Mai Dreamcast

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Mai Dreamcast

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This is still a work in progress but I thought I would share.

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lol derp
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aw, fanboys :>
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Hahaha
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vejita wrote:aw, fanboys :>
To be honest Im more of a Vice fanboy but I wanted to stay away from black paint because my last dreamcast project didn't go to way because there was a lot of black.
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dude.... i don't want to be an asshole here, but this is going really wrong and i would honestly quit sand and start over if i were you.

There are a host of anatomy problems goign on in the body/arms that might be able to be overlooked (mostly in the shoulders/neckline), but the face is just turning into a train wreck. Eyes inparticular. They are too far out on her face. She is starting to look a little froglike. A good rule of thumb is that eyes should be one eye length away from each other. This video should help you out

also a good technique would be to just print out the image as large as it would apear on the dreamcast, then lay a grid on top of it. After that lay the same size grid over the dreamcast. Fill in the corresponding boxes on your dreamcast with the image. It is kinda the poormans way of copying some art. The tighter the grid, the more accurate you are going to get, but don't be afraid to look at the big picture and lay down some sweeping lines across multiple boxes.

In general though, acrylic paint on a dreamcast is never going to look polished and professional. The only way to really do that is airbrushing, and even then it is going to have that airbrushed look to it. You might be better off with wheatpasting the image down to the dreamcast or creating a vinal decal. I've never done either though, so i can't speak for how well it would turn out. Just speculation.
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Ok so she looks a bit like Michael Jackson but I couldn't do any better myself so well done.

Your power button is dirty though :P
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looks pretty good granted the second one is better but its yours and anytime you add a cool custom touch its nice.
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I think it's kind of cool that she is able to look in 2 different directions at the same time..
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Sigh....look you've got a good idea here, and the execution is far better than the last one, but flesh it out a little more before going all out and actually painting it.
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