Creative Portraits: Dreamer

[MargaretM]

Absolutley great variations on this beautiful picture!
Here's my version. Cropped, used Nik Color effex Skylight filter, then Dreamy Pix and added matt.
MargaretM

[Steve Conway]

OK, better late than never.

Here are two possibles.

Steve

[Steve Conway]

Just one more. This image is addicting.

Steve

[Steve Conway]

End Of A Perfect Day.

Steve

[OnAir]

Exactly! Beautiful day it was. And beautiful pictures we have seen

[Legacy~Art]

Thanks Danny shes gorgeous!!!

Mine is a sketch then i smudged then i layered colour to it.

Nothing special, i thought it was gorgeous before any of my attempts on this, you all did a marvelous job it was nice to just look at your gallery!!!

[Nanls]

Originally Posted by 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.

Thanks Craig,
I can see what you mean, has those same brown, beige tones...good idea.
~Nancy~

[MargaretM]

My interpretation is a pencil portrait that essentially uses painting with white.

Alcar - could you expand on the painting with white technique - love the effect.
MargaretM

[Alcar]

MargaretM, here's how I do my pencil portraits. 1. Desaturate the photo. 2. Add a Curves Adjustment Layer and move the beginning of the curve (on the bottom left) straight up until you see the blacks change to gray. 3. Merge Visible and duplicate. 4. Change the foreground color to white and begin "painting" using a soft brush. Start with brush 100% opacity to outline the figure, then cut back to a very low opacity and paint over the whole image. You'll want to keep good detail in the critical areas, such as eyes, nose, mouth, etc. The key to all this brushing is maintaining a good tonal balance. When you are finished, add a Levels Adjustment Layer and move the slider on the left in a short ways just to perk the image up a little. If you have any problems, let me know.
Alan

[MargaretM]

Alcar - thanks so much - I'll give it a try.
MargaretM

[barbara]

simplified, added outline and then cloned
(very nice photo to work on it )

[Kraellin]

very nice, barbara

and welcome to RP.

craig

[Mitch]

I thought i'd add my effort to this excellent series of pictures.

Just PSP X - VP4 watercolour.

Regards to all.
Mitch.

[Northernshadow]

This is a lovely photo to work from!
Danny, I like the way your pencil strokes work,
Alcar, your version inspired me to try something similar, it's really lovely! but it just seems I have trouble not adding color to anything.

-vignetted, saved as a new photoshop file A.
-made a line drawing from the vingnette, saved as file B
-cloned in Painter from both A and B with watercolor brushes and saved as file C
-converted file C to greyscale and made a duotone with a rusty color and white, pasted this back over file C. Set the opacity to about 45% to tone down the color. (really just wanted a tone to it)

Higher res image

[byRo]

Like, Danny said right at the start, this photo is perfect for sketching.
Had another shot at sketching with Painter - liked this one better.

Rô

[Kraellin]

Ro,

i like the fine pencil line look here. the cross-hatching also adds to the effect. very nice!

craig

[Northernshadow]

Ro, did you use the Arcylic Dry Brush? I love the crosshatchy look you got!
I had to try another but got frustrated with Painter and ended up doing it entirely in Photoshop with filters.

Pencil Sketch
-vignetted with white
-I used the curves adjustment layer Alcar suggests to lighten the blacks. (merged down to use as the background)
-used a sketch action to make a line drawing and copied this to a layer over the background (called this layer 'Line')
-duplicated background twice
-Impressionist (Chalk, Chunky Strokes varient) on first background layer (normal merge mode)
-Impressionist (Pencil, Crosshatch Radically colored varient) on the next using overlay mode
-Used Stylize, Diffuse -lighten only on the 'Line' layer which is on top and set the merge mode to multiply
-merged all layers and saved!

YEP! and I LEARN'T STUFF!

higher resolution

[byRo]

Originally Posted by Northernshadow

Ro, did you use the Arcylic Dry Brush? I love the crosshatchy look you got!

No, just the first cloner brush of 'em all - Bristle Brush Cloner.
The "secret" is to up the "feature" setting to about 5 times the normal painting values. That way the individual bristles end up looking like pencil strokes.

The other trick is to rotate the canvas by 90% to maintain your natural sketching motion with the mouse on the table and get youself a nice cross-hatch on the canvas.
My settings....Size 10, opacity 100%, Resat 50%, Bleed 50%, Feature 5.0

Rô

[klassylady25]

I just had to have a go at this one. Used levels to get bring out the B&W. Artistic brushes for the texture and finished with a unique matting. I wanted the studio effect for this wonderful subject. Now all I need is the mantle to hang it over.

[Kraellin]

nice cross-framing, klassy. i like that.

craig

[Northernshadow]

Ro, I haven't even used that brush!
Thanks! Your tips will be very helpful!

[oltenius]

Beautiful photo... and below my young mermaid.

[lkroll]

Will share after I win the sketch contest; well, maybe after the contest is over if someone likes the effect.

[Peter S]

Someone really needs to take a comb to that hair

Peter

[lkroll]

Thanks for bringing this one back Peter. Thought I would stipple her this time. Attached is a crop (to keep it in file size spec). Here's the complete rendering.

[Swampy]

I thought I'd have another go at this one. She's so cute, but I bet she's grown a lot since the last time I worked on this rendering.

My Line Art, Painted in color with multiple color overlay masks. A little film grain, and some curves adjustments.

[Kraellin]

peter, very nice

lk, it's fun watching you move from filter to filter and technique to technique. i've been here long enough to see the pattern very nice, btw.

dee dee, that's just lovely! reminds me of line art painted with water color and the texture of the canvas works with that effect nicely.

[lkroll]

Thanks for the comments Craig. My latest endeavor has got a second wind thanks to my purchase of Amphisoft's filters. Man, it's nice to see that one of our own makes such high quality stuff for us to play with. I'm still trying to pursue my other interest (jigsaw mosaics), but have yet to figure out a simple way to create them. But my mood changes of the fly, so who knows what will catch my fancy. Maybe you can inspire that look which will peek my interest. I really like the stuff that you've shown over the few years too.