(Violent) Zombie portrait inspired by DeluxeMan

I have no idea where to post this one, I guess in "people" it is.
I got inspired by DeluxeMan's from hell portfolio...You should all check his web, it is awesome and really worth it.
If you wanna see all the details, just click on the image above and go to "original" high-res image.
C&C appreciated...
cheers

Here is my Zombie:

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/ivolution/59588​10246/

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/ivolution/58903​21299/

This is a very good start, but you didnt started with the easiest concept my friend!

I dont have much time to write, but I will try to be as concise and helpful as I can. Dont take my "dry" comment on a rude side

I think you were going to much in the opposite of the original image and make this concept of image very hard to achieve.

- Day for night.
You changed the time of the day, which means you need to change the whole color palette. (which is not bad)

- Dry model in rain.
That is hard to do. Your model has a dry skin and clothing and you put rain on her, You should stick to a dry environment,
maybe fog will give you the atmosphere you want without the "wet" look to create. Nice detail from the rain on her shoulder btw.

- Lighting bold.
They draw the attention behind your model. You should add rim light around your model's head to integrate those.
But I would lost those if I were you. Same goes for the yellow light, too present and saturated, but dimmed in fog without the lens flare would be even better.
The yellow fight to much with your dominant color: red.

- I prefer by far the original crop.

- The white clouds behind her head is very nice.

- Dont show to much of the Background, keep some mystery with silhouette and contrasted highlight

- Nice black eyes, try those in white at 50% opacity for a fresher zombie!

- you need to paint some specular over the "blood wounds"

keep those coming,
cheers!

^ Very informative!!

DeluxeMan wrote in post #12795517
This is a very good start, but you didnt started with the easiest concept my friend!

I dont have much time to write, but I will try to be as concise and helpful as I can. Dont take my "dry" comment on a rude side

I think you were going to much in the opposite of the original image and make this concept of image very hard to achieve.

- Day for night.
You changed the time of the day, which means you need to change the whole color palette. (which is not bad)

- Dry model in rain.
That is hard to do. Your model has a dry skin and clothing and you put rain on her, You should stick to a dry environment,
maybe fog will give you the atmosphere you want without the "wet" look to create. Nice detail from the rain on her shoulder btw.

- Lighting bold.
They draw the attention behind your model. You should add rim light around your model's head to integrate those.
But I would lost those if I were you. Same goes for the yellow light, too present and saturated, but dimmed in fog without the lens flare would be even better.
The yellow fight to much with your dominant color: red.

- I prefer by far the original crop.

- The white clouds behind her head is very nice.

- Dont show to much of the Background, keep some mystery with silhouette and contrasted highlight

- Nice black eyes, try those in white at 50% opacity for a fresher zombie!

- you need to paint some specular over the "blood wounds"

keep those coming,
cheers!

Ooooh Renaud, now that's a decent comment! Thanx man for your time...definitely not a dry one!
Further down you will see my original Zombie in her natural environment and I think it is enough. I just wanted to practice some PS skills and decided to go for a movie poster or whatever. So I merged more than one exercise in one image and that was maybe too much...
The rain theme was taken from here and for some reason I did not get the wet effect as good as this guy did.
In general...yepp I kinda thought so too, hahaha...The bolts, the yellows etc. True.
I left the BG "clear" and not so mystic so you guys do not focus enough on my zombie and the not soo successful wet look...it did not work.
Anyway, this was the final zombie and I should have stopped here...
Tnx again & cheers
P.S. I did not really understand "the specular over the blood wounds" thing, what does it mean?

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/ivolution/58940​39119/

^ ohhh muuuuch better! I am actually creeped out by it now! Delux man had some great pointers! The original reminded me of a cartoonish movie poster. The revision really brings it to life.

DeluxeMan wrote in post #12795517
- Nice black eyes, try those in white at 50% opacity for a fresher zombie!

My favorite quote of the day

Hahahah, it is a funny quote, hahaha...
Thanx Mike.