Gil Elvgren Master Study (Looking for Feedback)

tsmith3d

Wanting to do more master studies to improve
For this study I chose Gil Elvgren (some pieces NSFW if you search him)

I always seem to choke on smiling faces.  Want to improve so if anyone wants to give any feedback/critique I would greatly appreciate it!  

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Worked on a pose with zbrush and photoshop.

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Nother pose study

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braintrain

Wow beautiful work! She looks very pretty and believable! You don´t want to share how you made that nice painting effect ?:) Did you brush over it or used shaders?
The only remark I have is for first pose. Her breasts look like placed in bra.

tsmith3d

Thank you:)
Yeah I just render in zbrush with the skin shader to get that nice ambient clean skin effect and go over it in photoshop with lost edge brushes.  

It's funny you mentioned the breasts on the first one, I was actually copying the time period when they had those old cone shaped bras that would shape breasts in that way haha 

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Kel-Shaded

Wow this is really great work dude,
the smiles read like someone who's not used to being in front of a camera, but artistically awesome

tsmith3d

Yeah smiles are the hardest thing for me to do it seems, I just need to read up more on how to understand the anatomy of a smile while not being overbearing with complexity.
Here is another render of the most recent one, tried to take some of the splotchy values out

braintrain

tsmith3d said:

Thank you:)
Yeah I just render in zbrush with the skin shader to get that nice ambient clean skin effect and go over it in photoshop with lost edge brushes.  

It's funny you mentioned the breasts on the first one, I was actually copying the time period when they had those old cone shaped bras that would shape breasts in that way haha 

Thank you for telling me! The effect is really nice!
I knew that women were wearing those pointy bras back then but I didn´t know this would shape their breasts... sounds very painful if you ask me^^ But then nothing to criticize for me I dig your work

leandrojsj

Great work

tsmith3d

Little more heavy on the painting here than the sculpting.

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Some quick color studies

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Aluvay

@tsmith3d wow man these are really cool. Nice job combining 3d and painting. I do like the ones where you paint over them more, the combination of hard edges soft edges is working nicely.

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tsmith3d

Some pose studies, sculpted, rendered then painted over in photoshop.

jacky_ruan

what brushes are you using for that? i love how statuey that looks