by Lean on Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:53 pm
Kris, I thought you're from Eidos.
Thanks for the comments, Pat, though I don't know where to print that second picture as I really intend to give it to that girl (she's a real person, used a photo of her as base and turned into something like that).
Now for the sell-out. Without any pics, here's how I did both the Jedi Guy and the Painting Girl:
1. Open a photo. The higher the resolution the better.
2. Create a new layer over it, and get the Pen Tool. Select the Shape Layer option. (refer to the Painting Girl as example) I traced the headshape first (the hair excluded), I mean the entire head.
3. Rasterize the Shape Layer and give it a Gaussian Blur of 1 pixel.
4. Then I used the Burn Tool to bring in some shades. (EDIT) What I did here is set the opacity of the Head Layer to 0% so that I'll see my base pic and have the base pic as guide in my shading. Use Midtones only. Set the Exposure to 10% so that the shading won't be too cheesy.
5. Use the Dodge Tool to give the image highlights. Use Midtones and set Exposure to 10%.
6. Do until all parts are done. Simmer your PSD file for 10 minutes.
What I did there is to include my signature in the finished product to make it more painting-like. The Painting Girl took only a few hours while the Jedi Guy took me a week since I'm still thinking on how to do it.