what is my skin shading missing?
#HOW do I make my skin shading more like the refrence it looks so nice and etherial
hot nexus
coarse lodge
Maybe using a different color for the shadows— the shading is comprised of desaturated colors in the original reference
hot nexus
What do you mean?
coarse lodge
Your piece is highly saturated while the reference is not. Try using a more desaturated color for the skin. Basically just color pick something that’s more muted a less vibrate red color idk how to explain beyond that
Just an example
junior shuttle
Use I lighter shades as well to bring more light to her face. Like on her forehead, nose, cheek, and neck
hot nexus
Is that all thats off?
Brighter light and more desaturated colours
Ima try that
Still feels like im missing a concept
coarse lodge
When you finish the changes, send an updated version, and I'll see if I can point anything else out
hot nexus
sadly desaturating didnt work
hot nexus
Rn its like this and its still not even close
coarse lodge
sadly desaturating didnt work
How so
hot nexus
Its in the new image I tried like 30 different things
coarse lodge
Ohh I see
hot nexus
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rough hawk
like @coarse lodge said, the reference you're referring to is composed of desaturated/cooler tones, and yours is very vibrant
if you look closely, the skintone of your reference is very much a pale, greyish white tone
the blush tone is very light, may have used an airbrush for it
the shadows are only a tad darker than the base skin tone
it isn't really detailed either, her face is very round and soft without much definition.
young thorn
They have more cool toned, unsaturated bright colors and you used very very warm kinda dark and saturated colors