Standardizing Portraits

Post by **Kestenvarn** » July 13th, 2007, 8:28 am

Colors are looking good, although in the young malin sketch the rest of his body looks rather like a block.

Mathijs · Post by **Mathijs** » July 13th, 2007, 8:46 am

A minor detail to me, but in the older Malin portrait the rope thingy from his cap is looking weird. It looks like it is an enlongment of his left side of the cap.
Also his right eyebrow is shining perfectly through his hair, maybe fading it a little more would be better

Don't let you get down by the comments though, it's great work you're doing here

Keep it up!

Mat

Post by **irrevenant** » July 13th, 2007, 10:34 am

zookeeper wrote:
irrevenant wrote:In the second picture the two characters are almost duplicates of each other [...]
They're not two characters, they're both the same character.

That's embarassing.

The figure on the bottom left (young Malin) looks a lot like the woman on the top left (Dela?) and I thought it was another picture of her.

I think all three pictures look overly similar (eyes, nose, chin and hair).

If the top left picture is also Malin, please disregard.

Post by **torangan** » July 13th, 2007, 12:24 pm

The younger Malin looks definitely male in the coloured version to me. As long as the picture of the woman will look like one as well the similiarity is perfectly fine for me. They're brother and sister after all...

Post by **West** » July 13th, 2007, 12:32 pm

irrevenant wrote:The figure on the bottom left (young Malin) looks a lot like the woman on the top left (Dela?) and I thought it was another picture of her.

[OT]Amusing fact: in Sweden, Malin is a girl's name

[/OT]

theycallmerooster · Post by **theycallmerooster** » July 13th, 2007, 4:08 pm

Mathijs wrote:A minor detail to me, but in the older Malin portrait the rope thingy from his cap is looking weird. It looks like it is an enlongment of his left side of the cap.
Also his right eyebrow is shining perfectly through his hair, maybe fading it a little more would be better
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All of those can be easily fixed. And I almost forgot to remove the eyebrow. I drew it in just to get it place properly

Thanks for pointing those out

Post by **torangan** » July 13th, 2007, 6:11 pm

West wrote:[OT]Amusing fact: in Sweden, Malin is a girl's name [/OT]

That's why we made names translateable.

Tamur · Post by **Tamur** » July 13th, 2007, 8:59 pm

And in India, Anya is a boy's name! (or at least I knew one named that)

Someone ought to create a standardisation body for names... or at least submit an RFC!

Post by **torangan** » July 14th, 2007, 9:43 am

There are many names which differ in gender for some country pairs. There's little use in identifying them all. Just make sure they're right for english and correct them in translations. Preferably with something close to the original to allow talking about the campaign in english.

theycallmerooster · Post by **theycallmerooster** » July 14th, 2007, 2:19 pm

Shadow · Post by **Shadow** » July 14th, 2007, 2:25 pm

I still got the impression that the head is slightly too big.
And a chin that can go though walls though the last part is just personal perception so you can pretty much ignore it.

theycallmerooster · Post by **theycallmerooster** » July 14th, 2007, 2:42 pm

Shadow wrote:I still got the impression that the head is slightly too big.

What can I say, I'm 20-- I still got a lot to learn

Here is this better?

As for the facial features- I like them. They arent grotesquely exaggerated and I think it ties the related characters together.

Post by **Baufo** » July 14th, 2007, 2:50 pm

I really like those portraits. I actually love them.
One thing I find great - although I am not sure if it is intended - is that the young Malin looks still a bit "boyish" to me while the old Malin doesn't.

Shadow · Post by **Shadow** » July 14th, 2007, 2:54 pm

theycallmerooster wrote:
Shadow wrote:I still got the impression that the head is slightly too big.
What can I say, I'm 20-- I still got a lot to learn

Here is this better?

As for the facial features- I like them. They arent grotesquely exaggerated and I think it ties the related characters together.

Even not much older I have to learn even more and yes it looks better.

For the last.

Shadow wrote:... The last part is just personal perception so you can pretty much ignore it.

Art is pretty much in the eye of the viewer.

But hey I can be wrong but actual I overall like your art too.

theycallmerooster · Post by **theycallmerooster** » July 14th, 2007, 3:40 pm

Okay here is the Lich portriat.

I have darken volk and drogan up next