Creative Portraits: Baby under a Blanket

[glikster]

it's based off of the photo....
I've been playing with digital painting in PS. Unfortunately I'm stuck using a mouse and only working during my free time at work.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by glikster

...during my free time at work.

"Free time at work": Isn't that an oxymoron?

Regardless, this is very impressive -- especially using a mouse. Well done.

[ahutton]

Buzz-Sepia-FP India ink

AmyHutton

[TylerRB]

I normally don't mess with any of the Artistic Filters. But, since that is what is called for here I complied.

First, I blurred the image to reduce some of the noise on the original.
Overlayed a blue tint to the entire image.
Used the dry brush effect (for the first time, mind you).
Played with Render->Lighting Effects to bring a bit of emotion into the image.

Enjoyed playing with things I don't normally.

T

[toodaloo toody]

here are my two attempts

[Legacy~Art]

Wooohoooooooooooo super work...Lovely renditions everyone!!!

Nice to see you Steve not seen you in ages!

[palms]

this is my attempt
selected the eyes
used my favorite dualtone action
then pasted the eyes back on

[TylerRB]

Palms1

I like your rendition. The softness of the tone is soothing!

Tyler

[carriewoeck]

Originally Posted by toodaloo toody

here are my two attempts

Hi Toodaloo!
Nice picture!
Carrie

[carriewoeck]

Did this a while ago when first learning and saw the post here so decided to add my version too. I know, I could do better with the eye by the blanket. Sorry!

[Neve]

Carrie, a wonderful effort, the colours are perfect. There's no "time" limit imposed here so enjoy. We all like to see old threads re-emerge also.

[jaykita]

Carriewoeck, yours is lovely!
Mine was done in painter8 using grainy brushes and blenders.

[carriewoeck]

Thanks Jaykita,
Your version is very nice too. It is amazing all the different styles people come up with. Looks I will have to try this agin in painter now that I know how to use it better.

[DannyRaphael]

Originally Posted by jaykita

Mine was done in painter8 using grainy brushes and blenders.

You're sure getting a knack for adding colors to highlights and shadows. Jeremy would be pleased!

[toodaloo toody]

Originally Posted by carriewoeck

Hi Toodaloo!
Nice picture!
Carrie

I see, your sharing talent here, that is great to see

I have been absent for a spell, but I think I got the painting bug again

lol

hope to see more of your Painted masterpieces

[JLC]

Just wanted to share my creation. This was done using the art history brush and lots of blending layers.

[Legacy~Art]

I think this is my most favourite picture i have ever done on this forum, this is a lovely subject to paint!!!

Nice to see this thread again...

Elle

[Swampy]

You people amaze me. Such great renditions throughout the entire thread! You have covered a lot of bases, but I thought that since this was a little boy, why not give him a blue blanket?

[Legacy~Art]

Thats cute!!! Lovely blue too.

[lkroll]

Sketch and smudge. Used vector simplication techniques for the smudge.

[Nanls]

JlC ... beautiful... love the art history brushes. Love playing with this image... thank you for posting it!

I started with Lucis art and a number of different layers, but thought the effect was too harsh for the little one, so took it into painter and softened the image with artist chalk and caught all the edges, eyes, eyelashes, nose etc. with pencil....back to ps for final touches. Also took the image more to a sepia tone.
~Nancy~

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[philbach]

This application has been giving me fits but it does produce interesting results

[Kraellin]

dee dee,

love the blue

nancy,

very nice!

craig

[Nanls]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

dee dee,

love the blue

nancy,

very nice!

craig

thank you craig, for nice comment. This has been one of my favorite projects, there are so many ways to go with it and you can spend a lot of time with details.
~Nancy~

[MargaretM]

Here's another. Painter for glass distortion, then Photoshop for some cloning and masking.
MargaretM

[Peter S]

An attempt from me to do a sketch type thing.

Peter

[ibowie]

Decided to make the photo high-key and surrounded it with pixel breakdown.

Created a new photo in greyscale and made it a small image . converted to bitmap and then enlarged it again to same size as original. Pasted the bitmap in as a greyscale into an alpha channel. Used it as a selection mask and added the black fill.

[ahutton]

Most of you know I'm a little whacked. I mostly use photos for fodder for very weird pix. I wouldn't call what I do abstracts, as they aren't representative of the original photo. I don't know what I'd call the style, if indeed it is a style at all.

But here is what I have done with this photo. I call it "Beach Play." Feel free to dislike it.

Amy

[JimJam]

Used Photoshops Paint Daubs at very low settings + Impressionist Chalk:Faithful.

[JimJam]

Recently downloaded Inkscape vector graphic editor and played around.

Stars,swirls and the partial circle from Inkscape ....bubbles from Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9 picture tube and applied enamel art effect then opened in Photoshop Elements 2 to add gradient,Virtual Photographer, Find Edges then Texture filters.

Could have done it all in Paint Shop Pro most likely but I had fun switching between programs. Now that I have a good idea of what Elements can do I need to explore Paint Shop more it seems to have much greater width and depth than Elements.

Inkscape looks like it will be great fun.