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Hey- here's a portrait I did of a Baseball Fury!



I did this in photoshop, and I hope this helps illuminate how-
1st, I grabbed the photo of the fury on this site, and pasted it into a blank page on photoshop.  Then, setting a transparent layer above it, I drew this line art on top-


Note, since the photo is so dark, and it's hard to know where you're lying down black line, I actually drew it in Neon Green overtop the photo.  Then, once the line art was done, I converted it to black.

Then, I inserted a new transparent layer between the black line art, and the color photo, and by using the eyedropper tool, picked up local color, and drew fields of color using the lasso tool (not the polyginal lasso tool), filling it in w/ the paint bucket.  The color layer, if I stripped away the line art would look like this-



But you don't actually see this while you're working, as that's taking place under the line art.  Once I was happy w/ it, I discaded the photo layer, cropped it to a nice composition, and here you go!

Real,real nice-the one of sully too.Your work is hard to describe-i know they are digital but there is a lot of feeling and emotion in them

Yeah, it comes from years of doing everything by hand.  You should check out my paintings at www.mrdoyle.com.  I think the coldness with a lot of digital art is because those guys didn't spend years doing it the old-fashioned way.  Photo realism isn't the goal, it should be emotion.

alexfugazi wrote: Yeah, it comes from years of doing everything by hand.  You should check out my paintings at www.mrdoyle.com.  I think the coldness with a lot of digital art is because those guys didn't spend years doing it the old-fashioned way.  Photo realism isn't the goal, it should be emotion.

Yeah, i hear what your saying.  It seems too many "artists" these days are afraid to pick up a pencil or brush.  Our civilised world has become dominated by button pushing.  Ive a couple of peices in the development stage which im hoping to post soon (Dont worry Sleepi_lizzie; ive next week off work, so i should get it finished by then.  Just got to keep off the net for a while  lol).

Nice work, Tim.

all of these are amazing great work mate
Keep it up
do you have a tutorial on how to do these
i really wan to have a go at it

KUTGW 

nice i like it helped me learn how to use photoshop too

Cubs On The Red Carpet wrote:
do you have a tutorial on how to do these
i really wan to have a go at it

Other than what I posted above on seperating out the layers, you really gotta learn by doing, you know?  Photoshop is a CRAZY program, with a million little details.
If you have any specific questions, I'll give it a shot.