Creative Portraits: Lady in Profile

[Kraellin]

very nice, lkroll

i had to have a go at this one too. it started out with, of all things, warp mesh. i raised her eyebrow a bit and gave her a hint of a smile. from there, all hell broke loose used several impressionist presets, lots of blend modes, some blank raster layers with airbrush dabs of this and that and some smudge painting with a smudge brush. there's also a couple of adjustment layers in there; a contrast/lighten and a color balance one and maybe even another contrast/lighten. there were many layers, some of which got turned on and off at different points to find/create an effect. if i had to post the exact workflow it would take up way too much space.

craig

edit: thought i'd touch this one up a bit more. so, i've added a second version.

[Alcar]

This is a watercolor using only impressionist plugin with three styles.
Alan

[Steve Conway]

Our lady of the profile......

Steve

[lkroll]

...the most part, I will be in the home area. I really like the artistic retouch technique the best; I'm very happy that I have this oportunity to have some fun and share with you all. Thanks for the comment Palms.

Glad you liked it too Craig; is that a little smirk that you added to her? (en lieu of a smirk smiley since I do not see one; LOL).

[Kraellin]

lkroll,

well, i was trying to get a bit of a smile out of her, but i can see how it could be a smirk also. a shame; people look so much better with smiles.

craig

[Serissa]

Im using psp7, I smudged, lightened, and added colored pencil.

ETA: Merry Christmas one and all!!

[Janet Petty]

I don't know how I missed this thread the first time around. That makes me late to comment on the renditions prior to 23 December 2005. In any case, I'm impressed with the path this thread is taking. Great work everyone.

Janet

[Peter S]

I finally got round to this one.

At last.

Peter

[Steve Conway]

The lady in profile. Glad someone opened this one again.

Steve C.