http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif Thanks also John, gidget, Nikolai, Lilu and Soquili!
gidget -- Thanks! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Lilu -- Your comments are so kind! I don't think I will ever feel I am a great painter, but I keep trying to improve. I like your works too!
Nikolai -- Hi and thanks for your kind comments! This new portrait was part of another one in which I took a dual portrait and created a single subject one through use of Photoshop techniques (this also answering part of Soquili's question) = I painted in more jacket and shirt and sleeve where there was none originally and matched it to the look of what was painted there on the canvas. For the background I wanted a more out of focus, softer effect, and there again, I used PS to simply soften the coloring.
Soquili -- Your encouraging words are most appreciated too! As I described to Nikolai above about this piece I used PS to enhance and create a single portrait...it was a great way to add more jacket and clothing details which weren't in the other picture before, and easy to do with the color picker and adding a bit of gaussian noise for texturing that fuzzy polartec cloth. The background I just softened much the same way using the blur setting to suit after marking/lasso around the area to be affected, add 3 pixel feathering then just the right amount of blurring filter. The missing background was made with just filling the background with a mid tone of one of the blues and painting in what needed to be matched. I also cropped the portrait and added a digital sig for posting. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif I can't consider myself a master at painting or with any digital media, but I manage to get the results I'm after so I'm happy. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Thanks sooo much everyone!!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
---Maya
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
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