A Project

This is not a photograph, seriously. I made it in photoshop using a reference photo off to the side. I will even get my old computer of its box in my basement so I can get the reference off of it because the picture is old and isn't on my laptop.

looking very realistical, but I bet you used the eyedropper.

its a legitimate tool. what's your point.

You dont learn anything.

Oh but I do.

Looking at the same mistakes you make over and over again. No, you dont.

Neither do you apparently.

The wrong thing in using eyedropper is that you're basicaly cheating, you use the lazy man's way. If you strive to guess the colors by yourself it's much better, because you'll develop a sense of chosing good, realistical colors for your paintings. Look at the paintings you did without an eyedropper and you'll realise that the colors are way too saturated or way too desaturated. Next time you paint from a reference, don't use eyedropper for your good. I used to use eyedropper and it didn't helped me and I know others that used it and didn't helped them so it's for your own good not to use it.

Oh, if you use eyedropper to see in what range of colors the colors in the picture are, and then pick the colors by yourself (not with eyedropper from the real picture), then it's more than ok.

Does making the entire thing in black and white and then using (for the most part) one color for each area on a layer with a different blending option count for anything?

here's a couple of the black and white ones i found on my photobucket account from the earlier development of this project:



and heres the finished black and white one and the color layer (I think I used either screen or color or overlay for the blending option)



As you can see, its not a complete "cheat" on the coloring aspect of it.

And I did learn something from this despite popular belief that I didn't. Nobody told me about this technique and I never read anything about it. I just wanted to see how it would turn out if I made it black and white first then did a separate layer for color.

1) I can't see any image
2) you said that you used the eyedropper, you didn't said about making it b&w and then use a separate layer for hues. That's a totaly different thing. Many artists do that.

Oh.. well I'll just upload them here then.

the girl is going to give you head when you show her this?

Funny how you can paint in sections like that with no underdrawing and still deny painting over the photo.

still denying your jealously lightkirtar, honestly leave him alone i dont see you posting your pictures if your so good

You give yourself far too much credit. It's good but it lacks depth, it looks flat and there's no variation in the shading and highlights so it just doesn't fit in with the surroundings.