Dragan Retouch....

[POETIC IMAGE]

Hey guys and gals.
I thought it would be fun to see how everyones skills are at the "dragan" technique. For those who don't know what this is examples can be found at http://andrzejdragan.com/ . I love this technique , I don't think I would use it in anything I do but its sure dramatic and fun to admire. Good luck ;o))
Christopher

Image to retouch--> http://www.edwardfrench.com/cranshaw...0old%20man.JPG

[byRo]

Not sure I'd call that a "Dragan".
Although the technique calls for heightening the texture of the skin the idea is to get a portrait with a lot of "character".
In this image it seems that the intent was only to amplify all the defects - which ends up more "creepy" than "character".

The technique has already been discussed at length in these forums - please do a search for "Dragan".

Rô

[POETIC IMAGE]

Sorry the above link to the old man is the image to retouch....

[Photo678]

im not going to lie. I gagged a little when i saw the original picture

[POETIC IMAGE]

I know thats why I thought it would be a perfect one to experiment with LOL

[POETIC IMAGE]

A little less freddy Krueger...

[maureeno]

Originally Posted by Photo678

im not going to lie. I gagged a little when i saw the original picture

But the eyes are brilliant and alive!

Maureen

[POETIC IMAGE]

Your right!

[Steve Conway]

"Fleeting time thou hast left me old."
Albright

Steve

[POETIC IMAGE]

looks great steve.

[edgework]

My effort.

http://edgework.tripod.com/samples/old_man.jpg

[POETIC IMAGE]

Love how you smoothed out some areas. Great job.

[LQQKER]

Well . . . I don't find the look of age scary or like to make it so. Myself, I think he has the looks of a man that has had a timely experience with life, so I made an attempt to portray him as so.

[Steve Conway]

I agree with your sentiments and with your nice rendition.

I have a 91 year old father-in-law.

Steve

Originally Posted by LQQKER

Well . . . I don't find the look of age scary or like to make it so. Myself, I think he has the looks of a man that has had a timely experience with life, so I made an attempt to portray him as so.

[Steve Conway]

I thank you.

Steve

Originally Posted by POETIC IMAGE

looks great steve.

[POETIC IMAGE]

Great job Lqqker. Love the skin texture.

[Pam]

Here's my try...

In the style of Andrzej Dragan - ???


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Pam
http://www.pbase.com/pam_r
'art is working on something 'til you like it...then leaving it that way'

[superkoax]

thisd what I came out with! some dodging and bruning! dark filter on picture masking out some areas around the face!

[Cassidy]

Originally Posted by Pam

Here's my try...

In the style of Andrzej Dragan - ???


--
Pam
http://www.pbase.com/pam_r
'art is working on something 'til you like it...then leaving it that way'

Quite Stunning, the change of the colour of the wrap really enhances as well

[Cassidy]

My attempt

[HandMadeGod]

my try for dragan

[POETIC IMAGE]

Hi Handmade,
I think its nice but might be a little on the light side. For me there is too much contrast between him and the background. Nice though.

[pindaro]

there u go.

[HandMadeGod]

Thanks but i think the background isn't really important for a try like this.

Originally Posted by POETIC IMAGE

Hi Handmade,
I think its nice but might be a little on the light side. For me there is too much contrast between him and the background. Nice though.

[Godmother]

on Dragan style

A lot of work went into this one

[POETIC IMAGE]

You can tell. Great work. Love the naturalness to it.

[Godmother]

I think every retouch should be seamless

[HroadhogD1]

Well, this is what I came up with.

[triggerfish]

[img]http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r209/triggerfish_kajtku/barber3.jpg[img]

[sunfly]

The more I looked at the challenge photo, the more it reminded me of Leonardo's Grotesque Heads. So... I had fun learning how to use the liquify tool. :-)

As for all the steps.. whew! I got lost a lonnnnnnnnnnng time ago. I started off with liquify, then colour correction, then overlays for more brights, cloning, erasing, whitening hairs, putting in stubble... umm... ended up with a black background unintentionally.

Sherry