Creative Portraits: Nathaniel

[DannyRaphael]

Cute little guy... His mother wants to see what can be done with his recent school picture.

Have fun...

~Danny~

[Legacy~Art]

Ooooh hes a babe! I bet when hes older he will have lots of girlies!

I shall work on this one later, thank you Danny.

[Legacy~Art]

Being old school and growing up with 5 girls and 1 lad, boys don't wear pink, so i added a red t shirt, here is mine, i painted it with chalk, oils, you name it its on here.

Beautiful kid!


Not happy with it, so i shall retouch it later i got to get ready its mid day and i have done nothing this morning.

Shall add it again later!

[palms]

Here's my attempt, a smudging and a drawing

Palms

[Panpan]

Beautiful child, excellent soft lighting! I attempted no sketch, oil or watercolor; I only tried to improve the smile. It's not always easy to smile on command for a photograph.

Pierre

[Xaran]

Here's my version - sorry but I too didn't like to see a lad in a pink shirt.

Christine

[Steve Conway]

Nathanial in B&W.

Steve

[Kraellin]

cleaned, sharpened, adjusted color, balance, and contrast, and changed the shirt color. just a tiny bit of cloning around the edges of the face.

Craig

[Alcar]

One more pencil. White layer and painting with hide all (black) mask and an impressionist texture.
Alan

[Legacy~Art]

Alcar how did you do that pencil drawing, did you give description on another thread, if so can you tell me where it is please?

Love renditions from everyone!

[cazubi]

Very nice Craig.

Alcar: a beautiful pencil drawing look.

Cathy

[Alcar]

Legacy-Art, I did give this tute before, but I don't remember the thread. Here it is again:

1. Convert image to b&w.
2. Dupe background layer and set mode to Screen.
3. Adjust opacity.
4. Open new layer and fill with white.
5.Add a “hide all mask” (black) and paint with white brush.
(Use high opacity to outline figure and remove unnecessary elements, and use low opacity to brush in on face and hair. A black brush, of course, corrects any mistakes.)
6.If necessary repeat steps 4 and 5 to fine-tune image.

I did add a paper texture with Impressionist, but that's not necessary. Have fun.

Alan

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Alcar

Legacy-Art, I did give this tute before, but I don't remember the thread. Here it is again:

1. Convert image to b&w.
2. Dupe background layer and set mode to Screen.
3. Adjust opacity.
4. Open new layer and fill with white.
5.Add a “hide all mask” (black) and paint with white brush.
(Use high opacity to outline figure and remove unnecessary elements, and use low opacity to brush in on face and hair. A black brush, of course, corrects any mistakes.)
6.If necessary repeat steps 4 and 5 to fine-tune image.

I did add a paper texture with Impressionist, but that's not necessary. Have fun.

Alan

Just a wonderful result, Alan. Thanks for sharing the how-you-did-it.

[Kraellin]

thanks cathy

palms, is that one of those i was recently asking about, the one where the graphire was mentioned? same style/technique?

Craig

[Legacy~Art]

Alan thank you, i really love the results!

Its nice when people share isn't it

Thank you!!!

Ella

[palms]

Craig i wish it was the same technique , but sadly no the "graphire " was not loaded.

Palms

hopefully we are not at cross purposes

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Xaran

Here's my version - sorry but I too didn't like to see a lad in a pink shirt.

Christine

...and I meant to mention how much Nathaniel's mother likes this one, Christine. I like it a lot, too, so much so that you inspired me to take a crack at this one.

It was nice to see you pop in.

BTW: Thanks for the referral to the nice folks at Focal Press.

~Danny~

[LQQKER]

Good looking little fellow

Knocked out image
Created bg
lightened center of bg.
Changed shirt color (it needed to happen )
Some smudging, although not apparent.
Simplified at different times.
Nik filters.
several blending modes.
Typical handwork

[dbuckle]

I used SA and PScs2 to do this.

[Kraellin]

lqqker,

i like that. i think that's the best in the lot so far. i'd take it over mine. good color, good texure, good background, good contrast...really nicely done!

dbuckle,
i like yours too. good blending of the shirt to match the face. nice soft look without distorting the base picture!

Craig

[raniday]

I would think this handsome young man's mom would be overjoyed at the beautiful paintings everyone has done. Really creative and varied.
Here's my attempt, using Painter IX.

[Kraellin]

i like these Painter renditions. one thing though, catherine. when you changed his shirt color you also changed his lip color.

Craig

[Duv]

Really nice work here! Tried something a little different for me.
Duped background/Screen/Add MT layer filled with white/Reveal All/Loosely painted in background.

Impressionist: Fingerpaint/Image/25,100,158

Flattened, duped and flipped horizontal. Reduced opacity to 30%.

Adjusted contrast in LAB.

Cheers

Dave

[raniday]

Yeah, I noticed that, Craig, but looking at the original, it didn't seem to be enough difference to re-do.

[Kraellin]

catherine,

i only caught it and mentioned it because i ran into the same thing when i tried to change the shirt.

Craig

[Neve]

W..O..W and

An excellent thread! Outstanding and very talented results from everyone.

[Serissa]

Im new here, and Im really enjoying playing with the smudge tool in PSP.
I used the smudge tool and some filters for light.

[Neve]

Hi Serissa and welcome.That's a rare result!

This is my first serious effort to try a sketch in Painter and glad I went through the exercise even though it took almost 4 hours. The first image is the result of using PowerRetouche B/W Studio Plugin and then cloning from that in Painter.

It's not so easy, is it, to maintain the correct shape/contours? In PSProX there was a lot of fine dodging and burning, also minimal amounts of Smudging with a chalk brush.

[Legacy~Art]

Serissa - Welcome to the forum, lovely bright picture, hope to see more of your work!

Neve that is nice! You need to do us a tutorial too! I will bribe you some melted chocolates!!!

Sorry Catherine i kind of agreed with Craig, he looks now like hes got lipstick on, maybe tone it down alittle, shame as your picture is gorgeous! Be different if it was a little girl i guess!!!

[raniday]

Hmmm, Craig and Legacy Art, I layered the painting over the original and erased down to the lips, expecting to find a color difference, but I flattened the layers, and the lips became the same shade once more. It's not a matter of my having colored them. Sometimes colors play tricks on our eyes.
Here's the erased version. I can't tell much difference.