#Doing faces of one of my OC any tips???

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azure spire
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do you have a reference picture or something that looks like the style you want?

vagrant fractal
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I guess its my style

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but the textures of the hair are based on android 18 from dragon ball

azure spire
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i think you could make it look less square-ish
also maybe the neck 2/8 less large

vagrant fractal
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okay

azure spire
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also
when i say style you want, it can be drawings you like

vagrant fractal
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oh ok

azure spire
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the nose in the fourth one is looking a bit too sharp/ pointy

vagrant fractal
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What rules or tricks do y´all have for keeping a normal neck size

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I struggle a lot with that

weak wedge
# azure spire also when i say style you want, it can be drawings you like

Something i want to input is that with any artist there is no such thing as a 100% original art style. All art styles are influenced by others. The only one that is arguably truly original is hieroglyphs and petroglyphs and even then. They all were influenced by something so even those were not original

vagrant fractal
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A neck like this is better or is it too small?

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azure spire
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azure spire
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I suck at necks lol

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azure spire
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maybe something like 3% smaller

also when i draw the neck i tend to make the top line go back out a bit,
so a curve

azure spire
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my trick for femine characters is that the base of the jaw isn't very flat

vagrant fractal
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Can i see one of ur drawings?? Im really curious about ur style

azure spire
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ok

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that's one of my more recent

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vagrant fractal
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Damm that is quite nice

azure spire
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azure spire
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I tried doing some modifications to hair

vagrant fractal
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How would u color her?

azure spire
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-the hair is more puffy
-the thingy at the root of the hair is more pronouced and a bit triangular
-no middle line

the ear in the side view is a bit to big in depth

azure spire
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100% digital

azure spire
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ok
do you have a color you want for the hair

vagrant fractal
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I was thinking black or blonde

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Black or dark color look like this tho

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With blonde hair those "white" sports look a little less

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azure spire
azure spire
vagrant fractal
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I mean that

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azure spire
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aahhh the bucket tool
that depends on what program you're using and what sensitivity settings you have.

i think it's better to fill it with a big brush and then erase the surplus

I'd go with blond for now cause it's easier to make the color choices

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or you can make a copy of the layer that you put underneath and fill multiple times (so it overflows and hides it) (well it depends on what brush you're using)

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also the hair puff you added should go higher
it's kind of too sharp

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what i do when
coloring digital:
0 choose a color palette
1 paint the main colors
2 take a color for the shadow. don't just go darker, change the saturation a bit.
paint the shadows ( only the dark ones, the lighter ones can use a color picked in 4)
3 do the same for the highlights but the opposite way, so lighter and les saturated ( you don't need to change the saturation too much)
4 gradient (according to taste) take a color that is in between your base and shadow/highlight color and use it in between those to transition the colors. repeat as much as you like. if you prefer hard shadows (shadows that aren't smoothly transitioned), you can pretty much skip this step.

gloomy galleon
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i think the eyes are too big for the head; unless this is your personal style, i think you should make them a bit smaller

ionic lynx
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I feel like for the colouring you could do it on another layer and then do it or if you can alpha lock it rather than erasing the excess

clear jackal
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don't forget to bring the ears in a bit closer to her head after you adjusted her jaw on the front facing poses : )

vagrant fractal
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Modified some stuff

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Some color attempt

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