Sketch

[Bu]

Sketch from project "Loky's Cards" for website.
Needs C/C and lot of them [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[Bu]

Thanx all!
2Gary
About the arm…. Yep, I now… It doesn’t match the rest of the picture. But I couldn’t imagine how to make it look older than it now.
Any ideas? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

2Christine
Yes, I do it on this bg.
By the way, it’s not a really black background – dark gray. I think black can’t represent depth… Or, at least, not all the time [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] And idea was to make picture a-la Enigma video – do you remember it?

2RAMWolff
It is all Xara [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
See the wire version of picture

All the Best, Bu

[Steve Newport]

I love it!

Steve Newport

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-Featured Artist 2002-

[Christine Farrelly]

An amazing sketch Bu - my only criticism would be the arm - it looks too smooth for such an elderly person.

Did you do it on the black background or just add that after? It is reallty effective.

Christine

[Truroneil]

Bu,

It's an impressive effort. Some have suggested ways to improve the arm. I'm sure you'll come up with a way to age it. What a scholastic, solitary, moody picture. Great. - Neil

[Soquili]

Hi Bu,

Welcome to the forum. You have great technique. The old gentleman has great expression.

If I may attempt to show an idea of how to make the arm and hand look aged. Please excuse the poor attempt at the hand [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

A few elongate ellipses feathered and mix transparency. Overlay with a clone of the original arm shape and use fractle clouds fill and stainedglass transparency.

Soquili

[RUSS-USSR]

Hi, Bu.
Congratulations! Beautiful image!
I understood you wanted to make the book in focus. I would suggest to make a pen and a hand more sharp and to add some light to the neck and the body for to make some details more light then background. Sorry for poor English.

Valery

[gwpriester]

Good to have you in the Xara Gallery Conference.

I agree with Christine that the arm looks too youthful for the arm's owner. But the image is stunning and beautiful and the old gentleman is a wonderful character.

Gary

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[RAMWolff44]

The pages on the book are just too 3D, there have been many that tried to get text to curve and wave like that.

The arm is way too youthful and the hand too!!

Suggestion: How about applying some fractal clouds to the arm to with some transparency to create a cracked old skin texture and add some hair, old guys usually have long, sparce (sometimes not) "furry" forams. He's got a beard and long full head of hair still, so he's got to have SOME hair left on his forarm, don't ya think?? Heck, even females have some sort of hair there unless they bleach it out or shave it off!! Can ya tell I'm a hairdresser?? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

If it is entirely XaraX then WOW!!! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]

Is that a pentacle on his robe I see peering out from the shadows??? I LOVE IT!!! Right on!!!

Richard [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

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[RAMWolff44]

Hope you don't mind. I also added a little bit of shadowing on the forhead.

Richard [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

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