I did some extensive reworking in photoshop. I went too far really. ended up with too much blurring in some places, the skin tones are maybe a little too pale now, but I'm through messing with this one. I just wanted to see how far I could transform it. Kind of ironic that I gave her a nose job... it's crooked, but then her nose IRL is crooked (the other way though I think). The bottom of the nose should have been tilted up a bit, but oh well. Lots of things I don't like about this, but lots I do. I think the main thing I learned is that my skin tones tend to be too oversaturated, shadows a bit too dark... all killing the sense of unification in the skin tones.Now that photoshop has shown me that, I can pay more attention to it in the future in my paintings.
2 comments:
Mike, the original is wonderful! Tough love here, Your better than you obviously think, the photoshop rework ruins the quality of the the original. Her nose was just fine before. I vote for the true pastel, I don't know what you thought was wrong with it but, the rework messed it up!
Trust your original instincts, I liked them much better.
Hah hah! Not a fan of pale blondes huh? Actually you've never seen the original... none of the scans reproduce it perfectly. But I like the smoother look here too.... that paper is too heavily textured and leaves too many nasties all over the skin.
Apparently you're not familiar with Joely? It actually looks a lot more like her now.
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