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EDITING because i knew i forgot something. so, as... weirdly blunt as the anon from the last post was, any critique is a critique worth looking into and i went ahead and did this just to see how it turned out:

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they'd be slightly more expensive than the ones offered above ($1/10 DW Points to $1.50/15 DW Points depending), but if anyone wants something colored like this you can go ahead and request it in the post!

Edited 2013-04-04 04:09 (UTC)

Whoa tone down the blush and gloss holy shit that is not natural even for the animes

I actually really like your less detailed icons.

oh gosh i'm so used to coloring my own stuff i go into super high overlay glossy mode by default, but i'm glad you like my simpler icons!

i toned it down to make it a little softer here. hopefully that's a little less eye searing, anon?

It still looks pretty unnatural - maybe if you used a color closer to the tones for the rest of the face? Make it look a little more blended and natural?

I do really like the hair.

thanks, anon! i like how the hair turned out, too, some details to definitely work on aside.

not sure how much of an improvement this is, but i changed the colors to something more brownish to fit and removed the shadows that didn't stick to the original crop like the anon below suggested. hopefully it's less garish now.

she still looks like a corpse

or like somebody punched her in the face

tone down the blush jfc

look at the icon you're using in this comment, and look at the whore's paint you've put on your sample. see the difference?

i think its the color itself. or at least the saturation of it. it almost looks like she's bleeding.

that said, gorgeous icon!

yeah, the more i edit it the more i notice the original colors were absolutely awful. this is a huge reminder to self to never color things like these like they're on super overlay mode, yikes!

but thank you, anon! i will hopefully walk out of this thread knowing how to chose decent colors.

aaa, now it's perfect. /o/

Why is everyone a balloon? I don't get it. Skin never has such a plastic-y unnatural shine to it. You've taken the time to add that highlight but you don't examine your light source and apply it appropriately to eyes and hair? And in the "new" icon, why is she fuschia? Where are her pupils? Why did you make the clean lines of the original scan into those muddy, pixelated ones? Why do the shadows ignore the contours of her face? Why do the orange streaks in her hair defy the light and shadows in the rest of it? Why did you get rid of her eyelashes?

I'm not actually trying to be a dick; I'm genuinely trying to understand what your method is here. You advertise these as simple icons, but simple would have been preserving the lineart and following the previous patterns of shadow, not adding superfluous and unattractive details like the balloon shine and extra eyebrow, and omitting the random orange hair strands. And, also, coloring her a little closer to a normal, human skintone.

they're actually advertised as simple because i originally only had the top three icons in there, and didn't really change the subject after editing. i also softened the coloring a bit here, but that doesn't really fix those points you mentioned about light sources since all i did was tone down the "fuchsia" tone. the lineart's pixelated since i always sharpen it before coloring so the lines are a bit more defined, which... looks pretty nasty full size, now that you point it out! as for the other edits, i was trying to color pb icons for a character and this one just turned into the poor unfortunate test subject.

and don't worry about sounding harsh, anon! your points are very valid, and i did post an icon with a coloring method i'm trying out for the first time to an anon comm.

you could use levels or curves to make the lines more black/defined?

i don't think your coloring is bad but i also think there is something to be said for preserving the original look of the character. i don't know the character but it looks like she's supposed to be a fresh-faced young girl who doesn't wear makeup, like a lot of anime characters, so the red glossy lips and cheeks and black eyebrows may not be as appropriate.

and uh now i notice that it's for an oc, whoops, so the last part of my comment may not be so applicable. but it looks like you're using shiny red facial features to add dimension to the icons (like the bright red noses that are popular on tumblr) and i don't think it's necessary. your simple icons are actually quite nice.

the version of photoshop i have doesn't have curves, but i can definitely experiment around with levels to see how it goes. thanks for the tip, anon!

and, that might... be due to the fact that i spend a lot of time on tumblr, but i've toned it down to what i hope is a significantly more natural color over here. i'm really flattered you like my simpler icons, though!

i'm not here to commission anything, but i just wanted to let you know that i think your simple icons are pretty (i really like how you colored the hair in the first example) and also that you're a rad person for taking all of this critique so well!

thank you, anon! i really like getting constructive crit, so i'm actually super happy overall about the helpful advice i've gotten in this thread.

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