Creative Portraits: Kids, Jeannie

[philbach]

Well I copied the background layer after selecting Jeannie. I then applied an action that I posted earlier today called "Isabels_Pastel_Sketch.atn to Jeannie. This creates a nice sketch effect. I then worked some on the background and softened the edges some.

[Neve]

Whilst I'd decided to have another go at this lovely wee lass today, I return here to find amazing posts. Wonderful efforts Phil and Legacy
Jaykita, if I had a hand, no matter how small, in encouraging your result, then I'm chuffed! What an amazing result and I hope you keep up this wonderful work because it's definitely a style all your owns.

After about 3 hours I finally did her again. Wanted another go at her hair especially and this was much more to my satisfaction this time around.

Painter 8.1.

Oils/Round Camel Hair/Hair- Cloned
Oils/Smeary Bristle Spray/Hair again - Cloned
Oils/Fine Feathering/Picked a pale colour from
Color Set made from original image and drew
Wispy hairs all around at 1.5 pixels.
Blenders/Soft Blender Stump/Hair

Cloners/Wet Oil Cloner 10
Selected color from set and filled in
Entire face area. (I find it easier to have a
Colour layer to work on rather than white)
Blenders/Soft Blender Stump/Face

Cloners/Wet Oil Cloner 10 – Face
Repeated over face 2/3 times including
Hairline.
Cloners/Soft Cloner/Eyes, Mouth, Blue Top.

[SWEngineer]

Neve, your latest effort is stunning. It looks very much painted, not cloned. I'm very impressed (and maybe a bit jealous).

[Neve]

Thank you, you're being very generous. You know something, as far as I'm concerned if I can do it so can you. Perhaps where I benefit is that I am under no pressure at all "time-wise" and have the time to devote to doing this patiently no matter how long it takes me. Glad you liked it...this time, so did I....

[philbach]

Neve, marvelous. It really does look like a painting instead of a photograph. Very nice coloration, background, and effect. Thanks for posting it.

[Legacy~Art]

I join Mark...

Neve i think you need to do us a tutorial on how you did that step by step i would love to be able to achieve that, it looks like a victorian girl you know the ones you find on old candy tins...

Well done Neve!!!

[DannyRaphael]

You've outdone yourself, Neve, and raised the bar for all of us.

Very, very nice.

[Neve]

Many thanks for viewing and commenting Phil, Legacy and Danny. I can't thank you enough for your kind comments which are very encouraging indeed.

Phil - Danny pointed us in the direction of a free filter recently (thanks Danny), PR Brightness, and I knew immediately, for my own needs, that this was a great filter to have for doing postwork on photos prior to painting. I've used this filter on both posts here that I've done of Jeanie. The filter not only strengthens colours, but successfully lightens shadows. Although after using this filter the photo seems slightly over-exposed as it were, it does not affect what you do in Painter at all, but provides, what seems to me good colours to work with whether you are cloning, or decide to make a colour set of your image in Painter and then paint more from scratch.

Legacy - yes, I thought just the same after I did the first one of Jeanie, that it looked Victorian, much like watercolour illustrations I've seen in the People's Friend Magazine! Oh gosh, write a tutorial. I take my hat off to those who can and would be nowhere without their tenacity in doing so, but I'm afraid I don't possess that skill. One thing I will say is, that in Painter you need to be able to use your own creative instincts to a large degree, be prepared to experiment and don't rush. Stay alert to using as many layers as you need as you work - I am still making errors in this regard by becoming too engrossed at times and finding that I am working on the wrong layer or should have created a new one.

Thanks again.

[Duv]

Extracted the background. Ran Neat Image. Imported to Painter 8. Applied background and ran Surface Control: Apply Lighting. Back to P.S. Impressionist: djrOil24/25/95/104

Cheers
Dave

[vijayan]

Duv, that is fantastic......love the result..
thanks
vijayan

[Neve]

A mighty effort Duv

[lkroll]

Potrace vector conversion saved as a bitmap using Inkscape. Embedding into frame to bypass size limit (137K).

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2...yjaques6tt.png

[lkroll]

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[patriciakay]

Hi Ikroll,
I love this effect you have done to the pretty girl....but all those numbers and letters....hmn...way above my head.....have seen some of your other works of art on my travels through the retouch and i have got to say i am impressed....only been with since November but have learnt so much already....thanks....

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL....

Kind regards Patricia Kay.

[lkroll]

....I depend on plugins. LOL

Originally Posted by patriciakay

Hi Ikroll,
I love this effect you have done to the pretty girl....but all those numbers and letters....hmn...way above my head.....have seen some of your other works of art on my travels through the retouch and i have got to say i am impressed....only been with since November but have learnt so much already....thanks....

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL....

Kind regards Patricia Kay.

[Kraellin]

lk,

love the potrace/inkscape one! very nicely done!

and thanks for the links to those programs. i'm with you, MORE PLUGINS!

craig

[Steve Conway]

Unfinished portrait.

Steve

[lkroll]

And the help of Paint Engine, PS's Chrome, and GIMP's bumpmapping as well as Xero's Supersmooth filters, to name a few (yes, I have some trade secrets; I forgot all the filters I used. ). Many mouse smudgers later, below's the result. If you like, you can click here for a higher quality version.

[Bob Nolin]

What a lovely image. Hard NOT to paint it, it just paints itself. After adjusting a tad in Photoshop, used Painter 9. Background and hair is Artist's Pastel, skin is Soft Charcoal, sweater is Cap. Bristle. Edited out the lower right stuff in Painter (painted it out).

[dkcoats]

Lovely kid...

Simplified
Painted some detail back in
Impressionist something-or-other
Pattern stamped some undesirable Impressionist artifacts out
Impressionist again using a slight variation of a preset I'd conjured up earlier today trying to achieve a sort of, well, Impressionist look. Faded that back a little.

dc

[palms]

Gave the ahb a rest this time and tried smudging again for a change and a b & w

[patriciakay]

Hi Palms....Your smudge work is great...will have to pick your brains on your lovely face painting....love the black and white too....

Pat

[Peter S]

Usual thing from me but with a texture this time.

Peter

[lkroll]

Doing two this time: a fine art and a stipple.

[sylvia1065]

Nice jobs here!!!
I did mine with Photoshop, mostly with layers of levels, saturation, highlights/shadows and added new background.
Sylvia

[lkroll]

Really nice Sylvia.

[sylvia1065]

Thanks Lyle!
Love your new stuff, here and in the other forums!
Sylvia

[Peter S]

Sylvia that is really really very good. Like it a lot.

Peter

[sylvia1065]

Thanks, Peter, glad you like it!!
Sylvia