Creative Portraits: Dreamer

[DannyRaphael]

A darling little girl in a cute pose. Perhaps you'll enjoy colorizing this one or trying a sketch technique.

Good luck and have fun.

~Danny~

[familytreephoto]

had fun

High res version

[OnAir]

My version - painting with custom brushes.
Hi-res

[byRo]

Beautiful work, OnAir.

Rô

[OnAir]

Thank you very much, it was very good photo to work with.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by byRo

Beautiful work, OnAir.

Rô

Agreed... very nice job OnAir.

On mine I used a combination of effects applied to different layers and combined using layer masks:
* Photoshop Colored Pencil
* Photoshop Find Edges
* Impressionist > Pencil Sketch > Detailed Mono
* Impressionist > Natural > Gauze Underlay

When finished I added a layer of white and knocked out the background using a layer mask. Near the edges of the mask I used Photoshop's Chalk 36 brush.

~Danny~

[Swampy]

Ohh Danny, she's so cute, I just have to pinch her cheeks!

Danny, I love the soft black and white, but, IMHO, the eyes are a little out of sync or a little too strong for the body of the work.

Familytree... The defusion and grain are lovely, but I'm not sure I like the splotchy effect it had on her face, especially around the nose. Otherwise, very pretty.

OnAir, Striking! I love the "punk" hair do.

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.

[Swampy]

I had to play with this one!!

OUTLINE
Duplicated, ran Sketch->Photocopy on the duplicate. Set for normal, turn off background layer

COLORIZING
Two new layers where I painted, face details, and brown streaks in hair area. The shirt area I did in two layers... one for the yellow background and a new layer for shirt details where I did a Select Color for the Shadows (while the Sketch layer was active) then moved to the shirt detail layer with the selection active and filled with red. Repeated the process for a Select Color-Midtones and filled that selection with green. Merged the shirt background and details layers. All layers set to normal.

For the skin, I created a colored gradient of skin tone to white, set the blend mode to multiply and masked out the shirt, face details (eyes, lips, fingernailes etc.) and background leaving the skin tone in the hair and face skin areas.

For The Background, I used another color gradient of purple to peach, and again masked out all but the background set the blend mode to linear burn. I did a hue and saturation adjustment layer to soften the gradient colors and clipped this adjustment to the background mask.

I then merged all the layers and added just a touch of noise to everything.

I Duplicated the Merged layer and ran Artistic-> Rough Pastels. Saved a snapshot (and then Undo->Rough Pastels) filled that Duplicate (that was the rough pastels filter) with a soft paper color, set the history brush for the rough pastels snapshot and painted back the image with a soft 4% opacity chalk brush.

I did a VERY light smudge with a large soft brush to everything except the eyes.

Added texture, signature, matting and frame.

Thanks for the photo, Danny!

[Alcar]

Really nice photo. My interpretation is a pencil portrait that essentially uses painting with white.
Alan

[Kraellin]

alcar,
spot on. very lovely.

dee dee,
very nice.

my own is a simple layer blend with her being in her own layer group with a touch of contrast added. lower opacity on her layer and set to blend mode of screen and then a bit of erasure on her.

craig

[Swampy]

Alcar... Lovely, soft, expressive. Just the way I like 'em :-)

Craig.. What fun! Now where's tinkerbell and a little fairy dust? :-)

[Kraellin]

dee dee,

well, you know me; i like 'different' didnt seem to need faerie dust; the twinkle in her eye was sufficient

craig

[lkroll]

Just playing with Embossworks filter again.

[goose443]

Something Subtle

[Frank Lopes]

...she's wishing for a sunny day.

Workflow:
Window - Stock photo
Little girl - Applied PSCS2 filter distort > glass
Water drops - Alien Skin Eye Candy 4000
Drop shadow - PSCS2 shadow layer + liquify to deform it

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

A darling little girl in a cute pose. Perhaps you'll enjoy
...
Good luck and have fun.

[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.

[palms]

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.