08-15-2013, 09:37 PM
Yoko is coming along very nicely. You mentioned you were trying to figure out how that guy managed smooth rendering earlier. Looking at your stuff you don't know about the soft edge brushes yet! That is a very useful tool for rendering skin, especially the softer skin textures.
I just went over your strokes quickly on Yoko's skin with a basic Soft Round brush to show you an example. Also just as a suggestion, you could soften the edges of the sun. The way I did it was by using a Tilt Shift blur filter, setting the top edge of the sun to take the least of the blur and intensifying as it went downward. Then a Distort Wave filter with 0 vertical wave and then a pass with the Soft Round again. You're already doing great with the colors and composition, keep it up!
I just went over your strokes quickly on Yoko's skin with a basic Soft Round brush to show you an example. Also just as a suggestion, you could soften the edges of the sun. The way I did it was by using a Tilt Shift blur filter, setting the top edge of the sun to take the least of the blur and intensifying as it went downward. Then a Distort Wave filter with 0 vertical wave and then a pass with the Soft Round again. You're already doing great with the colors and composition, keep it up!
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