Creative Portraits: Pink Flower in her Hat

[Steve Conway]

While we were whippering and snappering I decided to post even another masterpiece of our lady in the hat.

Here's "Lady in Painted Dress." (And hat.)

Steve

[Steve Conway]

Sorry...here is the pic to go with last post.

Steve

[Drach]

Here's my take on that one

1 layer posterize, 1 layer fotocopy, some color and contrast manipulation and another layer for the frame (made out of her dress)..

[Marthig]

Hi Steve
Nice effect, I like it that you did not applied it to her face, and in all it looks very nice !

Drach
I like your interpretation too, it looks like a poster and using the dress for the frame background was good, I didn't see it in detail and thought it was a sort of grunge effect

Regards - Martha

[Steve Conway]

Thank you Martha.

That was a funky and fun idea. Heavily paint the whole image on a duped layer and paint out what you don't want.

Steve

Originally Posted by Marthig

Hi Steve
Nice effect, I like it that you did not applied it to her face, and in all it looks very nice !

Regards - Martha

[lkroll]

Just some play with too many filters to give you an accurate detailed method. Like I've already mentioned before, each rendering, though I use most of the same filters all the time, the implementation is always different and rarely have I used rote methods in rendering images.

[Drach]

Hiya everyone.. long time no see

I gave this one another try using chalk (painter essentials2) and my trusty intuos. Added a little color-tuning afterwards in photoshop.

Enjoy

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Drach

Hiya everyone.. long time no see

I gave this one another try using chalk (painter essentials2) and my trusty intuos. Added a little color-tuning afterwards in photoshop.

Enjoy

Welcome back, Drach. Don't stay away so long next time!

[NancyJ]

Bit of a necro-bump but I just found this one (since we cleared out the celebs)
Nothing ground breaking, I know, but I hope at least, pretty.

[lkroll]

I've already downloaded many brushes and presets, just haven't been that motivated to pursue this form of rendering (still like pushing filters to their limits). You're rendering is awesome and almost makes me want to try smudging though (like I said; almost. lol).

[Kraellin]

nancy,

you are way too modest. that's lovely

craig

[palms1]

Very nice Nancy and very pretty

Palms

[NancyJ]

Originally Posted by lkroll

I've already downloaded many brushes and presets, just haven't been that motivated to pursue this form of rendering (still like pushing filters to their limits). You're rendering is awesome and almost makes me want to try smudging though (like I said; almost. lol).

Thank you. You should definately give it a go. Its quite easy once you get the hang of brush and strength choice. Out of all the digital painting techniques I've tried it is by far my favorite, and its so versatile. I'm glad I've inspired you

Originally Posted by kraellin

nancy,

you are way too modest. that's lovely

Originally Posted by palms1

Very nice Nancy and very pretty

Palms

Thanks, both of you.

I'm trying to put together a gallery of digital art but getting source pictures that arent going to get me sued is difficult. Especially since my favorite subject is portraits. I've tried to find out about copyright in the UK for work like this but there isnt anything specific in the law and as far as I can tell, no legal precident. :s

[palms1]

Nancy do you have a list of source pictures that you want ? apart from portraits (lots of people dont want them put on the net ! etc )

Palms

[manta1900]

Closer to reality?



Altering perfection can only make something not perfect (IMHO).