Creative Portraits: Legacy's Gal Pals

[photoshoplover]

pencil sketch

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by photoshoplover

pencil sketch

Very well done. Nice combination of edges and shading. Did you use Painter, Photoshop or ???

One of the best digital frames I've seen in a long time, too. It compliments the artwork. Say a few words about its origin, would ya?

[photoshoplover]

I am sorry for not providing the details earlier. I used painter- pencils. Mainly thin and thick and blender for the shading. I suppose the frame is Bud's.
Your compliment will further encourage me.
regards,
rajesh parikh

[LQQKER]

Isolated one lady on the left.
Cropped
Small curve adj.
Copied hair to opposite side.
Adjusted eye color and catch light.
Knocked out image.
Xero Clairity.
Painted in shadows and highlights via Nik (midnight, skylight, etc.)
Some smudge.
Simplified (a few times)
Redfield bg.
Slight gradient on edges.
Color balance
Hue & sat adj.
Contrast adj.

[jaykita]

Hey Elle, one more sketch from me of your lovely friend.
I did this with painter and ps7, both. Hope you like it.

[jaykita]

For this one, i used several blends for the sketch effect, color dodge for one, also difference blend, i also used the impr filter, and filter- paint daubs.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by jaykita

Hey Elle, one more sketch from me of your lovely friend.
I did this with painter and ps7, both. Hope you like it.

This one is truly exceptional Judy. Share a little "how to" detail in terms of what Painter brushes you used.

Wow!

[Neve]

Love your sketch Judy, terrific work on this one!

[jaykita]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

This one is truly exceptional Judy. Share a little "how to" detail in terms of what Painter brushes you used.

Wow!

Danny, Neve! Thank you very much!
Here's "a little" detail of how i accomplished this.
First of all, I opened the original DESATURATED image in corel painter8, and made 2 duplicate copies by using the file-clone feature.
On each of the cloned images, i used a different "value" setting (effects-tonal control- adjust colors) one of them very dark to sharply bring out the texture of the blouse she was wearing, the other one much lighter to use for the face when cloning. Now i have 3 image files open, light, normal, dark. I used all 3 for my cloning as and when required.
For the sketch, i used acrylic-wet soft 20, at diff opacities (50 and 100 mostly ) and sizes (ranging from 1 upto 8). I tried using different blank layers for diff parts of the image for eg, found parts of the blouse was a bit lighter than desired so i multiplied this layer to get a darker effect. When i "sketched" as much as i was happy with, I saved as a psd file. Closed painter and opened in ps7. Now for the fun part!
Here's what i did in ps7: First layer that of painter sketch (all layers merged). Layer 2- original desaturated image - invert, softlight blend. Merge. Duplicate and multiply blend, opac 50. Merge. Some minor touch-ups with dodge/burn tool (to brighten up eyes, cheekbones, teeth etc). Another layer of image original desat- filter-find edges, add layermask, render-difference clouds on layermask, repeat difference clouds till desirable effect is achieved. Lower opacity. Merge. Thats it. Hope you will find this helpful.
Thank you once again for the appreciation.

[Neve]

......I'm really going to enjoy trying this out Judy! Your explanation is much appreciated.

[Peter S]

Smoothed
Simplified
Diffused
Curves adjust
Added cross hatch

Peter

[Steve Conway]

Gal Pic sketch.

Steve C.

[Peter S]

Tried loads of stuff with this one.
Nothing was coming out right so went back to an old favourite, the cutout filter with a texture added.

Peter