Well, sure gold comes in different values, but your armor still looks like flat synthetic material. You should play around with the specularity and eccentricity of your material, also don't forget to convey reflection light.

 

That's a medal (Toliman, Roman-Celtic mythology) I've done a year ago for a buddy, and although it's completely done in Maya, it should give you an idea of how much properties a material really consists of.

 

Well, I am a newbie in graphs, and I can max. make it a bit darker

 

 

can't do effects like that yet

Don't worry, some day you're gonna be a master. Just keep practicing on it.

I am realy not sure why you say it doesn't look golden. 

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Please explain what exactly is the problem with it so I can correct the picture.

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It is golden color, but doesn't have the right shading. Your shading is diffuse, you need to add more specular reflection. Like this or this. Notice, every image of gold you posted has reflections.

 

 

Argh. Morgoth beats me to it.

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Diamond, your avatar causes dizziness to me!

Ah, I knew it would have some impact one day. (w00t)

I hope this is better (I use Photoshop CS2 but still new to me, and no 3D graphs)

 

 

 

 

But now I really have to go sleep :ph34r:

Gute Nacht Jorian! Tr

Looks good, but that dark background makes the armor loud, if that makes any sense.

1) Hey, really impressed, some very nice work.

 

2) I tend to prefer more neutral backgrounds for game portraits, as well, although as art on it's own I like the fancy backgrounds. Some of those would make good desktops if altered.

 

3) The retouched 'gold' looks a lot better. The first was too flat-yellow. The 2nd has better shadings and a better 'gold' color vs. simply yellow, to me.

 

4) I also think the dark background is a bit too much contrast to the gold, however. Part of this may be because his head is so low in the picture. If there was less space between his head and the top, the background might not be as distracting - course then you couldn't see much of it, either, heh. IMO, I think it looks better overall in terms of portrait use to have less space around the face/body, like the 1st and 2nd one you posted.

Keldorn looks good with those backgrounds. I don't like neutral backgrounds.

Wow, these are awesome.

TOday I don't have too much time, so I just played around and tried something different, this is the result:

 

 

 

What do you think?

I'm not sure, I feel like it misses something.

Oh boy. The face sucks I think, but anything else looks okey dokey. Well, except the girlish color of course. And what's that gigantic p....ehhh thing in front of the mouth?

That one's a bit on the weird and wild side, yes. :D I don't get the mouth cover either - is it supposed to be a mask?

The eyes look like something Terry Gilliam would paint. :D

How horrid.

I said I played around...I guess parts of it are nice but it just doesn't fit together

 

PS: yep, that was meant to be a mask. "

It's like a bizarre NWN Hallmark Valentine card.

It's like a bizarre NWN Hallmark Valentine card.

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Hmm...I guess I have to swap the cystalball for a bloody heart, but its makeable. :D

Hmm...I am working on mostly original pictures now, but I still remake some other ones.

 

See Imoen, a the new Thieves Guild Leader of Neverwinter (and Harper), and Clara, cleric of Sune*

 

 

 

PS: as usual, both aren't ready yet, they are at 90% or what fully finished.

Pretty cool.

I like Clara's hair, but somehow I'm not happy with the shadowing of her, wanna do something to make it more similar to the shadows on Imoen, Keldorn, or Edwin.

 

Any suggestions/ideas how I should do that?