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Old 01-13-2009, 01:28 AM
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Creative Portraits: Marcus

When my wife saw this pic on my monitor she said, "He can carry my bags anytime he wants."

I liked it because I thought it would make a good Richard Ramsey sketch method candidate.

Have fun.
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Old 01-13-2009, 01:45 AM
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Beautiful sketch, Danny. I am impressed
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Old 01-13-2009, 02:55 AM
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Cool sketch Danny. Used the same technique (dup {three layers}, ACE on middle layer, Grain Extract on Top layer, flattened and desat) for the overall effect. Then blended in GIMPressionist, and selectively erased around the background and cleaned more the background (weakness to this technique w.r.t., solid fills). Some dup overlays to finish things off.
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Old 01-13-2009, 10:28 AM
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Danny, Palms is going to be your friend for life.

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Old 01-13-2009, 01:02 PM
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Danny, Palms is going to be your friend for life.

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Ha she already is

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Old 01-13-2009, 02:45 PM
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And a quick one for Mrs Raphael who obviously has good taste ( and before Peter says anything she did choose Danny! )

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Old 01-13-2009, 03:55 PM
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And a quick one for Mrs Raphael who obviously has good taste ( and before Peter says anything she did choose Danny! )

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She will definitely like this one, that's for sure.

I'm thinking I may have to dust off the exercise weights and start toning up (reality: maybe in my next life).
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Old 01-13-2009, 08:52 PM
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another good sketch, danny

and, in the spirit of sketches, i did a colored pencil one.
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Old 01-14-2009, 03:47 PM
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You were right Danny, a good one for a sketch.

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Old 01-14-2009, 04:16 PM
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I couldn't help it PS made me do it,

Expectant Dad-to-be

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Old 01-14-2009, 05:16 PM
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Nice work everybody. Having fun there Peter aren't you? Baaaad PS
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Old 01-14-2009, 10:23 PM
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LOL @ Peter!!
(Hmmmm, maybe I shouldn't laugh tooo hard... the chest on down is like I'm looking in a mirror, Hrmph!! )

Just threw together some stuff I had on the puter for this one
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Old 01-15-2009, 10:48 PM
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wow! i really like that first one, peter

and that second one sure makes me feel better about myself
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