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Tychus (scII) 'nose art' girl (translucent nudity)

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#21

The cigar hand pose is definitely better like the previous guy says, it really helps to balance the pose.

The gun still looks really light though, if it were made of metal, she would never be able to hold it like that, not only would her arm not be strong enough, the balance is off, it would fall right out of her hand, even if it were made out of paper.

I’m sure you placed it that way because you are following someone else’s reference, but I wouldn’t be afraid to make it your own a little, it worked with the cigar!

#22

Have to agree with the above; it’s a lovely illo and yet…

Cigar hand is much better, but her other hand looks afraid to get to grips with such a big weapon :wink: not what you’d want at all. That hand looks wrong and gives the gun no mass at all

her right leg, (the one sticking out at us) is kinda odd too, floaty… perhaps you could hook the heel against the edge of the bowl…or angle the hips so that it looks like she’s carrying/balancing the weight of sticking that leg out

Also, her eyes are lifeless, give her a little sparkle and that’ll pick her right up

Little things in the pose that need tweaking, but it’s growing into a lovely piece!
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#23

FANTASTIC !!! :eek:

#24

Lordrych - Thanks, there were some good composition wins by changing the cigar hand to this pose!

JoshuaMiller – Thanks for the comments, and I totally agree on the gun. I originally made the gun separately from the rest, totally discarding the reference for it because I couldn’t work out its shape. The result was an object that does not fit in the scene and doesn’t even look like the ref. I like the way the gun turned out on its own, but I’m of the strong mind now to scrap it entirely and give her a weapon with a grip in a place she can hold it!

At what point does a work stop being based on a ref and instead becomes a vague homage to it? :slight_smile:

RawSunlight – Great comments, thank you. When I go back to this, I’ll probably redo the gun and right arm completely, hopefully it will look less wrong :slight_smile:
The leg is suspended, indeed – I don’t get the feeling of floatyness with it though, which will make it hard to fix (not saying it isn’t there but I’m too close to see it I think). I’ll play around with it and see if I can make any improvement there.
On the eyes, I toned down the specular a lot because it was making her gaze ambiguous at smaller image sizes, Probably toned it down too much. Also, when i adjusted the eye size, I may not have refocused her eyes correctly-- ZBrush’s perspective distortion seems to change drastically when you get close to the model, so I find it difficult to point eyes at the viewer successfully

m0delista – Thank you, glad you liked it!

#25

It looks really good, in fact, for my next personal project i think im going to do a pinup girl like those you would see on an old bomber… The only thing that kinda stands out as distracting to me, besides what others have mentioned, and i know it was probably referenced from the source and also a product of the angle, but the wrinkles on the transparent bra, to me, make her breast look like its deflating… other than that good work, hot sculpt.:+1:

#26

Doc_Holiday – glad you liked it! bomber pinups are called ‘nose art’, which is where I got the title for the thread:) Tons of fun to do!

I hadn’t noticed the deflated look you’re seeing, but I do now :confused:. Its not really the wrinkle I don’t think, its the specular on the material. I adjusted the curve to make it look little more satiny, and in this case the shine seems to be lining up with a wrinkle and giving the impression of an edge where there isn’t one. Plus, since that is an non-retopologized extract from the body mesh, there’s a bunching of small polygons near the nipple area, which also seems to cause ugliness in specular results.

tl,dr – I’ll try some adjustments and see if I can re-inflate her :slight_smile:

#27

i disagree that she is holding a cigar i zoomed in on the original and her left hand is empty. also her hair is darker in the orginal and if u look closly her bra does not go down on the sides it is only held in place by the strings around her neck the dark spot on the orginal is just shaded because of her arm so her side is really just caughr in shadow i hope this helps plz make more drawingsthanks

#28

oh i almost forgot as for the gun my only suggestion is to show her elbow, like have her elbow resting on thechair but visible so that it looks like she has something to rest her arm on but other than that i dont know what might help. oh yeah u should still work on the deflating thing but besides those things she looks smokin hot. definet;y like someone youd find in a futuristic cantina