Creative Portraits: Dreamer

[jch71566]

What a cutie!

Did some contrast adjustment, sharpening, vingnetting, and softening!

Enjoy!

[makeovermagic]

i couldn't resist either -- here's my go at this beautiful child.

[OnAir]

Originally Posted by Swampy

RANT... I note that some are not giving us better detail about how they accomplised their "mission" Lovely, to look at, but not much to LEARN from.

Considering to what Swampy has said
This technique could be suitable to make mixed watercolor and charcoal sketches from the photograph.
Generally, it is simple. You have to make a layer for the paper, make it transparent a little bit, just to see contours of the image and start drawing. Here are some tricks for it. Use tonal selection of the image, when you draw: guaranteed, that your painting will be close to the photo, but there is a dangerous thing. Don't try to be very precise, stay on the edge of sketch look, or you will get a kind of 'filtered' photo as a result. I've used tree source channels for selection: one - normal (key combination for Mac command+option + ~ ) , one - soft looking nearly hi-key channel for the fill with tone, gradation etc. and third - contrast for finish look - very detailed. Adjustment could be made with the curves.
1. Load normal channel and start drawing contours. I use standard charcoal brushes, Shape dynamics on, control - pen pressure, scattering - on, textured (Wrinkles), dual brush - on, other dynamics- on, wet edges -on.
2. Continue drawing, use different size of the brush, to make more strong strokes. Very useful to have different layers for different brushes, to have a possibility to go back at any time.
3. Load soft selection and start to fill. I use layer with low opacity, about 20% and quite big wet brush with 100% opacity.
4. Load contrast channel and give a final touch to the image.
5. Colorize in at your own taste, using standard three colored layers technique, as a source image I've used normal channel.
Here is another sample of this technique.

[Swampy]

Frank! Great interpretation!! Very well done!

OnAir... Thank you for that great mini tutorial. It's a wonderful technique and I have grabbed your post as a text file and added it to my "hints and tips" folder! I hope to be able to play with your method more this afternoon.

[Gina_D]

This is my take on this sweet little one.

I applied a color balance adjustment layer, did a couple curves adjustment layers, one of which I masked out for the vignette effect. Also softly highlighted a few areas on the face like the cheeks. Lastly, I enhanced the eyes delicately to accentuate them with a bit of darkening at the outsides of the irises and whitening of the eyes. That's about it! Enjoyed this photo.

Gina

[DannyRaphael]

Swampy...

Great results and supurb "how to."

Well done.

~Danny~

[Gina_D]

Danny,
I like the way you emphasized the eyes in the otherwise high key image... very nice.

Gina

[Swampy]

Very nice, Gina_D. You captured her well and the sepia look is very effective.

[palms1]

It just goes to show that i know nothing, I thought this photo (all though cute ) would be a tough one to do anything with, but you have all proved me wrong , there are some outstanding postings here, great work everyone

on my humble offering i have
posterized, overlayed a colour and pattern

Palms

[msfrigyfrog]

basic colorization

[familytreephoto]

Originally Posted by msfrigyfrog

basic colorization

nice colorization on the lil girl - the only thing I can see is maybe the whites of the eyes

[byRo]

Danny, you're spoiling us. Wonderful photo to work on.

Though I'd sharpen up my AHB pencil set.
Had to crop in to show the details, but maybe that was a good idea anyway.

Rô

[Nanls]

All very nice. NIce colorization Frog. Very pretty Alcar. Nice technique OnAir.

Old Fashion Color scketch effect.

~Nancy~

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[Kraellin]

such a delightful picture, just had to have another go.

craig

[Kraellin]

nancy,

i like that. it also reminds me of something i saw years ago and i cant quite put my finger on it. it was a good thing, though almost a cameo...maybe that was it.

craig

edit: in fact, if someone wants a challenge, do the image up as a cameo broach/necklace.