Creative Portraits: The Fisherman

[gnarf]

I thought this could look good as a simple honest b\w photo.
channel mixer
curves
photofilter with curves
used lens blur around his face to simulate small depth of field.
added noise.

[Britsdad]

sylvia, like that smudge, alexmeta, love the water colour, gnarf, very dramatic b/w redition. Love them all.
John

[MargaretM]

What great interpretations on this thread! Here's one with liquid ink in Painter.
MargaretM

[Swampy]

Nice Painter work, Margaret. What brushes?

[pavel123]

Great work everyone.
John, like your sargent brush portraits.
Sylvia, great smudge.
Quickly messed the photo in Painter

Pavel

[sylvia1065]

Very well done, Pavel!!!
What brushes did you use?
Sylvia

[MargaretM]

Swampy wrote

Nice Painter work, Margaret. What brushes?

Thanks Swampy. Iused liquid ink brushes of velocity sketcher for smoother details, sparse camel for more textured areas, and sparse camel resist to break thru to the white areas underneath. I like the ability of the liquid ink variety to look 3D - if you double click on the layer name and then increase the amount the look of depth is enhanced. Its easy to overdo, however.
MargaretM

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by sylvia1065

Very well done, Pavel!!!
What brushes did you use?
Sylvia

I usually use many different brushes from different groups, I'm not sure I can remember everything.
Quick clone, revealed everything using soft cloner.
bristle brush cloner
coarse oily blender for hair and bg
round blender brush for face, neck and clothes
used a differnet brush for the beard, probably grainy blender
inspired by John's work tried a sargent brush, looked awful, made two files (one before sargent brush, second after), exported to Photoshop, merged layers with layer mask, added texture

[bbuttry]

I loved this photo. Here's my version in a Pastel drawing.

[sylvia1065]

Thanks for the details, Pavel!
Wow, great job, Brad!!
Sylvia

[Britsdad]

Great job Brad, love the background too. However I think I liked his hair "messed up"
John

[byRo]

Like I had said way back at the top of this thread, this image is great for testing new things.

This is a "cross-platform" 2D / 3D render - looks promising!

Rô

[Britsdad]

Oh god Rô, that's incredible, looks like he's lifting his head from a pool of water.
I know I will regret asking this but "how'd you do that?"
John

[byRo]

Originally Posted by Britsdad

"how'd you do that?"John

I have a "distance" map of a face generated in Poser - a greyscale image that represents the "height" at each point. i.e. The nose is bright, the ears are dark.
I adjusted this map to fit the fisherman image.
Mixed in a bit of a high-pass layer to get some details (like in the hair).
Painted other bits to the required "height" value , like the cigarette to white.

Rendered in Poser on a flat square prop, with the 2-D image as the diffuse colour and the "height" map as the displacement.

Basically that's it!
Ain't easy, but it's fun.

Rô

[Britsdad]

Blimey!!!! just like that.