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Terry's statue

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Andante Junior Member Registered: December 2003 Location: california Posts: 2 users gallery	the statue seemed androgenous, and i wanted to keep him/her that way. i used the brush tool for most of the work. first i softened all the chiselled edges, and got rid of the stone textures with soft brushes. I filled a new layer set to overlay with soft blobs of various yellows and reds, some muted greens, etc. this layer was set at very low opacity. Sort of like a big watercolor wash over a monochromatic drawing. Using the 'wash layer' as the source, I picked up pixels and built up the color, making sure there was a lot of subtle variations. At this point the face looked hard and smooth, like a mannequin, so i added some skin texture (from a different photo) and softened the cast shadow edges, and lightened the shadows somewhat. hair- hair was done much the same way as the rest of the face. I find it easier to do hair in several separate layers. one for the sculpted big shapes, (the major gestures) another for smaller strands, and a couple more for individual stray hairs. Sometimes I do them monochromatically and use a separate layer for color. (paint it on with soft brushes, layer mode set to color).
	· Date: 12/7/2003 · Views: 11881 · Filesize: 48.4kb, 100.8kb · Dimensions: 800 x 1067 ·
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Shalford
Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: Solihull - United Kingdom
Posts: 67

12/7/2003 12:04pm

Absolutely Brilliant!
You have an amazing talent.
Just one very minor point, I don't think we were allowed to use skin textures. (no props)

Steve

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Andante
Junior Member

Registered: December 2003
Location: california
Posts: 2

12/7/2003 1:55pm

oi! my bad. i forgot about 'no props'. i will redo this without the use of imported textures.

Xaran
Senior Member

Registered: October 2003
Location: East Sussex, England
Posts: 533

12/7/2003 2:16pm

I think the props meant actual objects like earrings.

Excellent work - the hair is exceptional.

Christine

TwinbNJ

Senior Member

Registered: February 2003
Location: NJ
Posts: 375

12/7/2003 9:19pm

Stunning - just stunning!

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Jill

TUBORG
Junior Member

Registered: November 2003
Location: Sweden

12/8/2003 2:56am

amazing work
I´m deeply impressed

Abaxoo
Junior Member

Registered: November 2003
Posts: 4

12/8/2003 6:28am

Waoo !!!!
Incredible.

Doug Nelson

Janitor

Registered: August 2001
Posts: 6,301

12/8/2003 8:22pm

Using external skin textures is perfectly ok, I just didn't want sunglasses, cigars, earrings, etc.

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svsg

Member

Registered: June 2003
Location: 13.1358* N, 77.6058* E
Posts: 57

12/9/2003 7:28am

andante, doesn't look like it was derived from an image of a statue.Very natural. Great work

Vikki
Senior Member

Registered: August 2001
Location: Arizona
Posts: 883

12/9/2003 11:24pm

Excellent work. You should make over all the statues. I'd love to see the Statue of Liberty!

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Andante
Junior Member

Registered: December 2003
Location: california
Posts: 2

12/10/2003 2:16am

wow thanks everybody! really great practice on rendering a face. something this close up, you can't really fake it, ya know? i enjoyed working on it very much.

CJ Swartz

Senior Member

Registered: September 2001
Location: Metro Phoenix area, Arizona
Posts: 3,342

12/10/2003 1:20pm

After reading the thread relating your amazing work on this challenge, I had to take a peek -- Wow! Your work IS amazing! Great job, Andante - she looks like a living woman who is POSING for the statue.

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CJ (using CS5 on Win 7 )

Leah

Senior Member

Registered: August 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 518

12/11/2003 3:54pm

Wow - outstanding!

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FrannyMae

Member

Registered: July 2004
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Posts: 92

7/11/2004 8:36pm

Oh my....had I seen this earlier today not sure I would have had the nerve to try this one myself! Thanks so much for sharing your work and some tips!

Timbo

Junior Member

Registered: July 2004
Location: Sheffield UK

8/13/2004 9:16am

You couldn't any more life-like than this. Tops.

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ACTUAL iMAGE

Junior Member

Registered: September 2003
Location: Gurnee, IL
Posts: 4

10/13/2004 5:28am

Almost like a Baroque masterpiece painting. Caravaggio, perhaps. Fabulous!

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