Portraits from Photographs

[TwidderBird]

Albacore
really like the 'portrait of your customer'. look forward to seeing it as it progresses. excellant job

LogoKid--really great images!
nance

[Albacore]

Thanks for your kind comments but there is really nothing to it, Ron its just like you tracing your cars, using layers to show the bits that you want to and hide the other bits. Have a look at this AI tut here to see how I do it, its dead easy
http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/24237.html

Hi Twidder, it won't get any better! The point of it is to get the drawing down as quickly as possible using a photo as reference and to trace with and only spend at the most 1 1/2 hours on the drawing, print and frame it and sell to the client at the most £40 ($60) as they would not pay much more than that.

[jason3283]

I can't make fur.

[jason3283]

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[Albacore]

Hi Jason,
I have found the best way to make "hair of the dog" was to have another the beer after the first cup of coffee. The other is to clone the object (ctrl + k) then change the fill to Fractal plasma when the fill control nodes appear move them close together as in the dogs ears shown here and then give it a Transparency. The transparency can be Stained Glass or Mix and sometimes you might put a copy of it to the back to give more depth to your fur, hair, grass, trees ot any natural object. After that you want to use trans. to give highlights to the objects but use mix with a linear colour fill.

[Egg Bramhill]

Jason

What an excellent image. Thank you for sharing both the bitmap & the xar file.

[jason3283]

Thank you