Graphic Stalkers [v1]

J.L.O · July 30, 2021, 7:11pm

That font ain’t impossible to read, and I can read it at thumbprint size.

After judging, I realized that I don’t even pay attention to how small people are seeing it, then picking it out of a bunch of other pictures.

So, look at it at about 1.5 inches tall, not just the full project size. Is there anything that should pop out at that height, to you, that is not?

I’m going to start doing it myself.

And personal preference, the glow of her face, can it shift more to the gold/bronze tone?

selchies · July 30, 2021, 8:12pm

the glow on her face is the model’s makeup i just added highlight to accentuate the makeup she already had on. i’m still a noob at covers so i’m not sure how to shift it to more bronze/gold, but i’ll figure it out.

i feel like there should be something added to the bottom, but when i put smoke it made it look very cluttered

selchies · July 30, 2021, 8:14pm

~~made a matching gif banner~~

J.L.O · July 30, 2021, 8:15pm

Agreed with the clutter.

The problem is that the font graphics are a flat color while everything else is far more variated… but if you try to do it through other means than texture to the letters itself it makes a mess. And the shape of the letters is fancy enough to where you really notice the flat.

J.L.O · July 30, 2021, 8:17pm

See, up close, it works, becuase I can see the way the letters are shifting to smoke. Just small, where I’m picking it out at, it’s very subtle.

J.L.O · July 30, 2021, 8:27pm

Since I can shift colors on my phone quickly, I turned up the saturation on the whole thing by 15 points.

selchies · July 30, 2021, 8:27pm

that’s what i noticed with the flat colours. i added a satin, but couldn’t figure out how to make it look like it wasn’t just grey lines. i wanted to make it look shiny and that was the only way i knew how

J.L.O · July 30, 2021, 8:45pm

I don’t trust my phone to be high quality enough for a large photo edit, on details, but it does show how to work around this. Just sampled Hunt’s color, used a graphite pencil paint brush and shifted the color around to less saturation and brighter, 2, 3 times, to make a little smoke line. I used that to highlight, then dropped saturation, shifted to a slightly more red, and dimmed the highlight on that same doodle to darken it. It’s not crisp to the edge of the lettering. That’s something that could be taken care of in most programs, though.

selchies · July 30, 2021, 8:57pm

omg thank you so much!!

J.L.O · July 30, 2021, 9:00pm

Anything that annoys me, I hand dabble in. Computers allow you to go in pretty close.

For the white, color dabbling would need to be towards a cream, to reflect all that glowing. Slightly towards the lightest lavender for shadows, possibly.