Creative interpretations: Loneliness

[SWEngineer]

Another great thread to revive. Anybody know what happened to Fluff? He did some great work here, but I haven't seen his name on anything recent.

Started w/ Curves and Hue adj. layers to create the base image. Did the ColorDodge sketch thing except ran AddNoise and ColorPencil filters on the (inverted) top layer instead of GBlur. Added a masked Levels adj to darken the sketch in the sky area. Merged the result to a new layer and ran Diffuse>Aniso putting a Curves adj layer above this to darken and the base image above that in Color mode to colorize it. Cloned the base image in Painter8 with the ChalkCloner brush (a very rough sketch). Put this as the next layer in Multiply mode, 47%. Merged all this to a new layer and dodged the person. Then copied a selection of the sea and sand to a yet another layer, lowered opacity to ~50% and nudged this above person to make him (her?) ghostly / shadowy. The idea here is one of a fading memory or feeling lost / insignificant in this huge world of ours.

-Mark

[jaykita]

I loved Roger_ele's. Something i'd imagine the "afterlife" would look like!

[PamSav]

There's so much creativity here, I can only hope that one day I'll be half as good as some of you. I really like the posts by roger_ele and SWEngineer. I'm not very good at expressing myself but I really love the totally different interpretations you guys did.

[glikster]

I would like to make it clear that I took the text from the Despair, Inc. website.
There is an actual print (with a different photo) titled Loneliness with the Text that's in my picture. So all legal rights of the phrasing is theirs, etc., etc....

[Fluffbutt]

Originally Posted by SWEngineer

Another great thread to revive. Anybody know what happened to Fluff? He did some great work here, but I haven't seen his name on anything recent.
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-Mark

Oh I'm still around.. Cats sleep a lot, and pad about very quietly, so's you don't even knows they're there! LOL PURRRR!

Actually I've been playing with pictures, taking some, working (ran out of money, too many wedding photographers in town, so now I drive a truck (!!). plenty of opportunities to take pix with my digital).

I've pretty much perfected a colour pencil system, but I can't post it (not being nasty!) because it changes with each picture.

The basic steps are multiple layers, all set to about 66% and overlay/softlight/screen/hardlight (that last one at 15%) (AND the order varies too!).
Then you run Impressionist with a chalky action, Imp. with a pencil action, drag the background up to a new layer set to colour, and finish of with a light PE layer. The fourth layer is for burn in adjustments or to paint back some detail at a 33% level. And this all changes depending on if its people, flowers, cars (old tractors, etc) or landscapes.

So I'd love to post you guys (and gals) something more definite, but I can't!!

<sad little purrrowww!!>

<Fluffbutt pads over to the computer and crops a piccy for ya's>

Here's a cropped section of a Holden rusting in a field (I think I got the original from Morguefiles, again)...

If you look at the side windows, you'll see the basic pencil effect with the chalked window 'behind', to add colour and depth.

[Neve]

Great result Fluffbutt and thanks for the details on your approach to this.

When we first arrived in W.A. in 1970 our first car was a Holden EJ 1963. Great family car with our kids enjoying jaunts to the drive-ins, beach etc.

Thanks for evoking such happy memories...!

[byRo]

Just had to hava another shot at this one.

Made a new set of AHB tools, sort of chalks..

Had to scrunch it down to 100k so I attached a cropped piece too.

Rô

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by byRo

Just had to hava another shot at this one.

Made a new set of AHB tools, sort of chalks..

Had to scrunch it down to 100k so I attached a cropped piece too.

Rô

Rô... I was just about to go to bed (it's 1:06 a.m.), when I noticed the link here where I found your little gift to all of us.

Sure appreciate all the work/study/fun you've been putting into the AHB settings of late. I'm learning things I could not have imagined.

You da man!

~Danny~

[Legacy~Art]

I adore this picture!!!

I have done this larger and going to print it off lately this evening.

Have just the place for it in my bathroom!

Anyhow this is what i did, i took the colours to extreme with a plugin in called Filter Unlimited 2 now if you cannot find this plugin let me know i will find a way of getting it uploaded.

Then i used a brush i got from Trimoon cd which is a hairbrush i use this all the time now to do paintings with, its a must just for this tool.

Then i added texture, then i painted in black over the man, just to add extra depth.

Simple!

Elle

[Janet Petty]

Ro, Legacy you guys ROCK. You both took a somewhat dull photo and made it into a masterpiece.



Janet

[Fluffbutt]

Well, the old FluffyButt just had to go and have fun again...

So with a big PURRR, he's missing you...

[Neve]

You're all excelling yourselves today!

LA - great colours...yep I have that filter, plenty to choose from isn't there.

[Legacy~Art]

Thank you Janet, Yes Neve it is a fun plugin, i guess Danny needs a charity bring and leave plugin thread, where someone leaves a plugin and only way someone can have it is if they leave one too, it works if everyone does it for fun.
Fluffy i think you need to just do the face smaller so you don't get the line at the top and to blend it in more with the sky ie...opacity, but i love that idea!!!

[Fluffbutt]

LA - you're right. I was doing a quick & dirty job... I was trying to find a piccy of a beautiful face crying, But Liz's will do for the idea..

[Elleth]

I've been working on trying to tame the art history brush and thought I'd give this image a try.

I used a combination of TM's art history brushes and ahb chalks by Ro.

This is getting addicting!