Thursday 12 September 2013

Bossed in Translation

I haven't done a proper oil painting in quite a while, so recently I decided to dust off one of my half-started canvases, and paint a picture of Bill Murray from Lost in Translation.

I have a couple of posts where I break down the process for making a picture, so I thought this time I'd focus on the endgame, and give a basic overview of some of the cheating you can do with digital.

The best way to see the changes is probably to click on the first image below and then use the thumbnails to move to the next ones.

Hopefully it might help your paintings to not get... 

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Moving along.


When cropping it's best to go into Free Transform, then hold cntrl or command and click a corner to stretch the canvas into shape.


All I used for colour editing was Levels.


This was a process of checking the photo very carefully and pushing the face into place.


There are three tiers of the picture now with a lot of Gaussian Blur on the background and a little on the seats in the foreground.


The tiers are also useful for putting a bit of colour around the edges behind the foreground.


I started painting the shirt.


Now the hands get some paint.


The colour change between these two is due to exporting as a regular jpg, rather than a web jpg.  
I hate that it makes such a difference.


Hard to tell what's going on here.  Probably the owl.


The hair gets done here, and the ears.


More head stuff.


And we're done.  The smoother quality of the last image is just due to being higher resolution.



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