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ehbi — Photo Painting Process
Published: 2013-12-08 05:45:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 2149; Favourites: 66; Downloads: 27
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Pretty straightforward.
1. Get planes of face and shadow boundaries from photo
2. Create a new layer and fill it with med to light gray and begin to fill in the most basic lights and shadows
Protip: it's a good idea to keep the reference photo beside where you are working or on another screen if possible.
I don't recommend painting over the photo itself because that can get confusing!
3. Start to add in the different values found in the shadows (shadows are not just one tone!)
4. Here I am blending in all of the shadows and highlights. I usually turn the sketch off at this point, or have it at a very low opacity.
5. Airbrushed some shadows and highlights in an overlay layer, painted in some more details
6. All done! (I used Iris Blur to blur some of the portrait)
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Comments: 4
Wow - thanks for sharing your process! Amazing.
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What's the point? I understand referencing from a photo, I understand making giant hyper-realistic portraits... but tracing a photo just to make an almost exact copy? Why bother if the result is exactly the same without any sort of interpretation?
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This was my hw assignment OTL I asked my professor the same thing. He says that there's a market for it. Apparently there are people who like this sort of thing for their kids, dogs, etc. I don't really know, honestly. I also think it's pointless, but as long as I get my A I'm fine haha
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A+ excuse if you ask me
As to the market... there is one but mostly in traditional media. With digital painting people usually expect more, because of how easily the same effect could be achieved with much less skills and a few well applied filters. Have you thought of doing the same thing but with trying to apply light from a different angle? That could be a really fun exercise!
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