David Armor

FINISH!

and I must say I am proud of myself ^__^ Not the absolute best I can do (if I did that, the lines wouldn't be there), but the best I can do for this particular style... which I have found myself moving away from. ^{Maybe it's because it's too mixed into the pop culture of America/Japan and I'm someone who tends to lean into the hard/unique stuff that not everyone does :3}

Anyway... here it is Kinga! Time for my full blown judgement. Lay it on me, hun!

Oh... a few notes for you (just in case you want to duplicate it heavily):

For skin’s natural tones, the modes are:

Yellow tone: multiply 30%
Pink tone: multiply 15% (30 if you like extra color or the person is wearing makeup)
Gray tone: difference 15% (or under… it’s strong)

^{The reason for them is blood flow. The pink is the highest while the gray is the lowest. Everyone has it in their skin somewhere. They aren't needed for manga originally, but highly required in realistic painting. I applied them with the brush at 50%... the values above are for the layers}

Lip color has a mode of Linear Burn at 40%. It brings out the brightness of the highlight, but makes the general colors blend with the skin so it doesn’t look like he’s wearing lipstick XD

Green highlight in hair was in a separate layer with Hue as the mode at 100%.

The clothing has certain textures from photoshop to give it extra umph. The metal and enamel in the picture was also made via photoshop, thus no color reference for the two... they are both literally one color that was attacked mercilessly with the dodge and burn tools.

Yes.. I work in both Photoshop and SAI... photoshop for editing/special effect purposes, SAI for sketching/blending purposes. About 3/4 of my work is in SAI, since the blur tool on PS is crap... and the smudge is worse (I can't believe I used to work with the smudge tool like it was my lover! X__X).

I made sure to add the color palette I used for him... every. single. color. Your original colors are in there, but hidden pretty well if I say so myself. The palette can be used for both manga and realistic... I'm (obviously) more realistic, so I demanded the extra truckload of colors.

Well... that's all folks! Give me a critiqueif you wish... I'm up for it.

Jaa Ne!
TLA