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thundercake — Stylized Portrait Painting
Published: 2009-02-27 22:19:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 46251; Favourites: 1576; Downloads: 940
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This is just my current method, not necessarily the best way or the right way.To preempt some questions:
- I am using two layers for most of this painting, except near the end when I flatten them.
- I'm using Photoshop CS3. My brushes are up in my gallery for download, but I'm only using one for this painting, my trusty 46 spatter set on dynamic opacity.
- I know about the eye. I was in a hurry.
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Thanks for this. I'm sure I'll find it very helpful. (Also, thanks for the brushes! I'm going to try them out, too.)
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is 'dynamic opacity' called 'opacity jitter' in cs2? cuz i can't find 'dynamic opacity' in my version.
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It's called "other dynamics" and you can set it to pen pressure.
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Thank you so much for your tutorials, they've really been helping me out when it comes to more detailed digital paintings...I really appreciate it!
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This is a really great tutorial, thanks bunches!
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I love your coloring style! C:
This was really helpful, thank you. <3
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Cool tutorial.
Well done, and a wonderful character.
^^
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great tutorial as always alexandra. One problem I always have with tutorials are, how long does it usually take you to finish it? Since when I do my work I keep on thinking "there's no way those people are taking THIS long to finish one piece!" .. just wondering, that's all.
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This painting/tutorial took me about 2 hours. The painting itself probably only took 45 minutes.
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To me it looks like the colors got flatter when you upped the saturation, but it's just a walk-through so it's not a big deal but you might want to watch out for that in the future. However, I may just be seeing things. haha
Oh also I wanted to ask, do you lock your upper hair layer when you colored on it? Just wondering because I do that sometimes to keep my original shapes. Also I noticed you flip your pictures sometimes how does that help?
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Yes, I did 
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Very interesting, with a great final result. Thanks for sharing.
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Yay! I was hoping you'd do a tutorial like this someday
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I've been wondering how you get such consistent results with your portraits, and so this was absolutely wonderful to read. Thank you very much for posting it.
It was surprising to read in your journal that you don't consider yourself to have a consistent style. It's all in the process, and you have a very nice one here that gives great results.
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Thank you, I'm glad you think so
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I always loved step by step processes c: It's just like woah, how do they go from there to there?! lol
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This is lovely--a really great tutorial!
Thanks for making it
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Ooh...very interesting. I may have to try out this method. Actually... I just need to do any sort of practicing with my graphics tablet.
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this really helps in my understanding of your style of painting! I'm glad you made this ^^
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This is beautifully structured and put together! And a really gorgeous insight to how you paint! (I just love to nosey at how other artists do their thing 
Wonderful!
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Thanks. It is so useful to see an artist's process like this.
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this is really informative! Thank you for doing this.
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Gah, i've been trying so hard to figure out how you get that look in you paintings! Thanksyouthankyouthankyou! x)
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When you were showing the steps in the eye, it went from random scribble to thundercake-esc.
I honestly find that amazing.
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This is wonderful! Thank you for posting it! I have one question though, I work with CS2, does it have the dynamic opacity setting? If so where is it?
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It's in your brushes window. Click on "other dynamics" and set the opacity to pen pressure.
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Ok, thank you very much! ^^
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Coolio, this will be very helpful when I come around to trying out painting with Photoshop again! Thank you very much for posting this!
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thanks for posting this!! how exciting!
ps what is underpainting?
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a light sketch that's made before anything else so you know what you're going to be painting over it in the end. it's called an "under painting" because it's beneath everything else =]
xxx
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Awesome tutorial~ makes me wanna practice lineless coloring. ^_^
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what a lovely tutorial 
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You make it look so easy! 
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