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Old 10-30-2009, 01:28 AM
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Creative Portraits: Ali on steps

It's been awhile since I posted a pic of my daughter to work on. I'll bet there will be some creative interpretations of this one.

Have fun!
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:43 AM
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Re: Creative Portraits: Ali on steps

You must be a mind reader Danny, the last Ali photo has just had more added to it and i thought she would of grown up more by now and she has.
Lovely photo of a very pretty girl
And i expect there will be loads of interpretations

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Old 10-30-2009, 09:02 PM
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Lovely young lady with a wonderful smile.
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Old 10-30-2009, 09:08 PM
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Re: Creative Portraits: Ali on steps

I had fun painting her last time and just as much fun this time.
She's beautiful Danny!

Click here for full size.
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Old 10-30-2009, 10:18 PM
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Had to do some contortions for the cameo pendant.
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Old 10-30-2009, 10:45 PM
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Re: Creative Portraits: Ali on steps

All great, John's a fabulous monochrome for Valentine's Day, no? but Jordan's was incredible. No less so was Kyle's. That's really a teriffic use of digital editing... A++ for originality.
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Old 10-30-2009, 10:47 PM
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You not the first person to call me Kyle Veronica; lol

Thanks for the comments by the way. Sort of branching from my wax phase (as a few of you already know about my binge). Similar technique, so why not.
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Old 10-31-2009, 01:24 AM
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Re: Creative Portraits: Ali on steps

All nice interpretations.
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Old 10-31-2009, 01:37 AM
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I hate dentists. Go to your happy place Ali!
Sorry it's a meditation joke.

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Old 10-31-2009, 06:52 AM
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but Jordan's was incredible
thank you Veronica!

nice one Alex, love the colors
Joe- nice change of background (hey- you didn't flip her)
Lyle-very cool cameo
May I suggest it would be even more convincing if it was whiter? Just a thought.
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Old 10-31-2009, 08:09 AM
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I thought about that Jordan, but the gradient technique that I wanted to use to light it up caused too much loss in contrast (and reduced the gloss effect).
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been too long..........the wait for a pretty girl
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Old 10-31-2009, 10:18 AM
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Danny, you got a cute little girl. So many nice entries. Mine is probably not very "artsy" when compared to others. If details are requested, just ask.
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Old 10-31-2009, 12:32 PM
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Re: Creative Portraits: Ali on steps

Hi everyone,

These beautiful creative portraits.


I created watercolor, vibrance and blur background.
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Old 10-31-2009, 04:16 PM
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Very nice picture and great interpretations!
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Old 10-31-2009, 04:21 PM
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Re: Creative Portraits: Ali on steps

Lyle, I like that a lot!

I just cropped and cleaned then added SnapArt Impasto Portrait
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Old 10-31-2009, 09:48 PM
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Re: Creative Portraits: Ali on steps

i did a little cleanup and aspect ratio correction and then went to another program. how bout a little impressionist?

and i did a second one, a little simpler
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Old 11-01-2009, 01:37 AM
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Re: Creative Portraits: Ali on steps

Here is my interpetation

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Old 11-01-2009, 03:59 PM
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Really nice image.Love your version Lyle, very unique.

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Old 11-01-2009, 04:28 PM
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Thanks Grant. Got a little tired after virtually carving and polishing the stone. lol

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Old 11-01-2009, 04:48 PM
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Re: Creative Portraits: Ali on steps

Some nice stuff going on here.
thanks for the play Danny.

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Old 11-04-2009, 06:22 PM
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Have you ever noticed that when you upload to a site, the results you see are not what you expected to see? I think it's the monitor-gremlins at work again. That may be the case here. Well, I liked the idea in concept but am not too sure in the translation.
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Old 11-04-2009, 08:05 PM
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Re: Creative Portraits: Ali on steps

Even some more wonderful renditions since I last looked. Anyway, thought I would go back to the artistic side and did a colorful monochromatic pencil interpretations (high compression; oh well).
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Old 11-04-2009, 08:25 PM
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Here is an AHB version.
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Old 11-15-2009, 09:28 AM
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Re: Creative Portraits: Ali on steps

Color changes, impressionist to blend "unlike" areas of paint style into a more consistent paint style overall.
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Old 11-15-2009, 06:14 PM
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Paul- great splashy paint look!
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Re: Creative Portraits: Ali on steps

Thanks Jordan, I really wanted to change the color palette for the whole image so that it felt more painted than photo-manipulated.
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It's been awhile since I posted a pic of my daughter to work on. I'll bet there will be some creative interpretations of this one.

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Such a lovely photo of a beautiful girl, I shall have a go at the smudges I am very new to the smudges mind.

thanks for sharing


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