Creative Portraits: Little Angelic Smile

[Legacy~Art]

Here is a picture of my neice, i would very much appreciate this picture is only used on this forum, and not to used for professional use.

Turn this little cherub into a angel.

Oil paintings. Drawings, Watercolours, show us your artistic talent!

If you need a larger picture i do have one.

She has the most beautiful blue eyes normally first you need to remove the red eyes to cornflower blue!

[palms]

Here is my attempt at turning a cherub into a angel ( with my grandaughters and niece it is more like turning them from little devils into angels ) couldn't make my mind up which one i liked best so have attached both of them ! ! !

[cazubi]

Well, I thought that she was just too beautiful to pass by. I hope she won't mind the fluffy dress.

Cathy

[Legacy~Art]

Cathy she is always dressing up, i am sure she will love it!

[Xaran]

Here's another dressing up dress for her then....

Christine

[Neve]

Cathy hi, that is lovely. She looks so fragile! Well done Christine, I'm sure with all your grand-daughters you'll appreciate little girls and dressing up!!!

[Xaran]

Thanks Neve, actually I cheated, I created this and several others for my eldest grandaughter a couple of years ago, they were all created in a vector program (called Xara), all I did was substitute the head and do a bit of smudging in PS.

I've attached some more dresses without heads if anyone else wants to play with them.

Christine

[Legacy~Art]

Christine!

You just given me an idea...

I am going to print the dresses out, and also print a picture of Emma's top half on a model and then she can dress up herself!

Thank you!!!

[cazubi]

Thanks all. What a great idea. I think that I will make a paper doll gift for my granddaughter.

Cathy

[Legacy~Art]

eh Cathy i see your stealing ideas, i got it © you know LOL!

[PamSav]

Elle - I couldn't resist your gorgeous niece. She looks like a real sweetie

Here's a larger version of the attached: http://www.pbase.com/pamsav/image/43965484/original

[Legacy~Art]

PAM

Oh wow that is absolutely gorgeous!

Beautiful!

How you do it?

And i love the signature!

[PamSav]

Elle, Thank you

I started off in PS by fixing the red eye and restoring her gorgeous blue eyes, then I increased the size and resolution and cropped to 8 x 10. Extracted Emma from the background and put her on a new one made from a clouds layer with colours sampled from her clothing. Played with hue/sat and contrast a bit then removed the noise with Neat Image.

Cloned in Painter IX using Jeremy's Mish Mash brush for the background, Captured Bristle for her hair and Soft Wet Acrylic for her face and clothing. Dodged in some highlights on her clothing and added some texture in PS.

Hope that helps

Cazubi - I love what you did, she looks like she's in an old painting. Really lovely.

[Legacy~Art]

Pam thank you

Its gorgeous, so where do i get this "Jeremy's Mish Mash brush" from?

And i will have a try at the painter 9 now i have seen your picture here!

Gorgeous!!!

Elle

[Kraellin]

ok, someone just had to do the obvious...angel

K.

[PamSav]

As far as I know, you can only get Jeremy's Mish Mash brush with the Painter IX Creativity book by Jeremy Sutton. It's a great book for learning Painter, I'm still on the first chapter and I've learnt loads already !! The book comes with a CD full of goodies and the brush is one of the ones on that.

Pam

[Legacy~Art]

Thats nice but you have a baby arms with a 5 yr olds head. Its not in proportion, i like the idea though.

[Kraellin]

legacy,

if you're referring to mine, yes, i know. it was the best image of an angel i could find. i'm not real happy with it either, but like you, i liked the idea of it

K.

[Kraellin]

ok, not being happy with my last one, i decided to do another, but with a more conventional style. i just want to make a better pic of the little girl. the original picture had quite a few things wrong with it and it took me a while to sort out all the things that bugged me with it, but i think i've got a passable shot this time.

doubled the image size to get more detail in corrections
cropped the image
altered the background with a selection and gradient fill
corrected color tones with contrast layer, levels set to color, and color blending
reduced noise and grain with texture preserving smooth and edge preserving smooth
smoothed out some odd textures with smudge and clone
added lighting effects with illumination/lights
more minor corrections with smudge
more lighting effects with illumination/lights, especially to bring out her face

i wouldnt call this a studio shot; it's more bordering on studio versus photo art, a combination of both. but such an adorable little girl needed better treatment

K.

[Kraellin]

i knew as soon as i posted that last one and looked at it that i hadnt gotten it. so, i redid it. i like this one better.

K.

[Legacy~Art]

That is beautiful Kraellin!!!

Lovely picture!

[Kraellin]

thank you, Legacy

one of the things i love about this site is the support and feedback from other folks like yourself. i've been on other sites where if you posted something like this, you might get 1000 views, but only one in that 1000 might comment, good or bad. an artist tends to live and breathe on feedback. this is true of performing arts, graphic arts, musical and all the other arts. thus, we tend to be somewhat at the mercy of our respective audiences. so, without any feedback, one can get the feeling one isnt doing anything worthwhile at times...we're having no effect.

with feedback, even if it's a decent criticism, we tend to grow and flourish and get better and continue to produce. and this place is definitely a place that enhances and encourages growth.

so, again, thank you, and to all the others that do the same

K.

[Kraellin]

Legacy,

i'm sorry, i dont understand. i was thanking the folks here, not asking for help, but thanks for the offer

i use psp 7.

K.

[lkroll]

This time I decided to link the image since I wanted to show a higher quality than the 100K limit (you can see the file size underneath the link image). I'm still experimenting with brush textures (this one created using Gimpressionist). Hope you all like it.

Side note: I used Impressionist with djrOil24 preset and some other things before this step. I used GIMP's bumpmap for relief texture.


http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/7...emma4bl.th.jpg