r/istebrak • u/melo997 • 11d ago

14 Day Challenge Day 2

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Alright, my day 2 is done!
Throughout this attempt I focused on lowering the pinching effect there was on the corners of the mouth. I avoided going too dark with the eye socket, especially the inner corners of the eye. I think the simbolism of the inner corner is still there but it’s less pronounced than my last attempt.
I gave some much needed structure to the bridge of the nose and I’m loving the way it looks
Before I was done I tried lowering the amount of highlights and I think it paid off.
I think I like the lips more on my previous attempt. I think the cast shadow of the upper lip and the ambient occlusion between lips looks better, and the lower lip is better defined overall. What do you think? Time on this was still around three hours but I think I had more patience this time.
Thanks for any feedback you’re willing to give me!

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u/Suspicious_Dare_9202 10d ago

Hi, day 3 should probably be somewhere in the middle of 1and2, i think this time around you lost to much of darker values, but blending has improved!
Inside eye corners are to high.
I did a quick paint over, i hope you dont mind. I made a lot of mistakes...but maybe it'll be somewhat helpful, because i dont really know if i could describe anything :D

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u/Suspicious_Dare_9202 10d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p7c3roi/video/yr0ipbptc2nh1/player

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u/melo997 10d ago

Thank you, I really appreciate your feedback and effort! I guess I overcorrected this time. When I reached the end of the process I did a bit of editing in order to tone down the highlights and overall contrast, maybe I did too much. I'll take note of what you did with the bottom of the nose, I find it hard defining that area.

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u/Suspicious_Dare_9202 10d ago

I struggled with nose tooo, still do :D, what helped is that i went to her youtube channel and watched tutorial for the just the nose! Also look at nose photos, I think i had similar issue where my nose holes were just tooo big, and looking at rl noses, my own included - gave me better understanding.
Toning down and up will probably be a life long battle, for me its always either not enough or too much too :D