A piece of Eye candy for the ladies

[Peter S]

It's been such along time since the ladies have had any eye candy to paint.
So...........

When I saw this I thought of all you deprived ladies at RTP (joking honestly)

Not restricted to the female of the species really.
It's just that it's always ladies getting posted for painting. (mainly by me)
So to add a little balance.
Original
This one's for you all.!!!!

Enjoy

Peter

[palms]

A nice piece of eye candy and one that has hair (sorry)

Palms

[palms]

A thoroughly modern man who knows his place but i will give him a hint wear a pinny when you cook sauasages the fat will burn your chest ! ! !

kitchen image from sxc

Palms

[lkroll]

Despite all that I hear (bald is beautiful and all), I knew woman would rather have guys with hair. Now I know I don't have a chance. lol

[palms]

Originally Posted by lkroll

Despite all that I hear (bald is beautiful and all), I knew woman would rather have guys with hair. Now I know I don't have a chance. lol

Hey there are benefits you know for the ladies , all our hair products last longer, not so much time spent in front of the mirror, so less time in the bathroom, which means more time for us
and it could be worse and you suffer from the dreaded comb over

Palms

[Veralisa]

Well, he's not as cute as my hubby but I gave the kid gray hair like him.
This was really fun...at this point I wish I'd given him a decent haircut. I call this a "MOP" style....aiming for a cross between mod and pop. I had some halftone brushes for soooo long without a proper use for them, until today. I don't know...in actuality I think he's just too cutsey, cutsey. If I were to dragonize him there are no wrinkles to deepen. Thanks Peter for thinking of us (deprived) ladies however. Thanks also to Palms for putting him in his proper place.
Hunk #3 was added after he lost a bit of hair and gained a little weight.

[0lBaldy]

WOW, I should have looked which way this thread was going before I started on the image... Palms that sausage cooking sounds like it comes from a voice of experiance...
Seems I remember there are several males here at RetouchPRO who spend time in the kitchen.. so your render is not that far fetched... (except for the hair)

Veronica I love your conversions to reality!

[lkroll]

Very cool use of halftone blends Vera. Guess I should try an illustration too.

[palms]

Veronica great trio of pictures the half tone brush looks good will have to have a look around for some
like you i think him a bit too cheesy !

Ol Baldy not Personal experience but observation
nice edit there though

Lyle good illustration

Palms

[Veralisa]

OlB, love your technique...texturized gradient? This one looks like a teenagers pinup!

Lyle, he's nice enough but rather subdued for you, no? Go ahead, give him the creepy feather treatment! (just kidding). Actually he's quite tasteful.

Veronica

[lkroll]

Your right Veronica. lol

[MiningArt]

Bare knuckle fighter, Buck. Used Impressionist.

[Veralisa]

Lyle, Yeah, man! Woo-hoo, Featherman!

John, wow, much more manly than the original!

[lkroll]

Now he looks like Vanilla Ice John. lol

[jaybee962]

All I can say is... Eeeeewwww

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by palms1

...but i will give him a hint wear a pinny when you cook sauasages the fat will burn your chest ! ! !

Ah! A cultural education opportunity: In the U.S. the equivalent advice is, "Don't fry bacon naked!" (New marketing slogan, perhaps? "RetouchPRO, where the education goes beyond the arts...")

OK. Back to photo-art...

I found a nice brush image using using keywords "brush stroke" on a search of Google Images. I cropped the image and saved it as a custom brush to be used with Impressionist. Custom brush files need to be white on black background, saved as a flat file in .tif format in Impressionist's \Brushes folder.

Then I opened style Charcoal > Default, displayed the Brushes panel, clicked 'custom,' browsed to/clicked on the new brush file to replace the original, changed the 'coverage' control value to 70%, and clicked 'Save' to create a new custom style. "Coverage" settings of less than 100% and Background = custom (white) leave "white areas."

I duplicated the Background several times and applied a different setting combination on each layer, varying brush size, coverage and/or color controls each time. On some layers I changed the layer blend mode from Normal to Darken in order to "drop out" the white on the Darken layer, thereby revealing the layer below.

Finally, merged all layers, over sharpened, added some saturation and applied Levels for contrast.

[0lBaldy]

LOL, Danny you reminded me of this email I recieved about a "Pinny" (Apron):

The History of APRONS

I don't think our kids know what an apron is.

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, because she only had a few, it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.

It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.

From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.

And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.

Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.

Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.

From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.

They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron..
I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron ..... but Love !!


REMEMBER:
Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.

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Me thinks it was/is probably the same in England

[0lBaldy]

Originally Posted by Veralisa

OlB, love your technique...texturized gradient? This one looks like a teenagers pinup!
Veronica

TY.
The other one is a combination of Snap Art Impasto and Snap Art Watercolor with a blended Rectangle tool with a color target style layer as the background

[kiska]

my my my!!!!