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Old 04-19-2007, 06:41 PM
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Creative portraits: Jessica

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

~Danny~
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Old 04-20-2007, 04:09 PM
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Re: Creative portraits: Jessica

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.
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Old 04-20-2007, 05:21 PM
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Re: Creative portraits: Jessica

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

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Old 04-20-2007, 06:11 PM
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Re: Creative portraits: Jessica

Jessica with Gioconda's smile.
Thanks Danny.
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Old 04-20-2007, 06:16 PM
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Only can muster ...

... an inkblot tonight.
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Old 04-21-2007, 08:29 AM
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Re: Creative portraits: Jessica

My take on jessica painter then ps texture & frame
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Old 04-21-2007, 12:49 PM
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Just messing around with the ahb

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Old 04-21-2007, 02:47 PM
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I thought I would try this one.

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Old 04-21-2007, 03:03 PM
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Re: Creative portraits: Jessica

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

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Old 04-21-2007, 07:06 PM
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GREYCStoration smudge.

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.
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Old 04-22-2007, 11:50 AM
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Lovely lady.

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Old 04-23-2007, 06:51 PM
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Re: Creative portraits: Jessica

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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

Hey, Rô...

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

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Old 04-23-2007, 07:31 PM
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Re: Creative portraits: Jessica

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)

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