fixing my old art.. compare =)

i thought i would different method and style to fix one of my fav drawing..

tell me if it's better

i didnt recolor the wings yet... just recolored hari, armor, arm, face...wip

btw if you say it's a bit blurry, it's 50% resized

yyou made it sharper, the eye looks the other way, and you changed the earrings.... its all good

Wait... isn't the new one on the left?

It looks much smoother and more realistic...

icbm1987

yes, one on the left is the new one.

For now, the old one looks better imo.

i agree~~~~~~

hmmm weird.. left one is suppose to look better... here is bigger one.

nope sry old is better... dont judge my judgement

I like the one on the right better. The one on the left looks greasy and his hair doesn't have highlights.

The hair on the left has highlights - they're more realistically subtle.

I love the new one, and think it's vastly improved. I particularly like the way you made the outlines finer (big outlines are okay, but I like thin ones more), and made the lighting on his armour more believable. The skin looks much more painterly now, and is nicely rendered, and the face more refined (nice eye!).

Overall, I think he's much sexier now! The only thing I really want to say is that the way you shade armour is very... soft and air-brushy, in general. It just doesn't look crisp and solid, like the rest of the piece. I'd like to see some more sharp edges and angles, and where it's rounded a more "beat/pounded metal" look to it, if possible.

Very minor thing, but it was on my mind. ^^

expected form jacinthe.. yea you know exactly what you are4 talking about. you pointed out all the things i fixed... good to hear things from someone who understands art =P
anyways.. like you said i worked on armor a bit more.. but dunno what you really want.. o well here it is

do u do shading w/ dodge/burn? i actually prefer coloring by changing the shade of color and going over it at a low opac. linear dodge tends to make skin look rather oily, and burning sometimes gives a gunky/inky color to skin.

but i do love the way u colored that armor...

Much better! Great job, orin. ;D

since ur choosing for a concept art, pick the left one

The left one looks better, but for some reason I think the division of shading on the armor is a little too straight - it looks a little like some sort of half-and-half armor, light-side and dark-side. If it's supposed to be that way, okay. If the lighting is natural, then I think you should also brighten up some areas such as the forehead and the top of the nose of that face in the armor in front of his collarbones. I'm no master of art, though.