Creative Portraits: Niki

[DannyRaphael]

Steve:

A+ on the writeup! The Art History Brush has always has seemed to be a tool with so much potential. Your subtle touch proves it.

Something to try when you're feeling wild and crazy: Create a new layer and fill it with white and a blank layer on top of it. Turn down the opacity of the Art History Brush brush very low (10%-15% or so) and keep the radius fairly small (5-15 px) and paint in some strokes on the blank layer. Then create a new layer on top of that one and set the layer Blend Mode to Multiply and paint some more. You'll get kind of a watercolor-like effect from the overlapping strokes. Keeping things on separate layers gives you flexibility in the end

Anyway, glad to see you're on a roll.

Question: Are you running Windows by chance?

~Danny~

[jaykita]

I did this in an older version of corel painter, fractal painter4. Used some artists clone brushes. Took surprisingly little time. (I quite like the unfinished look!) Its a great program.

[DannyRaphael]

Very painterly effect. Painter's clone brushes are very powerful.

For the benefit of those who don't have Painter, its "Cloning" brushes work conceptually like Photoshop's Art History Brush, drawing color from the equivalent of a snapshot and applying it to a new layer according to the brush settings selected. Big difference: Painter runs circles around Photoship in this regard. The brush options and controls are plentiful and you don't get all the weirdness stroke directions like you do with the PS Art History Brush.

Nicely done, jakita...

~Danny~

[Tiger_Steve]

Originally Posted by DannyRaphael

Question: Are you running Windows by chance?

Thx for comments Danny. Yes, I'm running on Windows (98SE).

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by Tiger_Steve

Thx for comments Danny. Yes, I'm running on Windows (98SE).

Windoze = perfect. You'll be the second recipent of Impressionist as a reward for bravely posting your first pics on the forum and quality detail writeups.

Congrats and keep on having fun.

~Danny~

[jaykita]

Here's a good tutorial on the Andy Warhol effect, for those who havent found this ... http://www.innographx.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1313 written by Jeffrey Rolinc. Couldnt find his site, however.

[bigkidjr]

hmm, am I missing something? where's the art history writeup from steve? thanks...

[bigkidjr]

never mind... just having a senior moment... : )

[byRo]

I'm working out some pencil sketching actions, and this is what I've got so far ......
Comments welcome.
When it's all set up, I'll post it here, OK?

Have fun,

Roland

(action added - Do a good, full-range, grayscale first. Execute in sequence. Layers left open to play around with blending, opacity etc...
Have lotsa fun! - Roland)

[Janet Petty]

Whadda ya mean you'll sharpen the pencils and I can draw? Looks to me like you are doing just fine...fine indeedy. GREAT JOB!

Share your actions???

Janet

[byRo]

Put the action above , together with the 'sketches'.

Janet: new signature, OK?

Roland

[Manjumena]

Really nice action. Thx byRo

[jaykita]

Niki was made with various blends ( one layer was g'blur, one was screen blend )and superimposed with a leaf texture image from ps7. Lastly cloned in Painter.

[JustChecking]

that's a great stuff i see in this thread, ppl!!!


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i tried to do some "wood-carving" style... well, colourized wood-carving
judge for yourself if i got any close to it (huh)

[jaykita]

What i'd like to know is why my 98.8 kb image of niki turned up so SMALL?? What seems to be the problem? Any explanation for this?
Thanks in advance.