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

DannyRaphael · #1 04-19-2007, 06:41 PM

I especially like this one. Hope you enjoy making it into a sketch, painting or whatever you like.

~Danny~

dkcoats · #2 04-20-2007, 04:09 PM

Hellllooooo, anybody home?

Hmmm. I seem to be alone here.

A Twisted Brush sketch. (My sketch technique is a work in progress, I know.)

Thanks, Danny, for the pic.

Peter S · #3 04-20-2007, 05:21 PM

Had to have a go at this one Danny, thank you for posting it.

Peter

Larger version

[img=http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/7564/jesshix3.th.jpg]

alexmeta · #4 04-20-2007, 06:11 PM

Jessica with Gioconda's smile.
Thanks Danny.

lkroll · #5 04-20-2007, 06:16 PM

... an inkblot tonight.

Gilbert · #6 04-21-2007, 08:29 AM

My take on jessica painter then ps texture & frame

palms1 · #7 04-21-2007, 12:49 PM

Just messing around with the ahb

Palms

cazubi · #8 04-21-2007, 02:47 PM

I thought I would try this one.

Cathy

byRo · #9 04-21-2007, 03:03 PM

Nice work everyone - some real nice sketches here.

A bit tricky to put some colour into this, but I had a shot.
Usual stuff. PS -> Painter -> PS

Rô

lkroll · #10 04-21-2007, 07:06 PM

Amplified the colors there using a cool GIMP trick. Dup for total of three layers, Desaturate the Top layer and set to Grain Extract, merge down and set to Grain Merge. Now duplicate this new layer til happy. Anyway, also did some selective colorizing of the hair (since I don't like psychedelic hair color;

) after running GREYCStoration. Here's the hirez, high quality version. Attached is a reduced size lower quality sample.

Steve Conway · #11 04-22-2007, 11:50 AM

Lovely lady.

Steve C.

DannyRaphael · #12 04-23-2007, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by byRo

Nice work everyone - some real nice sketches here.

A bit tricky to put some colour into this, but I had a shot.
Usual stuff. PS -> Painter -> PS

Rô

Hey, Rô...

I'd be interested in knowing which Painter brush variants you used, especially on the hair. That came out great.

~Danny~

byRo · #13 04-23-2007, 07:31 PM

Glad you like it, Danny

I use only Artist's Oils: Wet Oily Brush.
High opacity for hair, lower for the other regions.
By itself the result isn't very interesting, so I take it back to PS for postwork.

I've attached an action that I use to enhance the strokes(the last step would be my home-made equalizer - but that's not inlcuded)

Rô