This is going to be awesome, congratulations by the way. What an honor. I will be following this one closely.

Awe, thanks Annie Highjumper.

Thanks Delo for coming by and saying such nice things…

Here’s my color paint chart I thought I’d post up for the skin tones…

Then I took out my Prismacolor white, although I said I was going to wait till later, and smoothed some stuff out, just to see what would happen. (The nose was getting on my nerves, hand too.) It’s an indoor night pic, looks more colorful in person…
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Here we are at the hair.

First there was an over all tinting of the hair area, same color as the face for the highlights to show through. The highlights did not show so much so I’ll have to do something about that.

Then the paint colors posted were used to make up the hair, in varying strengths, some lighter brownish, some darker brownish, blackish and greenish. I paid careful to the hair pattern as much as possible. I also made sure the shape of that hair was measured correctly – length from all positions from outer and upper edge of hair to where the face begins. If you don’t have this right, then you won’t have the right head shape in the end and the person won’t be very recognizable.

Next I used the brush posted that I special ordered some time ago, although I have no idea from where at the moment. Some artist makes those herself. You can see on the paint colors swatch I posted how it works. I just used it to put in several layers of hair detail… trying to keep some lights left in there per the reference pic.

Now the features aren’t popping enough, but they’ve never popped enough from the beginning, so I’ll have to make some kind of adjustment there.

This pic is an indoor pic – overcast and raining outside, best I could get. The hair rocks in reality, but will still be tweaked with colored pencil and I will have to study up on that somewhere.

Sideburn: Was done with a poking up and down motion, I’ll fill in more little dots around the edges with my cp’s to make it look more like a sideburn, rather than a lock of hair.

Hand : I just took a pic of one of my son’s friend’s hands holding the guitar just so, cause I can barely make out what that hand is doing in the ref. pic. Everytime I blow it up, it crystalizes, so we’ll see how this works to get that hand better looking.

Thank you John, Deb and EC Creep and for coming by !!!

It’s not easy being green.. green skin is tough! Indoor, sideways pic to prevent flashback…. The shirt will be a lot darker.. better note my colors and clean up my mess….

To get the skin the color it is now, mostly Chartruse Green (highlight and brightener) PC989, Apple Green 912 Brightener, Ocean Green 988 shadow.. then the 90% cool grey – mostly to darken mustache, eyebrows, nostral, etc.. little black too, same thing. White to lighten the Chartruse.

You’re aiming for the wrong thing Karen – you don’t want it to [FONT=”Lucida Sans Unicode][COLOR=”Magenta][B]Pop[/B][/COLOR][/FONT] You want it to [FONT=”Impact][COLOR=”Red][B][SIZE=”6]ROCK[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR][/FONT]
Deb

It’s at least got to pop before it can Rock Deb, ha ha ha , good one.

Yes, here I am work wondering how in the heck I got myself into a green Frank Marino pic – but you know what, the boy (I have a high schooler) and all of his high school buddies seem to like it.

Thanks dear Faula and Robert for popping by !!!

“I love rock and roll…”

Nothing like a good ole’ grainy Joan Jett video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL5spALs-eA