Turning Portraits into Digital Sketches, Oils, Watercolors - - Creative portraits: Nice Gal

Peter S · #1 10-01-2006, 03:31 PM

found this at http://gallery.use.net.ru/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?misc and thought it could do with a little something.
I don't know if I have given it, maybe you can?

Peter

lkroll · #2 10-02-2006, 10:19 AM

Attached is a very low quality crop. Here's the full high quality rendering.

Steve Conway · #3 10-02-2006, 12:03 PM

A sketch and an impressionist.

Steve

palms1 · #4 10-02-2006, 12:54 PM

Not my original intention to go this way but enjoyed the ride

and i wasnt looking over Steve's shoulder honest

Palms

Steve Conway · #5 10-02-2006, 01:45 PM

I fully understand...just two great minds working together.

Steve

Quote:

Originally Posted by palms1

Not my original intention to go this way but enjoyed the ride

and i wasnt looking over Steve's shoulder honest

Palms

oltenius · #6 10-02-2006, 01:56 PM

Cutout and xero.
Dan

patriciakay · #7 10-02-2006, 04:34 PM

Hello Peter....Nice photo you found for us to play with...Thanks... I like the effect you have got with very subtle colors..
Great Lyle...very modern...
Steve...Both are really good but i do like your sketch...something I need to work on!!!
Great sketch from you Palms...it glows!
Dan...Like the effect...Did you use cut out first or xero???
Where is Alex????

I did two watercolors in Photoshop CS2 with the AHB, the smaller one after i had done the brush work i used highlight and shadows...the larger one I used curves...Framed with an action...

Patricia....

DannyRaphael · #8 10-02-2006, 07:46 PM

Great image, Peter. Thanks for posting it. I moved it here, to "portraits" -- a better place.

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Steve... I especially like your sketch effect.

Details, please...

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Photoshop:
* AKVIS sketch - for the edges/outlines
* Impressionist > Charcoal > Default and Conte > Faithful

Corel Painter
* To add a few brush strokes via Artists Oils variants (set to clone)

Back to Photoshop...
* Clone over a few blobs
* Merge layers
* Apply sharpening
* Several Hue/Sat and Selective Color adjustment layers to mess with the colors
* Added edges via Edit > Stroke command

~Danny~

stosh7 · #9 10-02-2006, 08:45 PM

IMHO her hair is the feature of this portrait. Here's my take. Also balanced the skin tones.

What do you think?

Stosh

lkroll · #10 10-02-2006, 09:00 PM

Fantastic stuff here folks. Steve, I really like your b/w sketch.

DannyRaphael · #11 10-02-2006, 09:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stosh7

IMHO her hair is the feature of this portrait. Here's my take. Also balanced the skin tones.

What do you think?

Stosh

Her hair is definitely eye catching. Nice job on the skin tones, too.

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Inspired by Steve's closeup crop, I took another stab at this one. Based on AKVIS Sketch to which Virtual Painter > Oils was applied for the loose look.

See attachment for layers palette screenshot.

JimJam · #12 10-03-2006, 01:37 AM

This is just not right, someone mess up now,everyone has done a very good job with their take on this photo.

palms1 · #13 10-03-2006, 04:50 AM

Ok Jimjam messed up for you

Palms

Peter S · #14 10-03-2006, 06:54 AM

Quote:

Ok Jimjam messed up for you

Palms

Thats no mess up I like it as well as all the others.
Yeah the hair is the main feature, shame I didn't highlight it more my self.

The site I found it on has loads of similar pics - great stuff to practice on.

Keep up the good work.

Peter

palms1 · #15 10-03-2006, 08:54 AM

Thank you Peter will have to take a look at the site, it is interesting working on people for a change

Palms