Another Man's Portrait

[amica999]

Since you all enjoyed painting my previous post, I thought you might as well like this one:

Mine is done with Impressionist

[Peter S]

Since you all enjoyed painting my previous post, I thought you might as well like this one

Well yes of course, but the blown out hair highlights gave me trouble, so just made them disappear.
Though I may have gone a little overboard with the dark theme??

Peter

[amica999]

Peter, no, not overboard at all. I really like that :-) What is your workflow, if you don't mind me asking?
I "fixed" the prob with some multiply layersand masks...

[0lBaldy]

Enough Sad, Suffering, Faces ...
Tis the Holiday Season..
Be Happy!

Going
Around
Nervously
Joking
About

The Meaning Of Life

[amica999]

Now, OB, this face isn't sad or suffering :-)
Looks like you have picked up the highpass/hard light "trick" for the eyes :-)
We lately did have flowers, CATS ! :-), birds etc. so I thought some faces would be nice. Don't have time to take pics lately, not that they would be good, but different :-) Maybe during the vacation I'll have a chance to get some...

[andyong]

Impressionist:
Modified preset Antique Smudge Sepia at 75% layer opacity, duplicated then set the duplicated to SoftLight blending mode.

[Peter S]

Originally Posted by amica999

Peter, no, not overboard at all. I really like that :-) What is your workflow, if you don't mind me asking?
I "fixed" the prob with some multiply layersand masks...

Thanks Amica, no don't mind you asking, but I don't think you'll like the reply.
I'm a slider mover and button pusher, I just try everything at least once to see what happens.
There was a black layer with a mask to darken the edges, some D&B for the facial lines (used Lucis to emphasize these) a bas-relief layer to bring them out even more and several colour tweaks and levels adjustments.
There was more but..............?


Peter

[oltenius]

Thanks Amica! Great pic.
Very nice interpretations from members.
Here's an AHB version.
Dan

[Swampy]

Wow, you all have done some great work. Thanks for the play, Amica!

Desat, recolorize in sepia tones (HSB adjustment), pushed some pixels with Topaz Simplify, masked back in some of the beard detail. Saved and painted with PST.

[Steve Conway]

The man with the unusual hair.

Steve C.

[kilty560]

I hope s Sketch is in order also. Beautiful work everybody.

[amica999]

Great interpretations. Love them all

[Swampy]

Nice high key, Kilty!

[lkroll]

Stringy beard; stringy art. lol

[alexmeta]

AHB Sketch

[DannyRaphael]

Wonderful pic to work with!

I am still experimenting with Akvis Artworks...

On one layer I used Impressionist's Charcoal > Default before applying Artworks. Other layers were rendered using different ArtWorks settings and combined using layer masks.

[DannyRaphael]

Here' another interpretation based on the Richard Ramsey sketch tutorial...

[lkroll]

lol

Did a few of these already. As I said at one of the other blogs, how many of you have not received one of these for Christmas?

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/2...2734vu2.th.jpg

[sylvia1065]

Great picture, Amica
Cartoony look...
Sylvia

[LQQKER]

Lyle - If you don't mind . . .what filter did you use to get that "stringy" effect?

I usually use filters in conjunction with others. I can see a lot of possibilities with what you did.

[Joeven]

Here's one.

Joe

[palms]

Another one of those where i have thrown loads at it first i was going one way then changed my mind again and again ( you get the picture )

Palms

[Kraellin]

treated this in psp first then ran it through a new filter i made in filter forge.

[lkroll]

Sorry; didn't see your request LQQKER. I ran DCSpecial's ICE4 filter followed by GREYCStoration to start things off. I then ran GIMP"S Dilate filter to whiten (and effectively widen) the lines to strings but the result is blurry. I followed with a sharpening step and voila, you get stringy.