My first face

[Omicron]

Been working on and off this for the last few weekends, following Pig Brain's tutorial

 

The hair is untextured, except for the ponytail which @Ëkvas kindly frankensteined onto this model for me

[Circa]

Looks like a great start!

[Daedra]

It looks a little like Zac Efron..

 

[Omicron]

It looks a little like Zac Efron..

 

Not quite sure I see the resemblance there

[Daedra]

Not quite sure I see the resemblance there

 

Looks like him from the side not the front

[Omicron]

Had an attempt at hair, not sure how good it looks tbh, it's hard when my monitor has loads of vertical lines going up the display. I've also textured the eyes now, (was an edited base one before) and given him a small beard.

 

 

 

I've decided to make him a red head

[AshuraDX]

nice work @@Omicron !

the hair can surely be improved though

 

check this out : (post #107)

http://jkhub.org/topic/2267-my-attempt-on-starkiller/page-6?do=findComment&comment=41496

 

that's how I paint hair textures

[Omicron]

nice work @@Omicron !

the hair can surely be improved though

 

check this out : (post #107)

http://jkhub.org/topic/2267-my-attempt-on-starkiller/page-6?do=findComment&comment=41496

 

that's how I paint hair textures

Thanks! Could you send me that brush, or one online which is similar? I use gimp, and the default brushes are quite limited in range, but I can install and use PS ones

[AshuraDX]

@@Omicron aaaaah I doubt that that works

I think this brush is hardcoded into photoshop, it does not use a stamp as other brushes it simulates a real brush instead so it must be some kind of script that dynamically changes the mask while painting :/

 

you could also try this : http://www.poopinmymouth.com/process/hair_tutorial/hair_01.htm

[Omicron]

Hmm, I'll browse a bit on deviant art, as gimp does have a massive list of brush dynamics that affect the brush depending how I move my mouse, but most are designed with a tablet in mind, as I can't seem to get some to work

[AshuraDX]

@@Omicron WAAAAAIT you are not using a tablet ? wow

[Omicron]

Yep, just use a mouse

[Circa]

The hair should be pulled into the ponytail.

[Omicron]

That's the sort of look I have planned for it. I found some hair brushes, but they are more tablet aimed, so I might try to make one based off of some I saw and play around with the Brush Dynamics to get the desired effect

[NumberWan]

I feel this one could be made into an excellent model of Exar Kun, including him at younger age. Light Side/Dark Side.

[Omicron]

I'm wanting the hair to have a slicked back look, but this might just look to similar to what I had before

 

 

 

I thought of another way of making the hair though; using the paths tool to make all the strands and make a stroke path from it with a brush, and then fill in the gaps under it with either more paths, or some other form of texturing.

[AshuraDX]

needs some distortion around the edges, short fuzzy hairs sticking out

and some skin showing through

[Omicron]

Redid my hair again, and faded it around the edges a bit so some of the skin shows through

 

 

Still need to fix up my mask on it a bit on the edges in places

[AshuraDX]

you did such a great job on texturing the beard and that hair looks pretty sloppy

[Omicron]

So would you suggest I try texturing the hair in the same way as I did for the beard? My feeling is that it would look too much like one solid block of colour from a distance, which was what I was NOT trying to do when I did that hair.

[AshuraDX]

atm the single hairstrands are to thick, this is not bad for a basis - now go ahead and paint over that with a finer brush and bring some color variation to those thick strands

[Omicron]

Better? (Can ignore ponytail, that is the original texture which I've edited)

 

 

[Zappa_0]

looks really good!

[AshuraDX]

kinda, still not perfect but it's a step forward

[Omicron]

Updatez, looks better now, I'm certinally more happy with it than I was

 

 

 

Need to fix some of the colouring/lighting on the back though, by the top