Well done, high mark. Only one thing that I noticed, there is a weird green spot on her head (top right), seems like it needs some retouching.

Yup, I see it...NOW. Thanks!
It's late, and my eyes are crossing tonight. Will fix it in the morning. Thanks again!

U did great job author...with few minor tweaks this can be perfect...Mikael is right about upper right part and maybe u could use smudge tool to create few hairs that out of the hair line to achieve more natural and realistic look...also just an idea maybe u could create thing that Japanese woman do with the lipstick just in the middle of the lips...

Great, Colection.

sbobet

I contemplated giving her the "full Geisha" makeup, with the snow white foundation, and Geisha "experience" shape (did you know that the size and shape - top, bottom, or both) signify the age and experience of the Geisha?), but felt that would be too far from the "ethnicity."

Hair is SUCH a complicated thing to chop well. Too smooth and it looks cut and paste...I gave her some loose hairs on the RH side, but the ones on the left just didn't look natural...I'll try again.

Thanks for your comments!

Great transformation & SBS...GL author!

Wonderful creation author! greatly!

wow! great job.

great job on the girl love it! It I want to be picky I see that the background looks a bit unnatural. First of all there aren't any shadows under the trees and secondly, more important in my point of view, the very closeup of the face does not allow the background to be in focus. It's unnatural to the human eye, if I look at somethin that close, I see the background out of focus.

It's an "HDR" (High Definition Resolution) shot, so the focus is the same near and far, and the photographer was using a strong umbrella reflector light, so the trees had no shadow...

I do appreciate your comments, thank you for taking the time to point these things out. I learn things I need to improve with every entry, thanks to fellow members like you!

uhm, HDR has nothing to do with the focus, it simply means bringing out details in the very dark and very light areas, thus producing an image with rich details in all light levels. Just for clarification.

Thanks for the clarification...
Don't deal with a sense of humor much, do ya? lol!

c'mon, are you kidding?

Pretty good , right side of the nostril is puffy and there is a lack of definition around the eye tear section.color is slightly washed out but I think I still like it. good luck.

This is well done... but... Asians usually have brown or black eyes...

I know, but then it would not have been much of a manipulation, as I could have just replaced the face with an Asian one...

Great work ! Good luck author !

Congrats!

Congrats, very nice work

this is cool.. especially the work you've done with the hairs..

Dramatic change, nice work!

well done and nice blend, hi res is still small though.

I recommend making her irises round. That got lost in the reshaping. Good luck!

Wow! Love it, it looks as she is truly oriental! Best of luck!

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thank you to withdraw my images on this website

KatanazStock, assuming that you're the same person as the one from DA, you'd know that on the front page of your profile you allow people to use the stock outside DA. I cant say anything about the 1st point, but the 2nd one shouldnt be an issue here.
Author, good luck!

EDIT: KS, feel free to define "commerical and/or profitable use", s'il vous plaît

Katanaz writes:
USING OUTSIDE OF DA:
As of 28th of July 08, you now have permission to use our stock OUTSIDE of DeviantART!! This is brilliant news, and I'm sure many of you agree as in the past we'd sadly turned down hundreds of requests.

However, when using our stock outside of DeviantART you MUST include credit and a link back to our direct profile page here on DeviantART.

Note: katanaz`s last visit to deviant art was 28 weeks ago, the real katanaz would have checked thier DA account for notes before writing this garbage!

I will assume that your lack of knowledge about your own rules implies that you are an imposter!.....A fellow pxl member trying to have entries removed to make way for your own perhaps? Well I`m sure the mods will have access to IP address`s & lets hope you haven`t already tried to red flag this image under your own name, whilst using the same uneducated reason for removal...that would be a telling clue wouldnt it?

Well done on the lips but it's a little bit blurry on the left, try to fix that ! However nice job on the skin color. Good luck author.

i dont think the plumping of the lips was necessary, it doesn't look as natural, good job on the color though

The eyes are a bit too bright and unnatural looking, and the nostril fold is a bit too thin, but I agree that the skin tones are very nice.

Doesn't look as natural compared to what? The original Caucasian? I looked at several pictures of pure black African women (not mixed race blacks) to determine the differences between Caucasian and Negroid features before making the changes I did. A criticism of the jaw angle would be appropriate - I don't feel I have that quite right; it doesn't protrude enough.

Mossy, I thought of you as I dealt with the eyes! I actually toned them down and "grayed" the whites from the original, believe it or not. They are not brightened in any way. Just darkening the skin made the eyes pop. I'll try to over compensate some more.

Very beautiful! Truly lovely work! I love this color a lot on her!

Nice job here, the color of skin and hair is very convincing,The eyes look fine to me...best part next to the lips, good job on those BTW.

Great job, author, especially on her lips.

Very nice ... I like it ....
Good Luck Author

I think she is just a touch too dark

thanks kellie! i lightened her up a bit

& thank you bitmap for the fav!

Good job, I like what you did with the lips

The new her looks very South Asian. [Needs to be viewed in hi-res to evaluate properly, IMO.] Her face seems darker than her body, however—and her left-shoulder highlight seems a tad too strong. Also, I don't get why her pearls and shadow also changed along the way (and what is that rain-drop-shaped blotch in the upper left corner?). I wish the SBS explained what was done at each step

The whites of the eyes are too bright. The rest looks good.
(Pearls could be restored to the originals too...).

very nice author
you got realistic and beautiful result

nice author...

nice work, i would try to do the background same as original too..there is still time..gl

nice work

the problem with conversion is that certain facial features are unique for certain ethnicity.. change the skin-tone technique is great... but if you can up that by changing the features to look like a black lady... it would be fantastic

anyways.. this is a great chop

aheman, i was not trying to make her black. im not going to change the face by modifying it..it will look too fake. thanks for your suggestion though.

Author, if you are "not trying to make her black," then what ARE you attempting in this contest? The theme is "ethnicity," not just "heavy tan color."

Ethnicity goes beyond making the skin dark and the white of the eyes too bright...

The contest description clearly states:
"A beautiful way of exploring different facial features."

What features are you exploring with this entry???

I love what you did author, a little dark thought but it looks beautiful and well done! Best of luck!

with only her skin darkened, she could be Indian. IF in fact the author wanted her to look black/african-american, the nose would probably have to be widened a touch and the lips larger. The way it is though, she looks Indian/Persian or something like that. She is beautiful and the shading is wonderful.

">Let me know if you use my image.
>When using our stock you are agreeing that the work it is involved with, will remain ONLY on DeviantART and may not be placed on any other website
you may not use the stock images for website templates, or for commerical and/or profitable use"
thank you to withdraw my images on this website

KatanazStock, assuming that you're the same person as the one from DA, you'd know that on the front page of your profile you allow people to use the stock outside DA. I cant say anything about the 1st point, but the 2nd one shouldnt be an issue here.
Author, good luck!

EDIT: KS, feel free to define "commerical and/or profitable use", s'il vous plaît

I believe it would be considered profitable use since this contest pays "1st place: $5
2nd place: $3
3rd place: $2" to the winners

i think the face is too smooth around the eyes and the skin tone difference on the forehead is distracting...great take on the theme though author! i'll hold my vote

very well author like it

The skin tones are all over the place, and the eyes are a bit too dark in contrast, like he's wearing very heavy eyeliner.

Yes Mossy as usual he is.

The hair unfortunately was all hand drawn as there doesn't seem to be many salt and pepper Chinese men
And for MossyB this is all Obama's skin, check his photo in hi res, he has a rather bad complexion

Sorry author, but no. You've made some color adjustments to Obama's skin, resulting in a weird pinkish patch on the side of his nose and his cheek, and have lost some of the cyan tones on the face, while keeping them on his ears..."Bad complexion" is one thing, inconsistent coloring is another.

As for the hand drawn hair, it looks it. There is no skin visible at all beneath the eyebrows - Even the thickest hair shows small bits of the face along the edges - and the color of the hair on the head (as well as the eyebrows) shows far too little gray to correspond with the basically white beard...

Good attempt author, the idea is great but the blending needs a little more work!
Best of luck!

Where does the hairline come from? Seems like a SBS is needed here...

Great entry, I think the blending is fine....and I believe the hair is drawn (drawn well too) only nitpick would be that I would have prefered the hair to be more grey. Best of luck author & well done