Hey Slash, thanks alot for the write up and paint overs. The face does indeed look very crazy in comparison to your revision haha, i will be sure to fix it up as best i can. Unfortunely, the mesh was made following a "tutorial" given to us from our lecturer, so the topology has to match that of the tutorial (meaning i…
Looking great :) I suggest trying to go in and use harder edged brushes and working with higher contrasts/different values. Have you tried pigbrains tutorial?
Just wanted to show you what some tonal variances does to skin: Blueish black under the eyes, reds under the nose, grey 5 o clock shadow, and some yellows under the mouth. I added a bit of orange on the fringes of everything to simulate the sub surface scattering, and added a very very very slight grain (not film grain,…
Specular on the planes that are directly exposed to light only. EVERYTHING you see is a reflection -- specular is just the brightest of the reflections. In direct light you get the most information, including little textural highlights. As the surface recedes to shadow, you get less information. You are not going to have a…