I have spent the last three days, friday saturday and sunday, in a Church, displaying my digital art. The event was an Art and Crafts exhibition in a local village Church. I decided to take my Computer, and I painted a portrait from scratch as people watched. I didn't sell many paintings, but could have sold a lot of computers! The painting took all of the three days because I was constantly explaining what I was doing. Some people had great difficulty understanding what I was doing, and without the computer, I think a lot of people would have gone away thinking either they were a sort of photograph of "real painting" printed on the computer, or photographs messed about.
I saved the stages so I thought I would post them.
This is the original image from the ref library, courtesy of
sultry.
I rotated this in Photoshop and started with a sketch.
I realised later I had her left eye too far away from the nose, which I altered as I painted
The first stage was to lay some colour using the tint brush so that my sargents brush would work. It seems to nedd some colour to pick up.
I saved 11 stages all together . This is stage 4
Stage 6
The strokes on the BG were because I was demonstrating aspects, such as the separate bg and how you could clone through, which I later painted out.
stage 8
I painted the necklace on a separate layer, though I don't think that is necessary. With constant interruptions, it was easy to start repainting on the wrong layer!
Finished portrait:
I blended by increasing the jitter and sometimes lowering the opacity of the brush.
The only problem is that the last two images didn't come through. Could you post them again? Please?
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