Breasts [Warning: Nudity.... obviously] Updated!

[[Cameron]]

Hey guys,
Going for a cartoon-ish sort of look, hence the flatness of colors, but I still think I'm shading quite shittily. This is based off a reference photo, and shading is where shading should be, I just don't think I shade that well, mostly just relying on burn and dodge, as I'm not sure on how to do it painting wise. Any tips would help, also if anything you see is glaringly wrong please inform me


Cheers,
Cameron
ps. did this on my tablet if you're wondering.

--Update: See bottom post

[Evil]

Well, um, it's sort of hard to critic. What are you looking for help on? I mean, it's cartoony and it looks okay. Mind posting the reference, I guess?

[Oliwerko]

I think it looks OK for cartoony use.

Hope the black thing is not a pirate beard, hehe.

[Andail]

The outlining is ok, in its simplicity, although the nipple is angled quite strangely...the colouring, though, seems very unfinished. Did you have any plan for the colours? They look very random, to be honest.

[[Cameron]]

Well what I'm looking for is help with shadowing and colours. I'm having intense difficulty with those two, I started intending it to be realistic, but somehow it started heading in the wrong direction and I decided to go with it, but what I'd really like to do is head back in a more realistic direction. As for the simplistic linework, very much the same reason, I couldn't get the nipples to look decent, and decided I could achieve it better with a more simplistic linework and block coloring. Anyway, this is the reference image,
Linky: http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/bbreastss.jpg
All help is appreciated. And apologies for the delay, I've not been home for 5 days.

--edit: sorry SSH

[Jens]

Hey - if you want to take pictures of warm skinny tones with you digicam, try to disable the flashlight and use a lot of warm (indirect) light-sources to light the body (like shiny golden tinfoil). The blue tone of the flashlight does not give a very erotic impression and probably is why you picked that weird violet tone in your drawing.
The flashlight is too intense, too, creating strong shadows and extremely bright highlights on objects that are close to it (see the very bright, white spot on her right breast).

For the rest I can't say much. I think it's just painting practice that you need (getting a feeling for curves, lines, forms, volumes and proportions). Look closer where there are shadows and where there are highlights. And blend the colours properly into each other, because as it is now, I only see different stripes and spots on the body, but no fluent skin color tone with different shadings depending on the light. (I tried to do a painting using your reference, too (with and without the flashlight effect). Perhaps with its help you can see what I mean.)

Oh - and don't use the burn and dodge tools because it just produces darker or brighter spots of the same color tone, but shadows and highlights and mid-tones usually look different. Highlights are a mixture of the basic color of the surface and the light source's color; shadows usually tend more into the blue/purple color range (also depending on the surface's color).

[Evil]

Jens hit it on the head. The perspective is a little wonky too, so that's not helping much.

But hey, you got to take an up close picture of a boobie. Awesome.

[SSH]

Also, please link to images rather than embedd them, so they don't pop up at work when I look at "Recent posts"

[Stupot]

I'm a bit concerned by your model's lack of a left nipple...

[[Cameron]]

I tried again, this time paying more attention to the shapes, and using a more natural palette, what do you guys think?