Creative interpretations: Tiger Closeup

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by deadants

The poster was one of those movie posters that weree around in the 70's, you know, Clint Eastwood, Easy Rider, Marilyn Munroe etc...Ah, they were the days. I think I'll go and listen to Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida now.

Iron Butterfly: The epitome of a heavy metal band. And Clint? Just "Make my day!"

Indeed... those were some great days. Thx for the memories.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by jaykita

Hello Danny! I have to tell you, i get very manipulative (with my art work of course ) and I sometimes use the "fill with clone image" feature in painter at low opacities apart from actual cloning. It all depends on what end result i'm after, though sometimes i'm surprised by something unexpected!
Anyway, here's my jaykita.set file, zipped and sent to you. Hope no problem opening it.

No problems opening it... Just tried it. Great effect.

I'm seeing Category "Jakita WC" with "Watercolor (bright)." Are there others?

Thanks again for once again sharing your Impressionist handiwork. And feel free to be (arty) manipulative any time you like! You're so good at that.

[Northernshadow]

Beautiful picture,
I love the funky colors in Neve's, Legacy~Art's and Jakita's versions!
There are some great painted effects I like in the others too.

Here's my steps
-duplicated the background
-ran Impressionist on this layer
(variation of Charcoal - black background, brightness 55, contrast 70)
-made a snapshot of the original background and used the Art History brush to bring back some detail (went for a broken pastelly look)
-intensified eye color
-saved as a psd file

-opened original and ran a sketch effect
-copied this to the top of the psd file, set blend mode to multiply
-ran Impressionist again, variation of pencil-soft light

-merged layers and cropped, and added paper texture

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Northernshadow

Beautiful picture,
I love the funky colors in Neve's, Legacy~Art's and Jakita's versions!
There are some great painted effects I like in the others too.

Here's my steps
-duplicated the background
-ran Impressionist on this layer
(variation of Charcoal - black background, brightness 55, contrast 70)
-made a snapshot of the original background and used the Art History brush to bring back some detail (went for a broken pastelly look)
-intensified eye color
-saved as a psd file

-opened original and ran a sketch effect
-copied this to the top of the psd file, set blend mode to multiply
-ran Impressionist again, variation of pencil-soft light

-merged layers and cropped, and added paper texture

Nicely done... The textures are wonderful.

[cazubi]

Beautiful, Pam. I am going to try out your approach.

Very nice, Neve.



Cathy

[Joeven]

I love tigers.

Joe

[lkroll]

It was ugly for Auburn most of the game, but in the end (like the last 3 minutes), Auburn scored 2 touchdowns to beat Utah so why not render this tiger for my team. War Eagle!; you go tigers. A win's a win.

[alexmeta]

Trying to watercolor

[0lBaldy]

An Impasto.. Oil type thingy from me

[Crapaud]

Another great piece of thread necromancy, Joe.

I couldn't decide whether I preferred a B/W or colour.

[lkroll]

Saw this ivey growing on the side of this brick wall and said to myself that it looked a lot like this tiger. What do you all think?

[gholmes1936]

Used Auto Painter Express and then used a mask to do some fill in using Photoshop CS5, also texturing and sharpen in PS.

[skipatk]

My go at a watercolor. I really like the colors in ALex's above.

[skipatk]

Here's another go with an oil effect and gallery wrapped.

[FranS]

This was a wonderful thread to bring back. Everyone has done really terrific interpretations.

I'm trying to learn the AHB so that's what I used.

Fran

[Crapaud]

Fran, you've inspired me to have another go at Vasilly's AHB watercolour technique. I still haven't quite hit the nail yet, but it's the best I've managed so far. Any critiques / pointers welcome.

[FranS]

Crapaud, first time I've inspired anybody!! I think you did a great job. I've been trying to use Vitally's technique too. Palms also has a great tutorial here on RP. I don't know if you've seen it or not.

Fran

[Crapaud]

This whole sight's inspiring me, Fran. I kind of want to do everything that everyone else does - there're some fantastic talents here. I spent an hour this afternoon looking at Sylvia's Flicker account and I might have to fork out for her tuts e-book ... or resign myself to mediocrity.

I've probably seen Palms tut, but I've looked at so much recently that my brain's mush. Is that the smudge tutorial?

[palms]

Fran and Crapaud you have both done really well, and have both submitted great versions (as has everyone else )

You could use the history brush at say 20% on the eyes to bring a bit more detail to them

and i think that Fran means my ahb sort of tut ( not that good at writing them ) here is one of them ahb

The links used to be in my signature but I dont have that option anymore, so you will have to search for all the others ( just noticed that it seems to be a new thing ! ! ! )

[FranS]

Yes, Palms, that's the tut I was referring to. It has helped me a lot.

Palms, could you explain the difference between the AHB and the history brush?

Thanks,
Fran

[palms]

Originally Posted by FranS

Yes, Palms, that's the tut I was referring to. It has helped me a lot.

Palms, could you explain the difference between the AHB and the history brush?

Thanks,
Fran

In my own way yes (but not the technical way )

you know what the art history brush does

the History brush brings back the original image ( so to speak) the history state

so by using the history brush at a reduced opacity you can bring back original details on your actual image or as i do on a new layer so that you have more options that way

but both of these brushes work on the history state that you started with so if you say resize the image they will either not work or be in the wrong place

i know i have not made that, that clear but hope you might be able to understand my logic

Palms

[FranS]

Thanks, Palms. I'll try using the history brush as well as the AHB.

Fran

[lkroll]

Another experiment that I call smudge on black velvet. Not 100% happy with my flow, but will hopefully come up with a good balance soon.

[gholmes1936]

Impressive, are you selling any in Mexico alongside elvis. Sorry couldn't resist that one.

[lkroll]

lol; thanks Gunner (just now notice your reply; tend not to revisit threads; lol). Yea; Elvis was the inspiration. lol

[lkroll]

Thought I would chisel this one this time.