Creative portraits: Nice Gal

[Peter S]

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]

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

[Steve Conway]

A sketch and an impressionist.

Steve

[palms]

Not my original intention to go this way but enjoyed the ride
and i wasnt looking over Steve's shoulder honest

Palms

[Steve Conway]

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

Steve

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]

Cutout and xero.
Dan

[patriciakay]

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]

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]

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

What do you think?

Stosh

[lkroll]

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

[DannyRaphael]

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]

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

[palms]

Ok Jimjam messed up for you

Palms

[Peter S]

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

[palms]

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

Palms

[Steve Conway]

Thanks Danny.

Ok..see if I can remember the steps.

Grayscale image & crop. Angled strokes, adjusted midtones to eliminate unwantwed lines, painted out any remaining lines to get close to effect I was after, ran either sharpen or USM and applied mask to edges.

Steve

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

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Steve... I especially like your sketch effect.

Details, please...

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~Danny~

[Steve Conway]

Thank you much. A very nice image to work on. Couldn't resist sending two.

Steve

Originally Posted by lkroll

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

[pavel123]

So many great pieces here, find it hard to comment.


Pavel

[JimJam]

palms1 I agree with Peter S thats no mess up,it's just as nice as any of the others.Nice work pavel.

[서한우]

hi all!!
I'm a korea boy

I don't speak English well, but I can photoshop work...

resizeing (800 * 1047)

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[dkcoats]

All I can say is "wow." Everybody's done great work on this one.
I Artweavered mine after tweaking in PS.

dc

[Kraellin]

seeing some very good renditions here.

to me, the hair is a strong element, but not the strongest. to me, it's that sultry, pouty, slightly antagonistic expression and face. reminds me a lot of a young Sharon Stone.

craig

[lkroll]

The mono really makes it pop. Never thought to do it that way.

[lkroll]

Originally Posted by 서한우

hi all!!
I'm a korea boy

I don't speak English well, but I can photoshop work...

resizeing (800 * 1047)

Mini Homepage

This is awesome. Like it, like it, like it.

[palms]

Thanks ikroll
I agree with you on the other post as well great work, but where are the symbols for his name ? i cant find them, would it be a different set of characters ?

Palms

[lkroll]

Went to Babelfish and it said that the symbols 서한우 translates to "Letter right". Doesn't really make sense; just because I'm part Korean doesn't mean I understand the language.

[pavel123]

Palms,
I don't think you did such a good job messing the picture up. A very neat scetch. So, I went for "messed up" rendering.

JimJam, thank you.

Pavel

[LonK]

Gorgeous gal. Wet watercolorized w/black inked outlines/accents.

[JimJam]

Nobody is listening to me their still doing wonderful work.

[palms]

Originally Posted by pavel123

Palms,
I don't think you did such a good job messing the picture up. A very neat scetch. So, I went for "messed up" rendering.

JimJam, thank you.

Pavel

Sorry Pavel but thats not messed up to me either i like it better than your post before ! ! ! ! ! in fact i would like to know how you did it ?

will have to put thinking hat on tomorrow and see if i can do a more messed up one ( unless anyone else can do a messed up one !)

Palms