I was messing with Painter tonight and came up with a look I kinda liked...

Started out in Painter 8:
* Opened grayscale image
* File > Clone
* Clone image: Select all on Canvas, Edit > Copy, Edit > Paste to duplicate Canvas.
* Right-clicked on the new layer's name to engage the Layer Attributes dialog; entered 0 in both Position Values boxes to align the newly pasted layer.
* Engaged Impressionist > Pencil Sketch > Detailed Monochrome
* Created a new layer
* Chalk > Square Chalk with clone color setting turned on, converting the brush to a cloner. Also used Cloner > Soft Cloner on this layer to restore some eye detail.
* Saved, closed and opened in Photoshop to finish up.

Final Photoshop layer stack top to bottom:
* 3 pxl frame. Edit > Stroke 3 px, Inside, using black
* Layer of white with hide all layer mask. Added back highlights by airbrushing white using Chalk 36 brush.
* Layer of black with hide all layer mask. Added back shadows by airbrushing white using Chalk 36 brush.
* Corel Painter rendered layer. Chalk > Square Chalk.
* Duplicate of original Background to which Impressionist > Pencil Sketch > Detailed Monochrome was applied in Painter.
* Original Background (turned off).

20-20 hindsight.
* I should have done a better job of giving more definition to the eye on the left (her right eye) before engaging in the transformation.

...but I liked the effect of painting the chalk strokes on top of the Impressionist rendered pencil sketch lines.

I like this a lot Danny, thank you for the details. Have printed them and will give this a go soon. Did you use your Pen for this.... :grin: ?

Not yet. Taxes done, though! - djr

Cheers

I didn't move out of Painter with this as I ended up working on the wrong layer at one point and needed to salvage what I did. This brought me to the Blenders and spending quite some time blending the hair and face in particular. I'm a little happier with my work on the face which is always difficult. It was a good exercise with the Blenders though and appreciate the nudge to try this out.

very good both of you, interesting style, thanks for sharing the technique Danny.

Hi Junipaire...thanks for viewing and commenting, much appreciated and a BIG welcome to RP. :wink:

Nice (what looks like) Blender > Grainy Blender strokes, Neve. I like this effect a lot.

See reply above to your question. :)

Yes, grainy blender it was but also Goauche ? on the hair. I didn't dislike the idea/use of the Impressionist layer. In fact, I much prefer having something to bite into anyway rather than a blank white canvas! Because of my errors with layers, I lost the detail of the Impressionist layer in the process.

Would you tell me which painter your using please?

Great work Danny!

8............. :wavey: