Night Elf

[rober artua]

Hello this is my first digital painting It has some mistakes in proportions but It is still quite interesting I think . Anyway I hope you will enjoy it

 

[TheToastedChicken]

Looks really great but I think you should move the ears a little bit higher and theres something with the left eyebrow.

 

[LiOneSS]

oh yea, i remember seeing this before, nice work, only the left eye is a bit weird

 

[Squiggy]

It looks kinda nice
Good color choices here.
But, as a tip, I personally think, that the ear's too long and it's end a bit too pointy.
Maybe you could round it up a bit?

 

[rober artua]

Thank you for your comments and suggestions ! They are all valuable for me and I certainly do as you say but in my next art

 

[~Void~]

The hair looks too smudgy and blurry. You could sharpen it, and also adding some definition of the hairs.

Actually, the whole thing is pretty inconsistently blurry. The eyes and detailed features on the face are just right, but the hair is blurry and the ears are REALLY blurry, and they also look kinda blotchy. I guess the eyebrows could be a little more like this: \_ rather than this: \ (not exactly that angle because it looks like shit, but you get what I mean). Right now they don't look like they are attached to the face.

I also pointed out some anatomical issues in the pic below.

Note that these are just improvements, the picture in a whole is very nice.

 

[rober artua]

~Void~

Thanks man Really useful comments but This was done a long time ago and I am not sure I will update this pic . But I ll remember your words when I ll be making next painting As you said there are some anatomical issues well for me it looks no like it is not even a face of real human I am studying anatomy atm .

 

[Nudl9]

I think you did a quite good job, even tho it looks messed up.
Human anatomy is really hard (especially the face) to learn.

 

[Archian]

Nice, for a first.

 

[rober artua]

Nudl9

Yep and especially Female head anatomy is very hard because men"s face has more noticeable land marks . But the female face is almost soft and simple but also beautiful IF some small thing is wrong then it will ruin whole likeness Even Andrew Loomis suggests to learn face land marks from old ppl because they have very noticeable ones

 

[Nudl9]

Yep and especially Female head anatomy is very hard because men"s face has more noticeable land marks . But the female face is almost soft and simple but also beautiful IF some small thing is wrong then it will ruin whole likeness Even Andrew Loomis suggests to learn face land marks from old ppl because they have very noticeable ones

y agree

 

[Linaze]

I like it, just like you said, some proportions are wrong, still awesome. I like the colors very much, also.

 

[rober artua]

NIGHT ELFS FTW !

I ll add more facial features soon .
Oh and concept by Mighty Samwise

It is so hilarious that I spent way less time on this head than on the first 2d image and this is way too better And now I can turn it in different angles and just paint over and it will be like 2d painting or I can paint texture in Zbrush whatever I can even make it low poly but or I can use this head as texture Whoah ! 3D Rocks!

 

[Nudl9]

Looks like cenarius

 

[TDR]

Holy shit, the sculpt looks amazing. Great job! (you should put that as your avatar instead of that silly unfinished skull)
I don't like that drawing at all though.

 

[rober artua]

Yep it looks better than the skull I have started adding finer details and breaking symmetry but I am afraid I have no time to finish it soon . I am too busy with my English

Here is latest update and I hope I ll finish it in the next month

 

[TheToastedChicken]

gl with the english

 

[TDR]

It's simply amazing man. The neck seems a bit weird though, but it's really awesome overall.

 

[TheToastedChicken]

what program do you use?

 

[rober artua]

Yep there is a lot to do on this sculpt but a bit later The very base topology mesh was done in max but it could be done in every 3d app as well . Then it was brought to Zbrush but U can make sculpt in Mudbox as well The topology mesh is very simple and now I can sculpt different heads using same base mesh . My Female head had same base mesh .

 

[rober artua]

Here is low poly head of this elf (482 polys)
The head on the left is also low poly but with normal map applied

Just wanted to show u the power of normal maps I hope they will be available in SC2

 

[TDR]

hmm, for some reason that normal map doesn't look so good...

 

[rober artua]

to TDR : Of course it wont be as good as the base mesh but it also depends on rendering engine . I could get better results for example in max .


I was a bit bored with my English studies and decided to show you something cool
FIRST of all Do not wonder why the texture has some lines on it . IT is all because I did not do manual unwrap . What I did is just one button click automatic unwrap in Zbrush . IT works fine in max render but it wont work as fine in Wc Engine but it is not a problem I could make manual unwrap I just do not want to waste my time I am not making any models here . I just want to show you how u can use Zbrush to make ur Models .

So after I sculpted this head which took me about 5 hours , I just made Normal map with one button click . Here it is :

It is hard to see anything since I used automatic tile unwrap method but normally you could unwrap it so that you will be able to see it and u will be able to edit it and use as your base for the texture . For this particular case I just made another layer filled purple colour in soft light mode and got this :

It is so funny . U can get different results with different levels

I have showed to you the base mesh in previous post but let me do it again but with cage :

482 polys .

Here is SAME mesh but with texture :

Cool huh ? This is only normal map and simple colour ! (rendered in max)

Here is render in Wc3 engine :

As you can see there are some lines because of the automatic unwrap , but if u make normal unwrap there wont be any lines visible So IGNORE THE LINES !!!

Finally I would like to add that this was just a presentation of normal maps power and intro to one part of the next generation character pipline I am not encourage anyone here to use this technique but just want you to know more about game dev

The base model is around 2 000 000 polys and the low poly is exactly 482 polys
Although so detailed face is pointless in WC but you could use it as portrait for example The making time is almost same I think . Some ppl make fully rendered models in four days !

P.S. I have also included the head in MDX format so u could play with it The poly count is 482 polys

 

[Hawkwing]

Hello this is my first digital painting It has some mistakes in proportions but It is still quite interesting I think . Anyway I hope you will enjoy it

Could use some work here and there, as many have said before me.

NIGHT ELFS FTW !

I ll add more facial features soon .
Oh and concept by Mighty Samwise

It is so hilarious that I spent way less time on this head than on the first 2d image and this is way too better And now I can turn it in different angles and just paint over and it will be like 2d painting or I can paint texture in Zbrush whatever I can even make it low poly but or I can use this head as texture Whoah ! 3D Rocks!

Nice! This is very well done, but the hair looks really unfinished.

 

[SuPa-]

I'd suggest actually UV Mapping the low poly mesh yourself, instead of tiling it in ZBrush like that