My first solo portrait

[Aaron Winsett]

Just finished this for my alt.

anything that I could've done better? I did it on paint and its my first try. ;D


By showman09 at 2009-07-27

It looks like his beard may be a little off but I can't put my finger on it...

[Gabriel]

Actually, that looks pretty nice. Vibrant colors and a good job at shading. Perhaps the collar of the armor is a bit too flat. And maybe the beard looks weird because it doesn't seem to stick out of his face. As if it were a very, very thin beard. But it doesn't look bad, really.

[Aaron Winsett]

Thanks. Trying to get the the clothes under the armor to look more vibrant too. Unfortunately, I don't have a clue on how to really work the program and I don't know what attribute on the colors to change.

[Morgoth Animus]

I think it looks cool,but I've never made one myself(could you teach me?)

[Aaron Winsett]

There's a tutorial for it somewhere on this site but all I did on this is find a pic i liked and download it. then I opened that image in Paint, an editing program.

First save an extra copy under a different name. I used the name of my Alt. This copy is so you'll still have the original pix if you mess up to bad.

All I really did was find Seth's portrait from FE8 and recolor it with some extra added. You can find a switch on the bar at the top to zoom in close enough to work. If you look at the pic You'll see many shades of colors that when you zoom out make up the pic. Where ever there was a light blue on Seth's armor I put light red on this guys, just keep matching the colors like that and its pretty simple. Also don't forget your fill tool(paint bucket) and undo (on the top bar) 1 more thing is that I like to use colors that are already present if I can, like around the edges of his goatee. I got that color from the original Seth pic

[Lilith]

oooh, very nice.

[Aaron Winsett]

By showman09 at 2009-07-27

does this look like damaged armor?

Changed Eyecolor to blue and used black for clothes since it doesn't need to be vibrant. as well as the obvious additions...

Edit: forgot. Extra trim on the collar and filled in goatee a little.(It wa not wide enough at the side of the mouth)

[Rayl Torien]

I'd say it does Aaron, seems that small chunks of it have been taken out or the paint was scratched off, depends on how ya look at it. Still, it's quality damage (if that makes sense).

[Aaron Winsett]

Got my next alt prepping too. Here's my first result using Fiora's portrait as a base.

By showman09 at 2009-07-28

And here after a few more changes.

By showman09 at 2009-07-28

;D I put the stars in just for fun but I've been meaning to change Aaron's background to flames for a few days now. Should I use the stars or are they too much?

[Aaron Winsett]

Also Alphonse, Shadow where did you get the support background in your sig?

[Gabriel]

IIRC, there's a tool at www.fe-planet.net that lets you make them.

[Aaron Winsett]

Cool. Thanks Gabriel.

[Aaron Winsett]

Heres the final form of Garnet, my alt I'm working on.

By showman09 at 2009-07-28

Made the eyebrows a little angrier.

[Aaron Winsett]

Ok, so Clair has joined the Inquisitional Army. Now she needs their uniform.

Original:
By Showman09 at 2009-11-02

Etrurian armor:
By showman09 at 2009-11-02

At some point I'd like this to be awarded to her as she moves up the ranks in the army. Kraft's army seems to use black and white for their colors.

By the way, Kraft, we need an official description of the Prophet's heraldic emblem. I'm sure I remember it being described somewhere IC, but I don't remember where.