Jon by Zargent

2D • Portraits • posted on Mar 24, 2004

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I think I must be the only person on Renderosity that uses this way of portraiture. I follow the following steps.
Step 1 : Start in Photoshop and get the "pose" right, align the facial features and decide where the light source will be. I prefer not to do this on paper because on the computer is much faster to "move" a nose or an eye. Normally an eye/nose in the wrong place means eraser work or a start again if you are doing the planning on paper.
Step 2 : Print out the "template" that you just created in Photoshop. Dont print it in black. Use a light gray. So now you have a "Ghost template". Because I am a much better pencil artist than a computer artist, I normally do my shading/detail on the printed Ghost template. If I had a Wacom graphics tablet I might have tried this step on the tablet, but at this stage I am stil much more comfortable with a pencil than with a mouse.
Step 3: Scan the image back in and color it. I normally color everything in Painter, but the choice is yours.
Step 4: Final touches in Photoshop.

Comments welcome.

Comments (13)

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Lary

2:44PM | Wed, 24 March 2004

Excellent work! I like it!

ab39z

2:54PM | Wed, 24 March 2004

Nicely done! And, I say, whatever it takes to get the image realized on paper, screen, whatever. We all have different methods and preferences. Some might seem unproductive, irrelevant or inefficient. What matters is that our individual methods work for each of us.

xina

2:54PM | Wed, 24 March 2004

thankyou for the info - you have made it seem easy I'm sure its harder than it looks!

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j-art

5:59PM | Wed, 24 March 2004

great portrait - not to different from the way i work - just one thing, i am the proud owner of a wacom :-) - and let me tell you, such a tablet is just unbelivable, makes the computer really work for an traditional artist (i am a traditional painter as well) - at the moment i really love to play with all this digital toys - ah, wat i want to say is just, a wacom would sure work fantastic for you, should give it a try - again this is a fabulous portrait :-)

Lissa_lei

7:45PM | Wed, 24 March 2004

Hi, I dislike tablets unless they are of the higest quality and have a lot of different pressures. So I agree with you about the pencil. I often use a resolution of 25% so as to keep it soft, but sometimes it comes out too soft. Nice of you to give every one a look at the way your work progresses.The only crit I have is the light on the fore head it looks like a V (inverted) but is very fixable. Otherwise it's very nice.<<<<<<<<< Lina

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8:47AM | Thu, 25 March 2004

most excellent work! amazing.

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ShadowWind

12:26AM | Sun, 28 March 2004

Well drawn and painted, the skin tones are excellent...

NPeters

10:34AM | Tue, 30 March 2004

This is REALLY interesting, and the end result is a wonderful and lifelike portrait. I love to see how others work, and your method is intriguing.

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Varian

6:39PM | Thu, 01 April 2004

Interesting technique and very nice results! Thanks for sharing this.

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Digimon

9:49PM | Tue, 20 April 2004

Great portrait!!! I love that you show your process! Very interesting technique!!

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idiot_sphinx

9:34PM | Sun, 25 April 2004

well done. I would love to know what you are working on now ! I admire anyone who can create portraits from simple image in thier heads. I like to create directly on the computer as well and I don't like the waste of time drawing it out on paper. Although sometimes it helps after I have started to give me better ideas of what next to do and how I want to approach my background. Excellent work and great tutorial !

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