Next Portrait

05-11-2005, 04:15 PM

Next Portrait

CB asked me to explain painting in PS to him again, and that got me wanting to do another portrait piece, this time in PS. It's at a huge resolution, so you'll see it a lot better if your browser automatically fits images to your screen.

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05-11-2005, 04:25 PM

looks great so far. Man that is at a huge res!! looks really good on the thumbnail too

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05-11-2005, 04:35 PM

very nice

wat is in the far background thow?

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05-11-2005, 05:08 PM

Ear looks just a tiny bit off

but It's wicked man. Great job.

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05-11-2005, 08:43 PM

Thanks for the comments. I've spent two art class periods on it, so that equates to about 80 minutes worth of work. When I'm finished I'll post the sketch I painted over and maybe try to explain how I painted it.

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05-11-2005, 10:33 PM

Yeah i would definately like to see a bit how you work. I like the overall feel of the picture. And i also like the background, the landscaping looks real, probably becuase of the depth used.

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05-16-2005, 07:20 PM

Are you using the same technique you were explaining?

That actually looks sort of like my uncle Robert. Do you have something set that's seperating the brush strokes...? I mean, I guess it's most visible in his hair where you see a lot of dots rather than a smooth stroke. Is that intentional?

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05-16-2005, 07:29 PM

Yeah it's exactly the same thing I showed you, and no that effect isn't intentional. Brushes, by default, have a spacing of 25%. It usually isn't noticeable, but the huge resolution makes it obvious. I reduce my spacing to 15% to make it less of a problem, but I can't set it to 0 or something small without ruining the technique and slowing my computer down. Basically I just have to go back over the obvious parts with the smudge tool. It's a big downsize to Photoshop.

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05-16-2005, 07:44 PM

Okay, didn't know that. Does painter have that problem (akule, painter, remember, k?) And what is the final resolution going to be? It's not noticable at all when my browser shrinks it down.

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05-16-2005, 08:57 PM

Painter shouldn't have that problem, but I've never worked in big enough resolutions with it to actually know if it does or doesn't. Painter seems to treat its canvas more like a coordinate system than Photoshop. In Photoshop, an image of the brush you're using is put down after you move your mouse a certain distance or speed. In Painter, the program records where your mouse has been moving and then tries to connect the points it recorded with a brush stroke. (That's why in Painter you can have the program play back an animation of an entire piece from start to finish.) Anyway, that being said, I don't think Painter has the same problem.

I always work big so I can scale things down, so I'll probably give it a nice 72 dpi size for online viewing and a 300 dpi size for printing.

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