Creative portraits: Long & Curly

Peter S · #1 03-13-2007, 05:33 PM

Another pic from the now dead Eldorado site.

Have fun

larger version of my attempt

Peter

Steve Conway · #2 03-14-2007, 11:56 AM

The mysterious lady in black.

Steve C.

Steve Conway · #3 03-14-2007, 12:38 PM

Cropped version.

Steve C.

palms1 · #4 03-14-2007, 03:07 PM

gone for the moody look

Palms

Peter S · #5 03-14-2007, 05:42 PM

Steve I like the cropped one the best.
Palms I do believe you made her angry. (I like it though)

Peter

pavel123 · #6 03-14-2007, 07:57 PM

Mostly done in Painter.

Kraellin · #7 03-14-2007, 11:51 PM

wow. you guys are good.

that's one of your best, peter.

steve, love the 2nd one. very painted.

palms, you got mood, girl

pavel, also painted nicely.

i went completely south. this one took a long time to find something that spoke to me more than just the gorgeous girl, which, you would think is enough, perhaps. but i wanted something else and couldnt find it... for a while. then it sort of came out of the dark and that's exactly what i ended up doing... something out of the dark.

palms1 · #8 03-15-2007, 02:59 AM

Thank you Peter and Craig,
Craig i see the moodiness is catching although yours is a mystical/astrological type mood and i think it is great

Palms

Steve Conway · #9 03-15-2007, 11:50 AM

Many thanks Craig & Peter.

Yeah I think I like the second one better too.

Steve C.

LonK · #10 03-15-2007, 02:14 PM

Awesome interpretations, gents. Gorgeous gal. She exudes attitude. I went with a sketchy/etchy rendition -- with attitude.

Peter S · #11 03-15-2007, 02:35 PM

Craig what can I say? err looks like one of those SciFi Book covers, keep going south.
Lonk you made her look like Rita Hayworth, Oh dear showing my age again.

Peter

LonK · #12 03-15-2007, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Peter S

Lonk you made her look like Rita Hayworth, Oh dear showing my age again.

I'll have to take your word for that, Peter. I kept thinking Brooke Shields as I was doing it.

palms1 · #13 03-15-2007, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by LonK

I'll have to take your word for that, Peter. I kept thinking Brooke Shields as I was doing it.

I must admit i thought the same as Peter but now you say it Lonk you have it and super image as well

Palms

Janet Petty · #14 03-15-2007, 07:02 PM

In keeping with the moody feel, here is mine.

Janet

And looking at it after it is posted, I can see that the compression took a lot out of the detail. No those are not splotches. They are cracks and readily evident on the full res version. Go figure.

edit: Even after adding the closeup, it still lacks the original. At least one can see I tried.

Kraellin · #15 03-15-2007, 08:34 PM

thanks, palms, peter

that was an exercise that just kept going and going until i hit on that dark bit. i was about 15 layers in before it showed up and it took almost another 15 to refine it. but i like it too and may do more along those lines.

yup, i can see rita hayworth and brooke shields there. and i like that old style portrait look. nicely done, lonk.

janet, the lament of RetouchPRO'ers, 'only 100k'. *sigh*. you could post it in the gallery and get 200k. or maybe post it on image shack or one of those. i'd love to see the full sized version.