My Very first Photoshop: Come see

[Dragnskull]

ok guys, yall ignored my first post in here w/ my drawings...well heres one of them (gryphon) photoshoped

i just got photoshop 4 days ago or so, and this is my first...any criticism is welcome,a long with any and all pointers...as you can see i still need practice

 

[COTA-GoD]

nice, must be nice to have a tablet

 

[Arkillo]

Post this is in the right section next time.

Needs a background, and theres no shading

 

[Dragnskull]

...this is gfx area...it hought this was the area to post it... =/

and yeah i was lazy and didnt feel like makin a bg...and as for shading...that might be incorperated into my second attempt at photoshop lol

 

[Kitty]

Well, it's not a bad first attempt at all. I can see some inconsistencies with your shading, and in some places it looks as if you were trying to draw fur but then didn't detail it enough.

I really, really like the colour choices though. ^^ They're so warm and bright, not what I'd expect a gryphon to be coloured like.

The background also looks kinda sparse...well, I'm assuming you weren't quite planning to finish it.

All you need to do at this point is start thinking about being more consistent with different parts of the picture and then try and finish it. ^^

BTW, if you do have a tablet, what kind?

Oh, and some tips for the shading, I'd reccomend for you to mess around with the opacity/flow of the brushes you're using, different settings combined with a pressure-sensitive tablet can get you to get really, really neat effects in shading.

 

[Ashigaru]

White and tan would have been better color choices. Gryphons are part eagle and lion right?

 

[PANDA]

Very Nice. Add More To The backround, But otherwise Its pretty Awesome.

 

[Dragnskull]

leme find my tablet...

Aiptek HyperPen
Model: T-6000U

and yeah...this was done in 2 days, roughly 4 hr periods each (took forever to learn how to do layers)

and yeah i know i messed up the angles on shading a bit... but *shrugs*

the second day i worked on his tail / chest / wings / front legs, and became VERY lazy while doing them.

White and tan would have been better color choices. Gryphons are part eagle and lion right?

whos to say i have to conform to the beliefs of what ppl think a gryphon looks like?