Creative Portraits: Ariana

[jaykita]

Here's a doll for you to play with. She is a gorgeous 8-mth old, belonging to a very close friend.
I'm sending this in with her mother's consent.

[Legacy~Art]

Onto it right now...be back in err an hour or so...

[Legacy~Art]

In between painter 9 and the brushes from trimoon cd in photoshop i came up with this, if it wasnt 2am here i would do it again as i am not too happy with it, but if you want the 300 dpi let me know this one is 72.

Elle

Thank your friend for allowing us to draw or paint her she is beautiful!!! what a joy!

[jaykita]

Elle, thats beautiful, what you've done! Thank you, her parents will be thrilled! Shall pm you.
Come on, the others! Give it your best shot. Where have you all gone??

[Legacy~Art]

I did the ear wrong on that one so i did it again...

G'night all lol!

I get later and later with this forum, your so bad for me lol!

[jaykita]

Elle, your 2nd one is lovelier!
Here's another photo of this doll! Enjoy!

[Neve]

She's gorgeous Judy and thanks for the photo.

Because I couldn't see any hairline as it blended into the bg too much, I used PSP8.1 Auto Contrast to lighten. Then Neat Image/Reduce Noise. Resized the image to 140% 72 dpi.

Duped bottom layer and filled the bottom layer with pink.
Eraser/Dry Brush all over bg. Merged visible.
Paintbrush/Dry Brush/White over bg, plus a darker shade of pink.
Smudged all of the bg.
Made a rectangular feathered selection and placed on another
pink background. Some more edge smudging.
Duped bottom layer.
L2 - Impressionist/Watercolour/Soft Daubs on fine paper/ Mode 50%
Duped L2 - Multiply Mode at 30%
Merged all.

P.S. With a second look, it looks like I have her wrapped up in Candy Floss???

[Xaran]

Another beautiful little one.

Christine

[CJ Swartz]

A lovely living doll!

[jaykita]

Neve, Christine, C.J. lovely renditions! Thank you.
Neve, yep candy floss alright! Christine, very nice watercolor effect. C.j. the eyes they do look pretty. Is that a hat or bonnet??
Here's my creation. I Went thoroughly overboard, i think.
Impossible to recall the steps, though there's a bit of vp wc and airbrush in it, also initially i did a bit of cloning in painter, and added some render clouds and wc layers in ps7. There was a final luminosity blend.

[Legacy~Art]

Lovely lovely pictures ladies!!

Where are all the gents when we want some work done eh?

Judy working on the new picture now!!!

[jaykita]

Originally Posted by Legacy~Art

Lovely lovely pictures ladies!!

Where are all the gents when we want some work done eh?

Judy working on the new picture now!!!

Where indeed! Come on guys, time to play with Baby!
Here's one more....vp 3 layers - collage, drawing, gouache, diff opacities and blends.

[Fizzgiz]

I set blending mode to multiply, and somehow played with that Art History Brush. I'm not crazy about the results on this one, but I shall play some more and continue to learn.

[Karyn]

What a Happy kid!

I wanted to capture those sparkling eyes.

desaturated
duplicated
inverted and changed to colour dodge
Gaussian blur
removed unwanted distractions like the background
new layers with some colour set to overlay

[jaykita]

Fizzgiz - you did very well with the a-h brush. Getting in that much detail is not easy.
Karyn - Ariana's eyes shine like jewels! Very good work!
Btw - welcome to RTP!

[SWEngineer]

As requested, here's one from one of the guys.

Much messing around with filters in Elements2 to cleanup & simplify the image. Took the result into Painter & autocloned using the Impressionist cloner brush on a new layer. Applied 3D Brushstroke surface texture on the new layer. Back to Elements. Softlight mode for the autoclone layer. Duplicate, LightingEffects, Decolor, Highpass. Softlight mode with some masking to selectively enhance the texture. Added a touch of canvas texture to top it off.

-Mark

[jaykita]

Very nice, Mark.

[Peter S]

Its taken nearly three years, but here is another guy with an attempt at this one.

Peter