Creative Portraits: Legacy's Gal Pals

[DannyRaphael]

Here are a couple to work on, courtesy of Elle (Legacy).

She requested "pencil or charcoal"-type effects on these, but I'll bet if you snuck in a painted version she'd be OK with that!

Have fun...

~Danny~

[Legacy~Art]

Yeah i be fine with that...

[Neve]

She has a lovely warm smile and face!

Just added a duplicate layer and applied Impressionist/Trimoons: Steve's WC III. Then erased on that layer to reveal her eyes, nose and mouth areas only.

I think we already had the other one posted for doing sketches on it?

[jaykita]

Hi Elle! Your first pic has already been posted HERE..
Your friend has a lovely, vibrant face. My sketch is more of a pen-and-pencil one, i think. Cloned this one in painter with acrylic brushes.
Neve. well done, and such a fabulous frame! As usual!

[Xaran]

Duplicated background VP watercolour.
Duplicated background again - sketcher - overlay mode.
Merged to new layer and VP watercolour again.

Christine

[paschan]

Sorry, I'm so beginner, so not so good work, but I try post it.

[byRo]

Originally Posted by paschan

Sorry, I'm so beginner, so not so good work, but I try post it.

Hi there, paschan. Welcome to RP , and congratulations that's a very nice first post.
Could you tell us how you did it?

Rô

[Legacy~Art]

Yeah its been added before but you could do just one of the ladies in the picture from the trio couldnt you?

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by paschan

Sorry, I'm so beginner, so not so good work, but I try post it.

Hello, Pachan:

Do not worry that you are a beginner. Everyone starts as a beginner. Practice, practice, practice and keep trying. That is how you learn.

Welcome to RetouchPRO.

~Danny~

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J: Your sketch work is outstanding.

[DannyRaphael]

Oops...Did I double-up and post one I'd already posted?

Sorry about that... so many pictures, so little time.

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I post this one not as an act of "Look at this! Isn't this cool!" (it isn't), but to illustrate that sometimes no matter how hard you try things just don't come out the way you hope they would. But you just keep on trying again another day and hope for something better.

34 layers of trial and mostly error. Here are details on a few layers...
* Isolated subject using a layer mask, merged with a layer filled with white and flattened
* Copied background and applied Virtual Painter Drawing filter
* Set foreground color to black
* Select > Color Range > Selected Color
* Ctrl + J to isolate the black, arty strokes to their own layer
* Deleted the layer rendered by Virtual Painter
* Repeated above using Virtual Painter Drawing filter. Different strokes

* Duplicated BG again & desaturated
* Blur > Smart Blur/Edge Only, Ctrl + I (to invert), Stylize > Diffuse > Anisotropic (to smooth edges a bit)

* Duplicated BG again & desaturated
* Stylize > Find Edges
* Image > Adjustments > Levels. Adjust controls to get rid of the midtone grays

* Duplicated BG again
* Press D to set foreground/background colors
* Sketch > Photocopy

* Duplicated BG again
* Image > Adjustments > Desaturate

....then I started experimenting blending "the best" from each layer using layer masks, levels or curves adjustment layers and blend modes.

26 or so layers later I got tired of experimenting. It was going nowhere, so I merged visible into a new layer and duplicated that one. To the duplicate I applied Virtual Painter Oil Painting filter, added a layer mask and airbrushed black in a few areas to restore some detail from the layer below.

~Danny~

[byRo]

I've been trying to make some Art-History brushes to do (coloured) pencil sketches.
This is what I've got so far.

Rô

[Legacy~Art]

Lovely lovely B'Ro i can see Pam smiling eyes, she is such a happy soul!

[paschan]

You made me be confident.
I coildn't use english so well, because I am korean of orient.
pls understand the poor english. ^^

following is my methods in upper posting.

lasso(feather 30) and delete selections around human
duplicate the background layer
desaturate the copy layer
filter-brushstroke-crosshatch
opacity adjust 40%
duplicate the copy layer
filter-artistic-dry brush
opacity adjust adequately
mergy the copy layers
layer masker around the eyes

And I knew this community yesterday, but it's fantastic.
I want to learn many things in photography and retouching and so on.
So, I hope your kind advices and helps continuously.
Thank you.

[Legacy~Art]

Your english is just fine hun, welcome to the forum and share more of your knowledge and pictures okay?

[paschan]

For one more picture, I tried it more like paintings.

- duplicate the original
- layer mode color burn and invert
- gaussian blur 10
- flatten images
- duplicate background
- filter artistic drybrush and brush strokes crosshatch
- image adjustment curves - some darken

[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