Creative Portraits: A face with character

[Janet Petty]

This older gentleman kindly gave me permission to use his picture on this forum. I think the face shows a lot of character even though there is considerable glare from his glasses.

He is a woodworker and makes wonderful wooden spoons and spatulas for Dutch oven cooks. I have a few of his pieces; and they are treasured additions to my kitchen.

Have fun artifying his picture.

Janet

[lkroll]

Thanks for the play Janet. I did some smudging (very little) too, but mainly I used Sharp Control, Autotrace (converted to bitmap in GIMP of course) and some Hue/Sat adjustments.

[lkroll]

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[Janet Petty]

[Swampy]

Ikroll.. up to your ASCI tricks, huh?

[lkroll]

....time to time.

[palms1]

Janet a great character study not sure what you would call what i have done to him ( although someone has vokluntered messy ! )

Palms

[Janet Petty]

Palms, I don't think it is "messy" at all. I think it quite bold and refreshing. I like the way the lines and colors work together. It all fits.

Janet

[Steve Conway]

A black and white version.

Steve

[dkcoats]

Nice pic, Janet, and nice work by everybody so far.

I did pre-and-post work in CS2 (Crop & Draganizer action before, texture, d&b after), artifying in Artweaver.

Had to compress the livin' daylights outa the poor thing to get it under 100k.

dc

[DannyRaphael]

Lyle... I think yours kicks ASCI! How'd you DO that?

Palms... I especially like this effect. How'd you DO that?

[palms1]

Danny pull up a chair its a bit of a long story
On the nikoncafe forum there is a post about using the pOpArTISt action (mike finns) but going back in the history to get a certain effect. while looking at this i stumbled on doing this effect
which is
run the action
go to history and select the last one called pop and smudge/smear the hard lines
open new layer and use the history brush which brings the art layer through
by doing this on a new layer you can erase any lines that you dont want

and that is it basically of course you can vary opacity's do other effects etc
on this one i applied graphic pen (not sure which layer though now ) It is really easy again some photo's work better than others

Palms

link to the thread on nikoncafe with link to the action
http://www.nikoncafe.com/vforums/showthread.php?t=83920

[philbach]

Quick sketch brush in studio artist.

[Peter S]

A quick one done in Gertrudis, copied to PS added emboss layer and blend mode screen.

Peter

[pavel123]

Painter followed by color adjustment in Photoshop. Pavel