Turning Portraits into Digital Sketches, Oils, Watercolors - - Creative Portraits: Dreamer - Page 4

Kraellin · #46 05-06-2006, 10:45 AM

Ro,

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

craig

Northernshadow · #47 05-06-2006, 11:48 AM

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 · #48 05-06-2006, 12:47 PM

Quote:

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 · #49 05-06-2006, 01:06 PM

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 · #50 05-06-2006, 05:41 PM

nice cross-framing, klassy. i like that.

craig

Northernshadow · #51 05-07-2006, 08:11 AM

Ro, I haven't even used that brush!

Thanks! Your tips will be very helpful!

oltenius · #52 05-19-2006, 11:46 AM

Beautiful photo... and below my young mermaid.

lkroll · #53 05-22-2006, 09:08 PM

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

Peter S · #54 12-20-2006, 03:54 PM

Someone really needs to take a comb to that hair

Peter

lkroll · #55 12-20-2006, 06:34 PM

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 · #56 12-20-2006, 09:38 PM

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 · #57 12-20-2006, 09:50 PM

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 · #58 12-20-2006, 10:13 PM

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.