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Post by vidal1951 on Jul 16, 2005 0:57:52 GMT -5
Friends, here the tutorial is of... FOTOCARICATURA We begin selecting a good picture, as for size and clarity. We select Penélope Cruz for the karikamanía Contest in Portugal. 1. - We open the picture in the desk. We duplicate the layer. 2. - to the second layer we apply the filter Noise in Drust&Scratches with radius: 5 pix. and thresholdt: 4 levels. We will have an image as if it was colored, disappearing the real of the picture. 3. - we apply the filter Liquify with: Brush size: 10 at 49 Brush density: 18 Brush presure: 26 Here we have to remember our drawing knowledge and technical with the paintbrush, because we will play as if we were drawing or painting in the parts of the face that we want to characterize, to not deform neither to ridicule. To stand out the character so that it doesn't lose the main thing: their resemblance and their personality. 4. - they do the difference with the picture model and as the resemblance she/he stays. 5. - we continue working in the chin, jaw, cheekbones, accentuating and defining certain parts, detailing the minimum thing. In a feminine cartoon importance should be given to the eyes and the lips, mainly. You can change the established values according to their comfort. 6. - we continue working in the size of the lips, since it is one of the characteristics that defines the model. 7. - I use the tool finger to soften the colors of the face in a percentage from a 15 to 20% of opacity. 8. - in this phase we use the tool Burn tool and we enter to draw with a very small paintbrush to stand out the details of eyes, brows and corner of the model's lips. 9. - we continue detailing the eyes and the lips with the tools dodge tool and burn tool. We also use the tool blur tool (drop) to soften the mixtures and to fuse them. 10. - in this phase their caricature should be this way or something similar. 11. - we compare with our model and we see that there is an enormous difference. It is no longer a picture, it seems an illustration and the resemblance stays. I believe that it is a well carried out work. 12. - we couple the image and we duplicate it again. In this second layer we apply the filter gausian blur with value of 50% and with opacity of the 20 to 25% and we put the layer in way multiply. We couple the layers again. We have finished our cartoon and it is clever to send it to the competition. I hope this tutorial serves so that they continue carrying out cartoons of who pleases them. And remember... ...Si I can make it, you also. A hug, Vidal www.vidal1951.ec.nu
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Post by tel5521 on Jul 16, 2005 16:39:12 GMT -5
Hi Vidal I really admire your Photoshop skills - BUT - I wouldn't consider I'd done a 'real' caricature if I had used any part of the subject photo. I'd have the photo on screen or next to me when working but to transpose any part onto the finished work would seem to be - sorry - cheating. Perhaps that's me. I have been guilty of tweeking and distorting finished artwork in Photoshop but that's it ! But that's me and maybe others opinions differ - they usually do. Again nice Photoshop work - thanks for taking the time to show us the process. Terry
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Post by Ricky on Jul 16, 2005 22:06:58 GMT -5
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Post by nialloloughlin on Jul 18, 2005 8:08:34 GMT -5
I admire Vidal for having the conviction to stand over his work, he has developed a unique style which is instantly recognizable as his own, however my own personal opinion for anyone starting out , is to never use the computer as a means of drawing, to me it's like learing to write on a computer, what happens if you have to write a note or sign a cheque you would'nt be able to, and your handwriting skills would be non exisistent, I think you could apply this to your drawing, you must learn your craft like any other be it a carpenter, plumber etc. Vidal has chosen to express himself this way, and having seen some of his other work , he's a great artist in his own right. But my advice would be to draw draw draw and when you've done that, draw some more.
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Post by singleservingjack on Jul 18, 2005 14:08:06 GMT -5
A very interesting explanation of your technique Vidal, I'd seen the picture before and wondered how it was done. Personally, although I use many of the tools you do, I'd agree that working directly with a source image is not a choice I would make.
To be honest as the result is very different I would have thought it was just as easy to draw from scratch? When I'm using a photo I will sometimes sample colours from the image to paint with and the Liquify tool is a wonderful, magically thing - many times I've used it to tweak a sketch closer to what I want.
Anyway, just a newbies 2p ;D
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Post by vidal1951 on Jul 27, 2005 15:06:58 GMT -5
Hi Vidal I really admire your Photoshop skills - BUT - I wouldn't consider I'd done a 'real' caricature if I had used any part of the subject photo. I'd have the photo on screen or next to me when working but to transpose any part onto the finished work would seem to be - sorry - cheating. Perhaps that's me. I have been guilty of tweeking and distorting finished artwork in Photoshop but that's it ! But that's me and maybe others opinions differ - they usually do. Again nice Photoshop work - thanks for taking the time to show us the process. Terry Terry,yo is aware that it is not a work the same as a cartoon, is photocaricature or digital photographic manipulation, but it is real, chord with the technology that we live... ... and I am not deceiving anybody, I have created this tutorial to teach them the process of this new technique. I know how to draw and to paint, something classic as impressionism and expressionism. For me it is amusement and a challenge transforming a picture in an illustration, but before it is necessary to know about mechanisms and technical of art and design, visual communication. To carry out a cartoon is a project. Welcome Terry, a hug and until soon,
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Post by vidal1951 on Jul 27, 2005 15:21:46 GMT -5
vidal great tutorial. I like how you manipulated the photo to make it your own unique digital caricature. you us a computer as a tool - just like some portrait artists uses a grid to get accurate placement to make a portrait. Tools are just a means to an end. Ricky Ricky, colleague and friend, I am happy that you like. It is a very personal technique that thanks to God, nobody is in that road. My positive work is already commented or negatively, but it is commented... ...lo that indicates their positioning. I found a market niche. You can see other tutoriales in www.solophotoshop.com and www.canalphotoshop.com where I was in a 2º place in a fotocaricaturas competition. A hug and until soon Ricky. Welcome to this fascinating and polemic world of the cartoon.
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Post by vidal1951 on Jul 27, 2005 15:30:22 GMT -5
I admire Vidal for having the conviction to stand over his work, he has developed a unique style which is instantly recognizable as his own, however my own personal opinion for anyone starting out , is to never use the computer as a means of drawing, to me it's like learing to write on a computer, what happens if you have to write a note or sign a cheque you would'nt be able to, and your handwriting skills would be non exisistent, I think you could apply this to your drawing, you must learn your craft like any other be it a carpenter, plumber etc. Vidal has chosen to express himself this way, and having seen some of his other work , he's a great artist in his own right. But my advice would be to draw draw draw and when you've done that, draw some more. Colleague and friend, you know that I am a professional and that I know how to draw and to paint. This is my technique, I teach it, but I don't force anybody to use it. To learn how to draw is as easy as to learn how to write. It is a representation language, of communication, of expression... To my students I teach them to draw in one month.I don't transform them into artists. To be an artist it is needed to have talent and the talent is born with the practice. It is necessary to know how to build and not build. A hug, friend. Vidal.
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Post by vidal1951 on Jul 27, 2005 15:46:53 GMT -5
A very interesting explanation of your technique Vidal, I'd seen the picture before and wondered how it was done. Personally, although I use many of the tools you do, I'd agree that working directly with a source image is not a choice I would make. To be honest as the result is very different I would have thought it was just as easy to draw from scratch? When I'm using a photo I will sometimes sample colours from the image to paint with and the Liquify tool is a wonderful, magically thing - many times I've used it to tweak a sketch closer to what I want. Anyway, just a newbies 2p ;D Jack, thank you for your words. I use the photoshop to leave the common thing and to be modernized with the technology that day by day catches us... I agree or with picture like I model. The challenge with this technique is to transform a picture into an illustration and power to wake up emotions and questions. Anything easy!! I invite you to prove it. I am graphic designer, drawing professor and painting. At the moment I direct a Career of Design and I am working with the typographies applying to the cartoons, using alone the letters of the name of the pattern. Welcome to this true school of the cartoon. A hug and until soon, Vidal
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Post by vidal1951 on Jul 27, 2005 16:05:47 GMT -5
Colleagues and friends soon after this good polemic for my polemic tutorial, I present to you a drawing of a nude using a live model (without using photoshop, neither to manipulate pictures) carried out with the technique of the fingernail and ink, created by me. Also a work in that there are two illustrations, one drawn and colored with photoshop and another manipulated photographically. I wait their comments A hug and until soon Vidal.
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Post by Ricky on Jul 27, 2005 18:14:22 GMT -5
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Post by vidal1951 on Jul 27, 2005 22:58:45 GMT -5
Thank you Ricky for your support. You commit me even more. If you put my name in the searcher of Google, you will find some portals where there are drawings, nudes and illustrations that I have carried out with live models. I would like you to put your picture to make your cartoon. A hug and until soon,
Vidal
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Post by dedder on Jul 28, 2005 0:39:01 GMT -5
You have really proven yor skills allready.No need to defend your self.There will always be believers and non-believers to this type of work.You are a good artist. period. I know what i SAY? BECAUSE I hear all the time people say " oh, it's done by the computer? (sigh)" Like saying ,this is nothing, That way I can do it too. Only...they don't because they can't. Congratulations on your work, and keep following the pad you find before you.
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Post by vidal1951 on Jul 28, 2005 16:37:04 GMT -5
Thank you colleague and friend, you are a real teacher. The problem with the professionals is that they don't trust that they make and they don't believe in themselves. Do they always be asking who the most important person in the world is?... A hug and until soon,
Vidal
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Post by horate on Jul 28, 2005 17:16:27 GMT -5
Vidal your tutorial is very interesting, you have developed an interesting way to learn fotocaricature with Photoshop, you are a master.Anyway i hate your fotocaricatures...sorry !! horate
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