Just finished a new project. It took all of one afternoon. Its another photorealism.
I appreciate comments and criticisms.

hi,
Very good indeed. Much much better than I can create. Perhaps the mouth may be too wide and the very ends of the mouth usually have a bit of shadow from a little bit of the cheek. The gradient on the white of the eyeballs goes from a very dark to a very light and that seems to cause the eyes to bulge like they are coming out of the eye sockets too much so bit less gradient in that place may be nicer. I like how you have chosen what should remain in sharp focus and what should be in a soft focus

The detail on the hair is phenomenal. I have no problem with the mouth, but I do echo the sentiment about the eye bulging. I think it may be the shadow beneath the eye more than the gradient on the eye itself, though. Still, fantastic work, congrats on your skill.

turquoise wrote:hi,
Very good indeed. Much much better than I can create. Perhaps the mouth may be too wide and the very ends of the mouth usually have a bit of shadow from a little bit of the cheek. The gradient on the white of the eyeballs goes from a very dark to a very light and that seems to cause the eyes to bulge like they are coming out of the eye sockets too much so bit less gradient in that place may be nicer. I like how you have chosen what should remain in sharp focus and what should be in a soft focus

I used a photo reference, so the mouth is spot on, but I agree with your comment about the eye bulging out. I think what makes that effect is the dark shadow around her bottom eyelid. I will fix this asap. This was my first time using depth of field which is the focus effect you see, I need to redo it because it is choppy. Thank you for calling my attention to the eye.

llogg wrote:The detail on the hair is phenomenal. I have no problem with the mouth, but I do echo the sentiment about the eye bulging. I think it may be the shadow beneath the eye more than the gradient on the eye itself, though. Still, fantastic work, congrats on your skill.

The hair is actually the only part I was dissatisfied with. The hair to the left of the image that is in focus looks good, but the hair along the bottom left and right looks god awful. I might redo all the hair near the bottom of the image.
Thank you for the praise!

I actually like the eye! To me, the skin is a bit flat and/or washed out. And I think that may cause the eye to stand out more. But perhaps flat/washed out skin texture comes from the photo, or the way the photo was processed? Another great effort!

I think the stuff you do is amazing.

Can I ask, How do you do hair?

I have been trying with interpolation, and I end up with thousands of paths, but it still don't look right.

Yours looks like hair, so if it's not a trade secret or something, can you give me a hint?

Lillie wrote:I think the stuff you do is amazing.

Can I ask, How do you do hair?

I have been trying with interpolation, and I end up with thousands of paths, but it still don't look right.

Yours looks like hair, so if it's not a trade secret or something, can you give me a hint?

Lillie, for all of the photo-realism projects I have done, I have looked for a better solution to the hair problem (still not satisfied with the above results, but mostly due to my haste and laziness), but finally, I end up just using the calligraphy tool with the graphics tablet. It will be really tough for you if you don't have a tablet, but unfortunately if you want real hair this is the only method I have found. If you want to see some other methods (interpolation is really not a good method), there are two other tutorials that suggest other methods, but the hair does not turn out real enough. And I would even argue that using a table with the callig tool is faster.

The tutorials that I looked at were
http://www.google.com/translate?u=http% ... en&ie=UTF8 This one uses interpolation, I didn't try this one too thoroughly.
http://chrisdesign.wordpress.com/2007/1 ... ing-hairs/ - This is the one that looks decent on black hair, but still if you look at the hair ends, it is a little strange. Uses the pattern along path. I think this is the best way to make hair without a tablet.
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... Paths.html - Not the exact one, but uses the stitch sub-paths technique

We discussed this some in a previous thread viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4080

Also, if you decide to use the callig tool, I would recommend going into the inkscape settings, and checking the "use absolute units" box in the calligraphy tool. This will ensure that all strokes are the same width regardless of what zoom level you are at.

I appreciate the comments, and let me know if you want more help.
If you want to see more of my realism in Inkscape, my gallery is http://famine-star.deviantart.com/

Thanks.

I will have to try that.

I did try it before but it didn't work.

I think your advice about making them absolute units might make all the difference!

I have had a look at your gallery on deviant art, and your stuff really is wonderful!