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Thanks Nighthawk! Always love being complimented on my imagination!
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For sure! Any particular characters you looking to trade?
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Your formula for faces is a great lesson for construction.
About the only thing I do different is lining the tops of the ears with the eye line. That's the way I was taught in school.
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Thank you, gentlemen!
As for working on others' characters, may I suggest an art trade?
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Eddie Howe has been a criminal pretty much his entire life. Born into a poor family, he stole as a means to survive and often only got three good meals during his numerous stints in juvenile detention. As a teen he began getting involved in gangas and that led onto a heavy involvement in organised crime as a adult, often in a henchman type role. Originally a low ranking member of Henry Richards Card Pack gang, after Richards arrest and subsequent incarceration he found himself working for a mysterious criminal by the name of Mr. Edwards. It was during this time that the Goliath Serum became available on the black market, so of course Mr. Edwards made sure to acquire some and set to work experimenting with the serum, using Howe as his test subject. Though Mr. Edwards was not able to improve on or replicate the serum during his experiments, it would be remiss to say that his experiments were a failure. Howe gained massive strength, able to lift a truck cab with one hand, and became Mr. Edwards personal enforcer, going by the name Deadlift due to his strength and his skull bandana that he wears as a mask.
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An experimental costume for a character I haven't really done anything with for a looooooooong time.
Rory McKenzie is the elder statesmen of Scottish superheroes. He was protecting his home of Scotland and the UK as a whole long before other heroes started showing up. He has long since given up the idea of having a secret identity and everyone knows who he is these days. He is widely lauded as one of the most likable heroes around but some wonder if he's past his prime. Saltire laughs at such questions and often replies that he's only getting started.
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Anyway, got a bit inspired by this weeks contest, so here's an entry.
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@Nighthawk- It's just a case of experimenting. You can have a lot of variety using in individual face part sets. For example, eyes. There are, when you think about it, three ways to use each pair of eyes. You've got using both eyes together, but then you could just use the right eye and flip it so you have a pair of eyes, same goes for the left eye. It's surprising how different a face looks with just those variations.
Also, don't be afraid to use the full faces in the heads category as parts. A lot of my characters use individual parts from the faces and replace everything else with items from the other face categories (e.g. Amazon has the eyebrows and eyes from the last face on the heads-femalefaces page, but I replaced thenose and mouth. With Paragon, I used the wrinkled forehead and the nose from the second face in heads-maleface. And with Lili, I only used the nose from the third face on the second row of heads-femaleface).
It's also worth thinking about positioning. Generally, the eyes should be half way down the head, with the top of the ears lining up with the eyebrows. But you can definately play around with the positioning of the mouth in relation to the nose to give more expression and you can move the etire face further up the head to give the impression of a long chin, provided you also move the hair up to compensate.
Finally, think about eyebrows. They say a lot. Where they are positioned in relation to the eyes and how much they are rotated makes the difference between a character being happy, sad or angry and it can really change how you character feels to the audience. For example, if you look at my Zodiac series, the only thing I purposefully changed on every character between their human and spirit forms was the eyebrow position, the rotated slightly and moved down, to make them look angrier and more ready for action.
But that's just how I do it anyway. I don't tend to shade any of my characters any more so if you're looking for advice on how to shade faces then you'd probably want to ask AMS, djuby or headlessgeneral, they'd be much better than me at giving advice on how to do it well. TBH they would probably be better at giving advice on how to do faces well, since they all do better faces than me anyway.
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Can you give me any advice on making faces for my characters please JR?How do you get yours to look so good?
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