My Wooden Girl

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final rank: 24 out of 40 entries

Source only;) Everything was made from the varnished oak source picture.
Please don't kill me to bad on the drawing part. I spent hours trying to get the hands and shoes right. I hope you guys like this or at least the idea.
Positive or helpful comments welcome. First attempt at free hand drawing.

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final score: 52.5 %

votes placed: 230

submitted: 28 days ago

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not sexy XD but good work!
(28 days ago)

A lot of work here. Rather stiff pose, but good.
(26 days ago)

Thanks for the comments. I know she looks stiff...but like I said it was my first time drawing in PS and man...was it hard to do the arms and hands. It took me forever. I would like to find a good drawing hands tutorial for PS. If you know of one I would appreciate it.
(26 days ago)

Author, I guess quite a lot will also depend on how your own drawing skills are (and then not only in PS). If you know how to handle that, it shouldnt be much a problem in PS either I guess. If it takes you longer to draw sth from scratch, then dont start from scratch

. Take i.e. a photo from (in this case) a hand, select it and use the selection in a new layer to make the shape for the hand (by filling that selection in that layer). Use a basic skin color. Then go to the real hand, lower opacity so you can still see the hand, go to the filled layer and with burn/dodge you add light+shadow
(26 days ago)

(story continues here)...according to where the shadows are in the original picture. So you use the picture as guideline for what you'd like to make. This is not a tutorial, this is the first thing that came in my mind when you asked the question. I guess there are zillion ways to do it. But this is just one of the many to start and give you an idea of how to fix things. The longer you try, the easier, faster and less guidelines you need. Good luck!
(26 days ago)

Thank you for taking your time to give me some info...

I appreciate it.
(26 days ago)

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