Replying to Face Of A Friend

Hey, nice final touches there mate.

That's some very nice work.

So what is your next project .

Total Effort: 10 hrs
Software: Inkscape

Thats about it. Nothing fancy. Just kept it simple.


And I made it in time. Few more days to go for her birthday.

Looking good!

It's a pity your PC can't handle anymore, I'm sure there's alot you could have done , very nice work.

Ok. This is about it. I do not think I can push my PC any more.



I spent about half an hour on her hair, and there are too many polygons now for my PC to handle. I think I will have to wrap up this project. I will spend about half an hour to one hour more on this, adding some frills and framing it neatly, so that I can give it as a present for her birthday. I will post the finalized one soon.

Software: Inkscape
Total Effort: 9 hours

The images on that link look pretty darn nice.

But to be honest, I think that if Vyoma wanted to, he (well asumming Vyoma is a he lol) could more than likely do just as well.

It's looking great so far, and from the changes iv'e seen it looks more or less like a matter only time to improve on it greatly (meaning whether he knows how to do this or that, he seems to get it going well).

But I don't know any technical detail on all this, it's just what I see lol.

leafbunk, thank you for your suggestions. Yes, I do see that I could have done a little better with use of transparencies - more exactly a linear shading fills over the alpha channel. But as I started off and continued to work on this piece, I sort of set a goal to myself that I would attempt to complete this piece of work with only flat colored paths and patches. If you take a closer look at the piece, you will notice that there are no gradients to this point - and that is a kind of style I am experimenting in this piece.

For now, I am not actually aiming at a photo-realistic image, but a vector caricature that has been given immense effort in terms of details.

And another reason I did not go for gradients - my PC cannot take it. (><) It almost comes to a standstill when I apply even one layer of gradient to any polygon on this piece.

And thanks for that link to that DeviantArtist's gallery. I am checking it out. I think though that the person has been giving tutorials with respect to Adobe Illustrator. (I use Inkscape). I hope I can get some general info on technique from those tutorials there.

I think something that might help your vector portrait have a little more 3-d look to it is to utilize transparency for certain layers. Your shadows seem to be very defined, and if you would/could add more layers and make use of transparency on some, it might blend things a bit better.

This girl (link below) does vector portraits, and she's got a pretty good sized gallery to look through. I think she even offers a tutorial on vectoring, so you might check it out. I'm sure she has some pretty good tips to offer:

http://chewedkandi.deviantart.com/

Well what can I say?

I am honored, Chesso.

Awesome, can't wait.

I showed my mum aswell actually lol, she found it quite impressive aswell, and the way she was talking about it makes you realize just how long it can take to do it.

She's little more artsy then I am, so to speak.

Na. The last update was me working yesterday night. Then I replied to you today morning. Now I am getting ready to go to office. So, did not get time to work on it. I might get a couple of hours to work on it this weekend. I will post updates then.