Post by joe on Sept 24, 2013 17:53:15 GMT -5
This is my official submission:
So, as you can clearly tell, due to my ability to perfectly recreate his likeness, that I had the ever so vibrant Ricky. Now, I'm pretty damn terrible at these sorts of things, so when I saw the challenge I kinda freaked out. I immediately went to Ricky's FB page (thank you for no security settings, Ricky!) and scoured his pictures. I wanted to find one of him where he was completely alone. It's actually ridiculous how hard it was to find pictures of him alone. However, I stumbled upon this one! It was perfect. I originally opened Paint and copy/pasted the original picture alongside a blank canvas, and I framed the original picture, then moved that over and started working on that, so I could assure the same size. That was the easy part...
I was using that little ink drop button thing to try and get the same colours in the original photo, but that was pretty much too damn hard. He is pretty red in the original picture, and I thought that looked kinda silly, so I originally made him very... white, borderline yellow. I'll skip all the boring middle details... started with hair, face, glasses, yadda yadda yadda. Anyway, this was the original result (a side-by-side comparison):
I really just needed a way to create shadows and face lines, which was a struggle. I thought he looked like an Asian lesbian, essentially. To fix this issue, I darkened his skin much more, and created custom colours for the lips; I simply took the original colour of the skin and darkened it slightly. I had to draw over the hair (the black marks on the arms) with the new colour to get rid of all the blotchy spots, and then I had to redraw them.
Anyway, yeah. That's it. I just wanted to create a fairly realistic likeness of Ricky with what minimal skills I have. It's not much, but I hope y'all approve! Enjoy. ;-)
So, as you can clearly tell, due to my ability to perfectly recreate his likeness, that I had the ever so vibrant Ricky. Now, I'm pretty damn terrible at these sorts of things, so when I saw the challenge I kinda freaked out. I immediately went to Ricky's FB page (thank you for no security settings, Ricky!) and scoured his pictures. I wanted to find one of him where he was completely alone. It's actually ridiculous how hard it was to find pictures of him alone. However, I stumbled upon this one! It was perfect. I originally opened Paint and copy/pasted the original picture alongside a blank canvas, and I framed the original picture, then moved that over and started working on that, so I could assure the same size. That was the easy part...
I was using that little ink drop button thing to try and get the same colours in the original photo, but that was pretty much too damn hard. He is pretty red in the original picture, and I thought that looked kinda silly, so I originally made him very... white, borderline yellow. I'll skip all the boring middle details... started with hair, face, glasses, yadda yadda yadda. Anyway, this was the original result (a side-by-side comparison):
I really just needed a way to create shadows and face lines, which was a struggle. I thought he looked like an Asian lesbian, essentially. To fix this issue, I darkened his skin much more, and created custom colours for the lips; I simply took the original colour of the skin and darkened it slightly. I had to draw over the hair (the black marks on the arms) with the new colour to get rid of all the blotchy spots, and then I had to redraw them.
Anyway, yeah. That's it. I just wanted to create a fairly realistic likeness of Ricky with what minimal skills I have. It's not much, but I hope y'all approve! Enjoy. ;-)