh, right. That's a perfectly good reason right here.

Nice picture.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I think he hates everyone, on general principles.

Thanks!

[llamameeljueves.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Curiously, Mello looks "surprised" in your painting to me. If you cover his mouth, it seems he is a bit surprised, maybe because the shadow lines in his forehead resemble eyebrows.

I can't wait to see Near finished. He is looking tons better in your drawing than in the real Manga. He looks sinister, less childish, and with a sense of security in himself that rivals Johan Liebert's

A question, do you paint it with normal brushes? or you are using a software? *I can't tell teh difference*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:) Thanks! I'm using Photoshop, actually, and it's the most realistic thing I've ever painted in Photoshop. The technique is, basically, to use a brush with low opacity, so it's partially transparent, to lay the colors down, and then use the eyedropper tool to pick nearbycolors up and paint them on with the transparent brush, so they layer over each other, and build it up that way.

[awamiba.livejournal.com]

Before reading, I was going to say that I liked his hair better, but didn't know why. :) The scar is still awesome.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD Thanks! His hair color and skin tones don't mesh at the moment, but since I'm going to do color-correction at the end, it shouldn't matter.

[homasse.livejournal.com]

Thoroughly unrelated to Mello but something I saw that made me crack up and thought you would appreciate.

How Japanese soccer fans show what they think of the head of the JFA, Saburo Kawabuchi:



Made me giggle, that's for sure. >XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*snerk* XDDD

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Looking awesome!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[helen-keeble.livejournal.com]

Ooo, looking good! (I'm only up to vol. 4 in Death Note, so I have no idea why Mello hates me. Or who he is.)

If you've got a moment to spare, could you explain your use of the colour bars/test patches to the left? I presume you're using them as a colour palette on a separate layer, but I'm intrigued by the four long bars of colour. Are those colours for base skin, highlight, shadow, and base hair?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Mello hates you because he is better than you.

Yup, they're a palette on a separate layer. The two bars on the right aren't being used - they were supposed to be the hair, but I gave up on them and I have a photo of a blonde woman open in Photoshop and am pulling colors off of that right now. XD

I got this idea from some digital paintign tutorial I ran across a few days ago. Two bars representing a base skin color and a base shadow, then work out hour general light/shadow colors scheme, and scribble those colors over the bars with a brush set on low opacity so that the base colors combine with them. That way the colors are already unified and don't look weird when put together.

However, most of my colors, once I get the base colors and the first layers of shadow and highlight down, are taken from the painting itself. Using a low-opacity brush (15-20%, although I go up to 35% sometimes) to build the colors up, to blend two colors you put them down next to each other. You brush one over the other a bit - since it's low-opacity there will be a new color forming. You use the eyedropper to pick that color up and use it to brush between the two. Lather, rinse, repeat until you've got a reasonably smooth blend.

ah

[lovablekat.livejournal.com]

I can't help it but I must put my input on this, even though I'm envying your talent. But his eyes, they are slightly far apart. Remember an eyes width between the two. I thought it was just the hair in his face but I was measuring and it still seems off. Anyways, great work. ^^

Re: ah

[telophase.livejournal.com]

There actually is about an eye's width between them, IIRC - his hair is making them look smaller. If I remember when I get him, I'll hide the hair layers and measure again. :)

I'm also going by the nose - the inner corners of the eye usually hit the line you get when you draw straight upward from the outer edges of the nostrils.