whoa!!!! just so0o0o0o0o AMAZING!!!!!!! I Love Your Work!!!!!

GEANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Incredible artistry. BIG congratulations to you!!

First of all, incredible paintwork. And there is no way a tutorial can compare to the amount of talent and training you have. When I first saw the image I also found it hard to believe it was Poser based - not that I thought you cheated, it's just that I never thought someone would be skilled enough to make a painting so incredibly realistic. But I wouldn't call this work of art a Poser work. It's about 1% Poser and 99% digital painting - at an exceptional level. And dang, he's a VERY good looking guy, lucky you!

This tutorial illustrates your tremendous skill at orienting and lighting a poser model to match a photo. Even more impressive is your patient positioning of each facial element of the photo with the corresponding element of the poser render, and then brilliant digital cloning and blending with a subtle painterly style. (In a paint program with layers, overlay the rendering with the photo at 50% opacity. Move the top layer around and the iris, eye corners, nose, mouth, ears, etc., match up exactly!) Since you would have achieved a more accurate likeness of your subject by simply digitally painting over the photo reference, you curiously leave it up to the viewer as to the artistic motivation for your technique. The logical next step, poser-wise, would be to "bake" your texture back on to the model, then re-pose and re-render for an infinite variety of portraits. Poser's Grouping Tool actually allows you to do this with the Create Perspective UVs button. Way cool!

Thanks for showing this! I am still so blown away by how perfect this is! I hope you are working hard on more of these because it would be a waste of talent if you aren't....

Could I borrow just a smidge of your talent for a little while? This is just absolutely amazing. I saw the actual photo, and your original (larger) version of this picture. And I'm just stunned! But then again, I'm also slightly biased on guys named Chris with long hair and gotees, as my Husband has all 3 as well :) Great work!

http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/monroy/ -- ok, I looked, didn't see the relevance. Interesting stuff, really enjoyed the art. BTW, Poser was originally intended just to create reference models and for this kind of postwork. I'm always too busy and too lazy (and too unskilled) to finish it up like this, but I'm impressed. Some beautiful work here.

This is simple a photo overlay. Yahoo. A simple reordering of layers in Photoshop shows that the 'poser' core is perhaps no more than 10% of the image. While the hair is nicely done, the claim that this is a poser render is simple not true. This is not a matter of petty jealously, nor is it a blind glowing hail from the "Oh-My-God-it's-beautiful" handjob club. It's a digital manipulation. Placed in a digital photo maipulation forum it would be well seated, but the claim that this is a Poser image is simple NOT true. Period. There are better suited forums for this kind of work. Don't be lead by the nose. And again, nice job on the hair.

This is a bullshit MORPH job. The giveaway was the ghosted ear on the 3rd "frame" This is an insult to real artists. Anyone can doodle over a poser/photo morph and make it look like they "painted" LAME

neotekian - What u call ghosted ear I call postwork, that in case u know what that is but I guess u dont so why bother tell u stuff like this when u obviously have no clue what it means to draw in the first place LOL So, hon, the LAME thing here is u and your comments, not that I care :)

I am in awe... and extremely impressed. You have both my respect and my vote. :o)

They should be and could be anywhere I want them to be virtualicious...

You have excellent postwork skills! This image is a fine example of what you can do with simple dull looking Poser model and the ability to bring it to life with a bit of artistic knowledge and talent. I applaud your skills and look forward to seeing more work of this calibre from you in the future. Thanks for sharing this with us!

i agred with you about your tutorial ! and you are the master!

Alot of nasty commenter's herekicks them up the butt!!lol!I think you work is honest and incredible!!Bring it on forever as you have many more fans than jealous snipers.Im all for constructive critique but the mood is sour in some Ive read! No need for that!!Keep it up addy~~:-)bye calum

Well, I dont care what anyone says... i believe whole-heartedly that you painted this! And what an EXCELLENT job you did!! Congrats on your incredible talent! i wish that I could do that LOL but i doubt that will ever happen. You are one of the best i have seen (high_velx being the other... and i KNOW that he does his on his own...) So it can be done... and obviously YOU can do it!!! Amazing work!!!! Simply amazing!!!! :D I cant wait to see more from you!!! :D hugs ~~Kalli~~

This is truely fantastic .. and also a very cool idea to use Poser as the starting point for making such a portrait. Talent and hard work at the academy .. yes that must be the perscription, unfortunately not all have that oppotunity (or chose other ways, like me now regretting getting not doing that years ago). Thank you for sharing your process, or at least some steps in the process.. your ability to see and create beleavebel and realism is astonishing. Congratulations on an EXCELLENT work of art!

I saw the original, and I was like WOW, now thats amazing. then later, I came back and read "THE" comments, looked at the photo links, and I thought HMMMM. so I saved both to my hard drive, then got my image processor to "flick" between the photo and the poserpost version. there are so many, SO MANY differences its not funny (well, actually it is funny, because people obviously are stupid). I could draw you a picture of a persons eye on canvas that looks just like a photo. but you cant say I cropped it froma photo because it's on CANVAS. you presume that because the image base is digital, that you are being duped, and that the artist is not this good. take a closer look at the photo and the poserpost. the hair is not in the same place, the folds in the clothes are more noticable, the facial angle is slightly different, the eyes are at a different angle, the trees in the background and totally different, the shading on the shirt is less defined. wake up and smell the artwork please

absolutely perfect portrait, so realistic:):):):):)

Best tutorial ever! :D

Excellent! Thanks for this. Wow.

You are an unbelievable artist! I haven't seen anything done in Poser that comes close to the life you have breathed into this portrait. It lookes as if the man is interacting with the viewer as a person would interact with a photographer with a camera. Excellent.

excellent image the best i have seeing here

You are so incredible. Please try another miracle and make him alive for me? ;o) Lol Hugs to you....

OMG.. You are AMAZING! BRAVO

Wow!!!!!

This unbelieveable! I have looked at this picture over and over again today...it's absolutely stunning. Who cares what so-called artists say? They're jealous. lol You don't leave dirty comments as an artist. This is indicated by the /helpful/ notice in the box. lol You are now one of my favorite artists. Keep on doing what you're doing!!!! xoxo Haley

Fabulous !!!!!!!!!!

Geezus! I can't believe how mean people can do anything to hurt and harm an amazing artist like you! :) just feel confortable to know they all would like to be like you.. that's what this is all about... jealousy and ignorance! to hell with them! :D you are an awesome artist... one of the best around here IMHO... Keep up the kicking a$$ work!! Hugs