CgTalk Daily Sketch 265: THE FUNDAMENTALS 005: Portraiture:Portrait-Picture

[bealobo]

wow!
great topic!
Maybe making portraits of people around can be a way to calm down the great yet freaking avatar wars.

I hope someone´s posting images soon or I´ll have to go on Harry Callaghan (Clint Eastwood).

[LightFreeze]

You guys are a friendly bunch so I thought I`d ask these here, ignore if you wish

1.white is white because it reflects all colours, what does it not reflect that crome does?

2.I`m interested to know if the good artists are the ones who can close their eyes and see an image in their heads and if the others are like me and are unable to do this consciously even though my dreams are quite vivid

thanks for any replies

[augustus]

LightFreeze->Simply, white surfaces reflect incoming parallel rays to many directions, because these are rough surfaces. This is called diffuse reflection. Crome is a smooth surface and incoming parallel rays remain pretty much paralel after reflection. And this is called specular reflection.

[yonna]

This will be an interesting topic! This is me with my lil sis...

http://img32.exs.cx/img32/4053/spiegel23sa.jpg

[deaderthanred]

..*hopes for a photo of the goddess Enayla* :D *hides*

[bealobo]

yeah, white is reflecting wavelentghs not objects.
To the second, I´m not a great artist but I think that great artists don´t stop working. And finally, if you don´t naturally have this talent about imaging everything... you will develop it by painting constantly. It´s like once you´ve painted 1000 hands, you can imagine how´s a hand in any pose. Don´t be stressed about getting good results and draw, and paint, and look, etc.
:)

[theabyss]

"In order for this to work we need photos (of links to them). So please post photos of either yourself, a family member, or maybe a pet or a celebrity, so the artists have material to work with.."


Ok i chose the celebrity:
For me one of the most beautyful woman
on planet earth.
Link:

http://people.freenet.de/the_unreal_abyss/Ali_Larter.jpg

I think i have not enough talent to draw her.
But some of you guys are very talented.
So go for it :o)

Greetz

-=TheAbyss=-

[crazy3dman]

OK, well, I'm posting a picture of myself. Just found this picture on my hard drive. I think I'd been up working for 3 days straight when this was taken. Hence the bloodshot eyes. I'd love to see what some of you might do with it.

http://www.crazy3dman.com/daily_sketch/ForPortrait.jpg

I hope everyone posts pictures of themselves, This should be fun.
jånnis looks like you're going to be my first victim. :)

[deaderthanred]

I dont draw guys very well, but jånnis, i hope i did your cute face justice :D
photoshop, approx 1 hour
[/url][url="http://www.imageshack.us"]http://img165.exs.cx/img165/5237/jannisupdated3zo.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

edit: updated some minor stuff in the pic, 3 mins extra

[Alex Worthy]

It's a little out of date.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/z111111z/cgtalk/alexcompy.jpg


and even more out of date: (my grandpa)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/z111111z/cgtalk/gpaw.jpg

and another one that's out of date, maybe a little more than the first.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/z111111z/cgtalk/gpawgregjohn.jpg

Now y'all got some options.

[coCoKNIght]

http://www.fabianhernandez.ch/images/cgtalk/constanze.jpg

that's constanze, my girlfirend. I'm unable to draw her 'cause I'm never happy with the paintings... maybe one of you can do a better job...


...jotta get my tablet back! we needs it!!

[DesireeJReynolds]

two pictures of me.... both of which I had to take myself.... kinda hard...even WITH a
tri-pod!

http://www.desireejreynolds.com/headshotmeWEB.jpg
http://www.desireejreynolds.com/forumme.jpg

[annisahmad]

DesireeJReynolds (http://member.php?u=145482)> u have really really beautiful eyes.

[crazy3dman]

Alright! Some great pictures.
Alex - I love that third picture especially. That's a classic.

[beebie]

:) This is one of my fav actresses . Zhang Ziyi in "Hero"

http://zhangziyi.free.fr/Photos/Hero/moon2.jpg

[bealobo]

ok!

I wanted to post a really superb picture, but I have no time right now so I thought that this one might be challenging to someone, like painting an underwater portrait
I was holding the camera while swimming, so that´s why the neck looks like that :D
by the way, it´s the sea

http://photobucket.com/albums/y11/bealobo/Scan2.jpg


I´ll draw you tomorrow I´m afraid

Deaderthanred: well done! I love the loose style and big strokes. Also it looks like jannis.

[CodeNothing]

http://img150.exs.cx/img150/7121/me7zt.jpg



coooool, we get to do portraits! :)
This is me before my beard. Mabie ill post me and my beard later. but ill leave the hat and eye patch at home. :scream:

[yonna]

deaderthanred: Nice one (although i look a bit older on yours but thats ok). Thx! :)

I bet everyone like to see a Bergkvist picture. This evening i will pick someone and start sketching (deaderthanred do you have no pic of yourself?)

[DesireeJReynolds]

Thank you :) Blush...

I really love that swim picture bobolo!! You look so happy under the water! not like you are trying to hold your breath.

[HellBoy]

ok, this is CodeNothing, I've painted streight


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/portrait.jpg

Photoshop, 30Min

soon I'll do the hand drawn version

[AtmaWeapon]

Hey again guys. Long time no see. Wow its cool to see everyone's real faces. Here's one of me!

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~beiy/images/bei.jpg

[deaderthanred]

bealobo: thanks, and your underwater pic rocks :bounce: i might try drawing you when i have more time tomorrow!

deaderthanred: Nice one (although i look a bit older on yours but thats ok). Thx! :)

I bet everyone like to see a Bergkvist picture. This evening i will pick someone and start sketching (deaderthanred do you have no pic of yourself?)

You're possibly only my 2nd attempt at drawing a guy realistically (the first was my bf, and it was a disaster lol) your pic is the only one I'll be working on today since I'm really rushed for time. I'll update it in painter (better shading than in photoshop) when I am done with today's workload.

I'm really really really shy about posting pics of myself, so i'm just going to quickly post this pic I took a few mins ago with my shitty webcam, and run before I chicken out! :scream:
http://img105.exs.cx/img105/5690/deaderthanred9vc.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[White Rabbit]

Ho, I can't believe I don't have my wacom with me this weekend :cry: I would have so wanted to participate!

It's great to put faces on the (nick)names - Crazy3Dman, Jannis, Bealobo, Deaderthanred, Codenothing, Atmaweapon... So many cute faces among us, too! :D DesireeReynolds, no way those eyes are real, they're obviously photoshop-made :eek: Same with Bealobo and DeaderThanRed's smiles :)

Anyway... Here's one of me, dearly hoping someone will make something of it ... The hat's full part of my anatomy, as I always have it on while working :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/151085/Jack.jpg

If you're all verrrrry nice (and I get his permission, of course) I might just have one of Drumwhore to treat you with... :p

[AtmaWeapon]

Alrighty Crazy3d here's you!!! I hope I didn't defile your face too much :scream:
Anywhoo... 45 minutes Photoshop and Wacom. I didn't paint over the picture, so things are diffinitel a bit off but 'eh!

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~beiy/cgtalk/portrait.jpg
deaderthanred: don't be shy, show that pretty face
CodeNothing: You gotta have the beard man! Every picture you paint of yourself has a beard

[NathanielWest]

Hey everyone! This is really great getting back to the basics, and I think you have all been doing really great work this week. I decided to do a little process to show how I basically lay things in and take something to a finished level. Anyhow, this took about 1 hour or so with photoshop. It's not a perfect likeness, but then again this is mostly about shadows, highlights, etc. Anyways, here it is!

http://nathanielwest.net/images/zhang1.jpg

http://nathanielwest.net/images/zhang2.jpg

http://nathanielwest.net/images/zhang3.jpg

http://nathanielwest.net/images/zhang4.jpg

Oh yeah, the image is from beebie, and here's the link http://zhangziyi.free.fr/Photos/Hero/moon2.jpg

[coCoKNIght]

http://www.fabianhernandez.ch/images/cgtalk/headshotmeWEB2.jpg

I'm still without tablet but I thought I could at least make some photo manipulation with photoshop...

I love all works so far, really great! :thumbsup:

[embryotic]

Hi all - so I thought that would post this potrait of my bestest bud - I thought that it was a nice picture - perhaps someone would like to draw it..... I also thought she may like it as art and design are probably her greatest passion.


http://img168.exs.cx/img168/9756/myfriend7ai.jpg
HIGH RES: http://img15.exs.cx/img15/7545/bandanamirror7tp.jpg (thanx imageshack!)
the pic is from 2002 - so please excuse the kooky bandanna - but it makes her look cute and really completes the whole 'ensemble' hahaha.
B kind 2 her potraits....she's prone to killing me..

[HellBoy]

@ coCoKNIght: very good :) cool work
Nathaniel West: Very cool steps, love the style :thumbsup: keep up
@ AtmaWeapon: I like the tone colour, wish I did that before you ya know :D very cool too

keep up guys

[SoniaNotRed]

Thanks for your "tutorial", Nathaniel.
I really like those colors and lighting a lot, but I do think she looks a bit angry :) No?

[crazy3dman]

Alrighty Crazy3d here's you!!! I hope I didn't defile your face too much :scream:
Anywhoo... 45 minutes Photoshop and Wacom. I didn't paint over the picture, so things are diffinitel a bit off but 'eh!
deaderthanred: don't be shy, show that pretty face
CodeNothing: You gotta have the beard man! Every picture you paint of yourself has a beard

Hey AtmaWeapon - cool! I'm glad you didn't do a paint-over. I'd much rather see how an artist translates a photo on their own without the paint-over help. It makes the finished piece much more interesting.

CodeNothing - I second that, We gotta see the beard. :)

[crazy3dman]

NathanialWest - Very nice. I love the loose painterly approach.

[coCoKNIght]

http://www.fabianhernandez.ch/images/cgtalk/mewhatsup.jpg

hehe, just found a funny old pic of me, though like on CondeNothings pic the beard is missing :)
...and a lot of hair is missing too :scream:

[Aedilhum]

Nice one Nathaniel West.
Hey all, I'm new here, but here is me. Taken right after cutting off my long flowing hair.

http://img229.exs.cx/img229/192/me3cc.jpg

[theabyss]

My Grandpa:
well...sort of...
http://people.freenet.de/the_unreal_abyss/cg/Bleistift_Image27.jpg

[RobertoOrtiz]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/robertoortiz/Winter2004-2005/IMG_4105.jpg
Hey it my birthday so be gentle...

[HellBoy]

happyburthday Roberto...

okay, one more time

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/portrait2.jpg

and the ref I used
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/mwarsame/portrait2ref.jpg

Photoshop, 45m-1h

plus its my first time I did the nose lips and the whole head, I'm proud of myself :bounce:

[coCoKNIght]

Happy birthday Roberto!!
Is that where you work? :)

(I thought you looked more like your avatar...) :D

[SoniaNotRed]

Happy birthday, Roberto!:applause:

digital_embryo - Your friend looks just like one of those girls in Renaissance paintings! I'm not much in the mood for drawing right now, but I think I'll try to portray her later on.

[RobertoOrtiz]

Happy birthday Roberto!!
Is that where you work? :)


Yep!


(I thought you looked more like your avatar...) :D
Funny how often I hear that.
He he

-R

[coCoKNIght]

so how often do you see mister bush? :)

[HellBoy]

is that washington or new york?

[coCoKNIght]

Washington

[theabyss]

Be carefull guys when you try to draw a girl.

The one thing i heard most often was: "My nose
is not THAT big...!?!"

:)
@DesireeReynolds:
Oh my godness....your eyes....phew...man...wow...wohoo...:thumbsup:

@ Nathaniel West
Very nice work...the shading/render....

[crazy3dman]

Roberto- Happy Birthday! :thumbsup:

[El-Rodente]

so how often do you see mister bush? :)

and how good is the line of sight?


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v301/El-Rodente/me.jpg

only pic i have online

i have no camera :(

[HellBoy]

Washington

damn, I always though that building was in New york?...anyway...I'm feel stupid asking that :blush:


Be carefull guys when you try to draw a girl.

The one thing i heard most often was: "My nose
is not THAT big...!?!"


Emmm, yea thats right...well...oh no, I did another mistake again :sad:

[SofaKingLazy]

White Rabbit (http://www.cgtalk.com/member.php?u=137109)!
I went out and bought myself a Wacom Intuos 3 A4 last week on an impulse purchase. I have been looking at these forums for the last week in absolute envy at the skill all you guys/gals have.

Well here is my first attempt. I cheated a little by tracing round the image and blowing it up to play with. Hope you like it White Rabbit

http://www.whatevernameyouwant.com/pics/wrabbits
45 mins, Painter, Wacom Intuos 3 A4

[crazy3dman]

OK, here's my first. This is fun. I'm going to try to do more of these.
You know, I've only been perticipating in the DSG since the beginning of January.
Not that it's perfect, but there is no way I could have done anything like this back then.

It's amazing what a difference drawing everyday makes.

Photoshop - Wacom - about an hour.

http://www.crazy3dman.com/daily_sketch/C3DM_dsg265_1.jpg

http://www.crazy3dman.com/daily_sketch/JannisRef.jpg

[yonna]

Hey! I thought the avatar wars were over! *grins* I laughed my ass off at this one! Ouch, those glasses! Luckily i wear different ones these days. Thanks dude, loved it

[MaTaKo]

Sorry for the bad quality, taken with mobile phone. Picture from fall of 2003.
http://koti.welho.com/slaihone/paavartio.jpg

[Gekido]

Hey, I love portraits! Maybe I'll have time to do this one.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/Cheesypete/Hiking070.jpg

[.:ZRDwD:.]

Ahhh.. time for me to once again jump on the bandwagon. I have a pretty good idea for someone's pic here (something highly unusual for me to do something non-psychotic), and will start that first. Then after I'm done, for the first time... I'll post my ugly mug. Time to blow the dust off the ol' digi camcorder...

[Kirt]

This thread has turned into another "Don't be shy, show a pic of yourself" thread. Who are all these new people anyway? I don't remember seeing many here in Daily Sketch before? :shrug:

Anyhoo ... Roberto you remind me of Jason Alexander for some reason. Not that you look like him, just that pic has a "George Castanza" feel to it. Happy Birthday dude! :D

Less photos more art! I'll be doing some quick sketches later this evening ...
Won't be able to post them up until tomorrow though.

Here's a few pics of me if anyone cares to render my John Malkovich-like charm. :blush:

Picture #1 (http://kirt.cgcommunity.com/images/kirt.jpg) :: Picture #2 (http://kirt.cgcommunity.com/images/lobo-me.jpg) :: Picture #3 (http://kirt.cgcommunity.com/images/on_break.jpg)

[Cyanid]

random ref from the web
http://www.cyber-kat.com/potc/images/jackSparrow3800.jpg


20 mins, pencil on paper
http://bushido.boonzaayer.nl/scanned/002.jpg

[RobertoOrtiz]

Anyhoo ... Roberto you remind me of Jason Alexander for some reason. Not that you look like him, just that pic has a "George Castanza" feel to it. Happy Birthday dude! .

Yep I heard that one too. Tonight I am going out with a dear friend of mine who refers to herself as the Elaine of our partnership.

-R

[Enayla]

Wow, some awesome stuff here already :D

(and happy birthday, Roberto :} )

I've got one of those real killer headaches right now (migraines, you know what I mean) so I'm just going to go back to bed, and do a portrait or two tomorrow when I'm feeling better.

I found a couple of pictures of myself that might be fun to reference from, one in black and white and one in colour from before I got the braids,

http://www.furiae.com/images/portraitpicture/1.jpg
http://www.furiae.com/images/portraitpicture/2.jpg

This one isn't a very good photo :/ but it shows the colours of the braids, at least, so I'm posting it anyway.

http://www.furiae.com/images/portraitpicture/3.jpg

I'll be back again later, when head doesn't hurt so much <3

[DoInferno]

Happy birthday Roberto! And thanks for taking care of us here, at the DSG!

[fcint]

OK here's me...

Happy Birthday roberto!

http://perso.wanadoo.es/carlosfelipeleon/labuena/Perfil.JPG

[NathanielWest]

I have to agree with Kirt on this one. I came back to see what's happening and I've only seen a handful of sketches. At least I know what you all look like now. But seriously, let's see some drawings!

[DesireeJReynolds]

No such thing as "not a very good photo" when it comes to pics of Enayla!

But I must say I was, at first, a bit shocked at that last one! That tank top blends with your skin so much, I wasnt sure you had any top on at all! eeek---!

Oh...thank you to you who did that photo manip of my picture (*yay someone picked me!*)

[Alex Worthy]

Ok, you get three guesses who this is, an then after that I'll start givin hints hah!
edit: 30 minutes, painter, and then I changed one of the colors in photoshop.

edit #2 : Ok, I went back to it an changed the image, cause I can. The first one is here, http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/z111111z/cgtalk/dtrportrait.jpg if you're really curious or something.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/z111111z/cgtalk/dtrportrait2.jpg

[mybutterflyiris]

I sooo want to do this...but I don't have time to post today :sad: *sniff... I'm going out of town for the weekend so I'll try and post when I get back.... There are some really nice photos on here, so how 'bout posting some art ?!!:)

Kirt: I agree there are a lot of new people floating around.... although I am relatively new (been around for 3 + weeks now... but anyways, the more the merrier I say.

Edit:
Enayla: It looks like you have a mole or a freckle on your rt. cheek in the second photo and yet it's not on the other two.... so ...what is that?

[theabyss]

Kirt wrote:
"This thread has turned into another "Don't be shy, show a pic of yourself" thread. Who are all these new people anyway? I don't remember seeing many here in Daily Sketch before?"

@Kirt
Uhmm...thats me...in the group pic...
http://people.freenet.de/the_unreal_abyss/theabyssgroup.jpg

but i didnt have an avatar at that time...now i have one :)

I think it´s funny to see some of those you normally never see.
But youre right -> we should do some sketches now!

Greetz

-=TheAbyss=-

[bkboggy]

Wow, DesireeJReynold, you have very beautiful eyes.


Sounds like a fun topic, I might do something for this... not sure, I got to do a T-Shirt drawing for my ATC military school here in Pensacola Florida.

[DoInferno]

Happy Birthiday, matte!

http://www.carlosranna.com.br/cgtalk/265-THE-FUNDAMENTALS-005.jpg

I got to say i started painting over the lines of Roberto Pic, to get his shape, and them when i had the basic shapes, got rid of them and started working on colors just by observation. I think maybe it woulden´t be honest if i did not tell this...

Anyway, it is a painting, and i would like to hear what you guys thing of it. It´s very diferent from the stuff i usually do...

[HellBoy]

This one isn't a very good photo :/ but it shows the colours of the braids, at least, so I'm posting it anyway.

http://www.furiae.com/images/portraitpicture/3.jpg

I'll be back again later, when head doesn't hurt so much <3

you just excactly look like a friend of mine... in my art college...wow

[DoInferno]

So Enayla... You´re not only a great artist, but a really beautifull woman too. I´m amazed...
:buttrock::thumbsup:

[DoInferno]

And i just realized i ain´t got much digital pics of myself to choose from... Damn!

This me with the long hair and my friend Terasman in a boat!

http://www.carlosranna.com.br/cgtalk/cumuru11.jpg

Long live bahia!!!:applause::buttrock:

[CodeNothing]

By demand, the beard. :D

http://img76.exs.cx/img76/1993/adams3002hx.jpg

Just took it. i have been driving all over newport beach looking for my new workplace. Finaly found it, and i think im gona like it alot! I got all dressed up for the pic when i saw pics of Desiree, Enayla , and Deaderthanred... :love:

EDIT* for some reason the hair under my bottom lip comes out platinum blonde. my beard grows out Red, but the hair on my head is brown. my hair is confused. :shrug:

[SoniaNotRed]

CodeNothing - Looking classy, man.http://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon6.gif I think you'll make an impression!:thumbsup:

[yonna]

Painting portraits is difficult! =( I'm sorry if i messed up.

http://img208.exs.cx/img208/9056/portrait3ck.jpg

ps/wacom/4hr.

[Drumwhore]

If you're all verrrrry nice (and I get his permission, of course) I might just have one of Drumwhore to treat you with... :p

Well, I sincerly hope you're not talking about the pic of me drinking this damn hot gluhwein..? :)

Anyway, here's your mug, 1h15 photoshop cs:

http://users.skynet.be/am272566/jack.jpg

And happy birthday Roberto! :D
Btw, Nathaniel West, i love your loose rendering!

Edit: i apologize for the tasteless orange background.. Couldn't have been worse.. :)
Edit 2: i finally changed the bg.. :)

[Mysterious X]

alrite...here I am...I don't have a tablet to draw..probably anyone is interested in drawing my "Iron Man" picture :D

[element5]

http://apache.airnet.com.au/~element5/devil.jpg

Wow lots of pics of people and some goood portraits....well this is me and my Housemate at halloween now I have a goatie and had the horns removed...hehe

[Kvaalen]

Some really nice sketchs so far!

I was going to try a new style but it didn't come out as nice as I wished. Any tips would be extremly welcome! It's my sis back when she was 21.

http://www.kvaalen.com/misc/Cheb.jpg
I really need to change my wacom tablet. It's the least accurate, smallest, not pressure or anything sensative, oldest, wacom you can ever find. What I'm really missing with it is the freedom I have with traditional art. What wacom would you guys advise me that will resemble traditional tools (pencil, pen, what ever)?

[Zebula]

digital_embryo - great photo - perfect for drawing a portrait from. Here it is - I hope it doesn't reduce your life expectancy too much:)

Around 4 hours - PS, Wacom.
http://img84.exs.cx/img84/2135/portrait8sh.jpg

[-zzz-]

Hey again guys. Long time no see. Wow its cool to see everyone's real faces. Here's one of me!

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/%7Ebeiy/images/bei.jpgI did you because your avi is awsome ^^

http://img171.exs.cx/img171/4051/dailyscetch26cgcopy3zf.jpg
EDIT: Oh yea, time :D

PS 6.1 ~10 mins

[ms@zx]

wah,d~*m,here i missed this thread again..must have been too bz with my work..sigh,,wish i have time to do mine:)probably i'll do it tonite
good work everyone,happy birthday roberto,enayla,that was some nice picture of urs,anticipating to see ur work here.
great work drumwhore and zebula.
so happy to see many of ur faces here guys and gals of cgtalk:)

[SheepFactory]

http://ali.cgcommunity.com/Sketch/girl.jpg


My attempt at drawing cocoknights gf.

around 45 minute - painter\ps

[deaderthanred]

this pic, from scratch to finish, is not a paintover (see page 1 for the prelim quicky if you're curious). i wanted to see how far i can paint someone, and this is a personal achievement for me, no matter how small, cos he actually looks like a guy lol
jånnis, thanks for being so fun to paint :D Painter, half hour (continued from first pic which took about an hour). i love painter.
http://img216.exs.cx/img216/9574/jannisfinal6ph.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

Roberto: HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :)
Zebula: amazing work! simply gorgeous
CodeNothing: rarely have i ever seen a guy looking so good in a red :love:
Enayla: *swooons*
I've had a long day of maya work, but I probably might scribble another portrait before I finally tire myself out enough to sleep lol

[ms@zx]

welldone deaderthanred,its solid yet i can feel the looseness of it:)love the way u did the highlight on the specs

[fcint]

OK, here's Roberto and deaderthanred. I'll do some more...

http://perso.wanadoo.es/carlosfelipeleon/labuena/Portrait1.jpg

[SteveV]

Show and tell, eh? Well here's me and the better half from about five years ago.
http://www.acay.com.au/~waylie/cherylandsteve.jpg
And now.
http://www.acay.com.au/~waylie/me.jpg

Oh yeah, happy birthday Roberto... or should I say George Costanza?;)

[fcint]

By the way, great sketches everyone

Nathaniel west: That's awesome!

[embryotic]

Wow Zebula - thats awesome - great with the colours and all - I can confidently say that I am no deader because of that than I already was after I posted her picture without permission :D

Here is one - I forgot to time 1.5 hr?
http://img175.exs.cx/img175/3596/deaderthanred1za.jpg
Traced thru a layer tho - so im trying to propotionalize my own take on this at the moment..thanx Deaderthanred for the pic! (you look like a non demonised version of your avatar!)
ZEBULA - again...good stuff

[CodeNothing]

The realy realy CRAZY 3D man....

http://img204.exs.cx/img204/8636/portrait0010zu.jpg


and deadly ninja girl, Deaderthanred....

http://img211.exs.cx/img211/3105/portrait0023hj.jpg


i duno how long these took. ill guess at 1.5 hours. I made pencil sketches and photoshop. And i did a few others pencil sketches so ill post a few more up later tonight. :thumbsup:

and happy B-Day Roberto!

[Octothreat]

I got all dressed up for the pic when i saw pics of Desiree, Enayla , and Deaderthanred...
Hehehe... and here is my after a few hours of sweaty basketball!!:D
http://img135.exs.cx/img135/5751/im000526sm6hb.jpg
So many awesome faces (drawn and au natural)!!

[DesireeJReynolds]

Maybe went a little sparkle crazy with this... drew with pencil, scanned into photoshop then finished with the WACOM. About three hours.

http://www.desireejreynolds.com/linda3.jpg

Code NoTHING--- I love the beard picture! YOU have very nice eyes!

[DoInferno]

Ok, in Roerto´s pic i spent 20 min... In this one i spent 2 hours!

The explanation maybe won´t be found in the pic itself... The explanation is that she is a lot (infinite) more hotter than Roberto!

And also the fact that i´m drunk enough to drawn my girlfriend and post a reference pic of her here at CGTalk.

All those man chasing every girl that appear on this page makes me so nervous that i´m needing another "Avatar Fight Club" Thread already!

Anyway, enough talking, this is the portrait i made for the woman i love, my girl, Alice (Wich is a belly dancer, for those who might imagine what kind of clothes are those.).

:buttrock:

http://www.carlosranna.com.br/cgtalk/265-THE-FUNDAMENTALS-005_ga.jpg

Ref pic:

http://www.carlosranna.com.br/cgtalk/265-THE-FUND-005_ga01.jpg

[element5]

Hiya all,

Here is my effort of the beautiful Desiree and the evil looking Crazy3dman :D

Also nice to c u SteveV ...how ya been?

http://apache.airnet.com.au/~element5/portrait.jpg
http://apache.airnet.com.au/~element5/portrait2.jpg

[Ilikesoup]

A very quick line drawing


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ilikesoup2/BertoDay.jpg

Happy birthday, Roberto!

DoInferno -- Very nice picture. I'm sure Alice will love it.

CodeNothing - Those are really impressive. (Yes, your eyes are nice, but I meant your drawings :))

[DesireeJReynolds]

ELEMENT 5-- whee! Very cool ! I love the slight change in expression I got from the picture to the painting :)

[SteveV]

I'm good element5, what part of Australia are you from?

[DoInferno]

Thanks a lot ILikeSoup. I´m terrible happy you liked it, and i hope she likes it too!

[Zebula]

Heh, digital_embryo - glad to hear it :) Thanks for the positive comments everyone!

[DoInferno]

Wow, just realized we got a birthday boy and something like it too! ILikeSoup is almost on his post #1000! Hehe... Congrats you both!

[robinayles]

SteveV - PS/Wacom 1 hour
http://www.k-squared.com/steve.jpg

Couldn't find a recent one of me that isn't kind of scary, so this is my high school senior pic...I refuse to mention what year! :)

http://www.k-squared.com/sm_rla_srpic.jpg

Happy Birthday, Roberto!

There are some excellent sketches here folks, congrats!

[element5]

@DesireeJReynolds Your portrait was fun to do thanx for posting it :love:

@SteveV I am in South Australia wayway at the bottom of the world...hehe if it wasnt for the internet I would go mad...lol

Here is another portrait ...one of Enayla


http://apache.airnet.com.au/~element5/portrait3a.jpg

[deaderthanred]

robinayles: nice sketch :) I can instantly recognize the face
element5: excellent stuff!
Octothreat: that photo is a work of art on its own! intense!!
CodeNothing: how did you know i have butt-length hair :surprised and that sketch is waaaaay cool -made my day! thank you!!
digital_embryo: thank you :) I love the subtle shades!
ms@zx: thanks :) you should post more too.. your work is far better than mine
fcint: great starting sketches!

dedicated to a certain ocean goddess named Beatriz ;)
:
http://img110.exs.cx/img110/7852/beatriz1xf.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
Painter, approx 2 hours while I feed my tummy and daydream :D painted based on impression.

okies i'm off to bed.. the eyeballs demand it *thud*

[.:ZRDwD:.]

I went a lil' bit overboard (pun not intended).

BEALOBO

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/ZRDwD/beamaid640480.jpg

Here's the "steps" pic:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/ZRDwD/stepsbea.jpg

4.25 Hrs.
Photoshop
Intuos II

And this is what I got from Bea's lil' underwater adventure. :D Hope you likey.

**I just now noticed that her tail is a bit more blurred and no green tint than what I had seen when saving it. Don't even look like a tail now. :sad: **

[embryotic]

Ok heres my second potrait - drawn untraced - I took the proportions and style though from a wicked artist here in NZ: PETER STITCHBURY - Sorry Red its all kinda strange and dischievelled - but is that the point?.... 2 hrs PsCs
http://img170.exs.cx/img170/8408/deaderthanredproportionalize8h.jpg
I couldn't commend all the artists that did real well this thread....very impressive everyone

[Taron333]

...that's all, I can't deal with this topic at all, but wouldn't wonna miss the congrats! :D

[embryotic]

Happy birthday Roberto - I think you do a great job here - Thanks a lot!

[White Rabbit]

This is a jaw-dropping thread if ever I saw one :D And I actually got picked twice !
SofakingLazy - thanks to you, buddy !
Drumwhore - Geez, man, you didn't do too bad... :applause: Clap clap matey, that just rocks :)
Yeay !
I think I'll just have to post something anyway, even if it'll be way too late, when I get back to my wacom...

Thanks again! :)

Happy Birthday Roberto :thumbsup:

[leitchy]

Loving your one deaderthanred, fav yet in this thread.

Here's my attempt

http://www.leitch-designs.co.uk/cgtalk/enaylathumb.jpg
http://www.leitch-designs.co.uk/cgtalk/enayla.jpg < Full Image There

First time drawing on the computer, and using a mouse...my hand is bloomin sore!!!

[klau]

painter ~ 2 hours.

Made the mistake of not knowing when to stop and adding in too much detail... live and learn :)

cheers.

http://www.homestead.com/qmisfits/files/images/crazy3dman.jpg

[CodeNothing]

Whew, ended up going to see "Constantine" with a friend. It was prity good, as long as they didnt rely on keanu's acting too much... i think there was just some weak script. but all and all worth seeing.
and i got home super late, but couldent go to bed untill i finished Robertos pic.

ALL HAIL THE EMPEROR OF DSG!
http://img151.exs.cx/img151/1914/portrait0033zi.jpg
WILL HE USE HIS POWERS FOR GOOD OR EVIL? ONLY TIME WILL TELL....

Element5- Nice work! they look like mosaics, or a mosaic, and freud paintings. I duno. but there cool!
Deaderthanred- Lucky guess with the hair :) . or mabie wishfull thinking? I tend to like long hair. :D

[Art2]

Very good portraits guys!
Deaderthanred, your last one is very good, like it a lot.
Element5, good work mate, especially your first.
Zebula, awesome!

No time to do one now, I think tonight. This one I can not skip.
Maybe I can combine this topic with 'not only is she naked...',
since I missed that one too :)

Happy birthday Roberto!!

[augustus]

Hapy birthday Roberto, if it is still your birthday there:)

[Maidith]

Photoshop 7, one hour.
http://img210.exs.cx/img210/7999/etnoninducasnosbymaidith8bu.jpg

I referred to this photo of Kayleigh on Deviantart - I just made slight changes :)
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/12342119/

[elmasfeo]

ouch! I can't be missing this one! I suck at doing portraits, but that's exactly why I want to try to do one later...
you guys are amazing! it's great to see what you can do...
desiree, where were you looking at to have such small pupils? staring at the sun?
...there are some pretty faces (and eyes) around here :D
I agree with kirt that this thread looks more like a "share your photos" one, but...well, I didn't wanted to be left outside, hehehe, so you can find a picture of me here (http://www.telefonica.net/web2/chapuceros/_DSC0016.jpg), I'm curious to see if anyone can do something with it...

[leitchy]

i hope the picture isnt anything nude :rolleyes:

Only joking, i might attack ure picture later on, all that clear sky begs for something to be put in it!

[ms@zx]

i'm late~~gotta love this thread..good stuff from most of u guys here:)cant just sit there and watch.so here's mine,made the sketch using the image below as reference,it's my girlfriend in the pic,took that photo in Taiwan
http://www.hugeimage.com/userfiles/michaelsee/img01.jpg
however,i decided to come up with my own background and colors and change her wardrob as well since i'm going into a different mood.had this piece painted for 2 and a half hours.hope u guys like it:)
http://www.hugeimage.com/userfiles/michaelsee/portrait_portraiture4.jpg

[drawMonger]

Happy Birthday Roberto!
http://digitalcraft.com.au/misc/sg265-portrait-roberto.jpg
pencil on paper / ps / 45min

I've been waiting for the fundamentals topics since SG started and am not at all disapointed! Hope to see more after this week is over :scream:

Fantastic work all!

[InAction]

Damn, I'm at a LAN (Local Area Network) with alot of people. It's not like I'm able to draw/paint anything here. :argh:

[ProtoZone]

Guess who. Arrrgh

(opencanvas) (80 min)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v680/sin01/pirate.jpg

[deaderthanred]

digital_embryo: she has prettier eyes than i do ;) you got a nice style going in it
leitchy: thanks :) I used to draw with a mouse one-half years ago, and for a mouse drawing, that's quite amazing
mr.damage: very nice work!
CodeNothing: my, doesnt Roberto just look so grand :D
Art2: thanks, and i'm starting to miss seeing your sketch entries too
Maidith: gorgeous work! very vibrant
ms@zx: your painting is like one of those batik masterpieces :)
I wont have time to post til very late today, if at all :(

[drawMonger]

deaderthanred! back on the computer this time.
http://digitalcraft.com.au/misc/sg265-portrait-deaderthanre.gif
painter / 1hr30min

and a variation
http://digitalcraft.com.au/misc/sg265-portrait-deaderthan2.jpg

[gizmodus]

Hello :)

After lurking here for quite some time I wanted to join this cool place, too. :)
Here's my portrait sketch [Photoshop / ~1 hour]:

http://gizmodus.com/files/art/cgsketch265.jpg

[MaTaKo]

My first portrait try. Not 1:1, but i think im going to right direction. Also proportions got little stretched vertically. Sorry for that Desiree.

http://koti.welho.com/slaihone/PortraitTryOut.jpg
little over 2h / Photoshop

ref http://www.desireejreynolds.com/forumme.jpg

[Amida]

I would like to do this one, but my scanner broke down...

Anyways I attached a pic, maybe someone is still up for it :P
Gj everyone btw :)

[DesireeJReynolds]

Yes, I was outside when I took that shot, and I was looking up into the sky...not necessarially into the sun, but it was one of those bright and cloudy days.

Ma Tako - The propotions are fine! Thank you for painting me :) The only thing that isnt really like "Me", is the lips...but I had a hard time with that when I painted linda.... I really like the lighting on the face and neck :) Everyone is doing such an awesome job with this!

[elmasfeo]

I've chosen kirt because he looked easier to draw... well, I'm not very happy with it but here it goes...
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/chapuceros/sketches/kirt.jpg

btw, happy birthday Roberto! (even if it's probably one day late):applause:

[Octothreat]

What can I say? Codenothing has quite a beard...

http://img194.exs.cx/img194/1458/codenothing6rc.jpg
30 min painter

[coCoKNIght]

http://www.fabianhernandez.ch/images/cgtalk/kirt.jpg

ok, I got my tablet back and here is Kirt :scream::D
Great work so far everyone!

EDIT: Oh, yeah, forgot: about 20 minutes in ps cs

[Nekoi-chan]

Everyone is making amazing portrais. :applause: :thumbsup:
Maybe i should take a try in a daily sketch soon, I guess is too late for this one.

[Vitriolic]

http://img133.exs.cx/img133/4981/sketchportraitref2xm.jpg

gizmodus - snap! :) 1:30, photoshop + wacom. I totally cheated and sampled colours off the ref pic though :blush:

[coCoKNIght]

the ref pic has some hundred thousands of colors... that's not cheating, it's a very nice painting instead! :) (pssst: I think she looked better without those braids :D :twisted: )
EDIT: Compared to the photo she looks more relaxed and happier on your pic I think. :)

[paintbox]

http://members.lycos.co.uk/paintbx/portrait_v08.jpg

Wow, Vitriolic, excellent picture !

Here's mine...this is the first time that I enter, and the first time I do a complete painting all digital with my new Wacom. I used the ref picture of http://www.desireejreynolds.com/forumme.jpg at the first page. I really liked the classical pose and the soft window light. I really tried capturing that mood, and I am reasonably satisfied with that. The proportions arent right (yet) so it isn't a good likeness yet IMO. Comments always appreciated ofcourse :)

Time : Havent got a clue, always forget the time... must be bout 2 hours I think...
Wacom and PShop CS

[CodeNothing]

I totally cheated and sampled colours off the ref pic though :blush:

na, thats not cheating. thats time management! :)

I steal color all the time. If i didnt my 2 hour sketches would be 7 hour sketches. although sometimes its fun to steal color from one pic and put it on a different sketch.

[Enayla]

Whee, thanks to those who painted me :love: awesome stuff.

I've been asleep all day and then went to see a couple of movies with some friends. So I only had time for a quick one (will try to do a couple more later)

http://www.furiae.com/images/portraitpicture/desiree.jpg

('tis Desiree... sorry if it's not anywhere close. I wanted to make something really sweet and innocent because all my work lately has been, well, sort of bloody :blush: )

Photoshop, about forty minutes I think.

[element5]

@Enayla I love the mood of your image...very nice :thumbsup:

[MasterManBabyJ]

Photoshop 2 hours

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/Sheroh/ME/Me.gif

[robinayles]

Vitriolic & Enayla - WOW! Amazing work!

[CodeNothing]

HAHA protozone thats comedy... :)

enayla, nice one!

[ms@zx]

great piece enayla.very nice indeed:)

[Sagii]

Hello.. well I am goin to cheat and use a selfpotrait I a daily sketch way back called selfpotrait.... :) it is not really cheating since i made if for the daily sketch.. i like to call it recycling. :)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y36/inesdonovan/pic.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y36/inesdonovan/selfpotrait.jpg

i will try to draw u guys later.




Happy b Roberto again.
:TRIPOD DOES NOT LET ME UPLOAD PICS.. GRR... anyone know a site I can use for a server>

[deaderthanred]

drawMonger: nah my nose is bigger than that ;) :D nice sketch tho, thanks :)
Vitriolic and Enayla: awesome sketches *worship*
sagi_13: i'm using imageshack.us

[Kelli]

First off, Desiree, thank you for posting your portrait... absolutely beautiful and easy-ish lines for this beginner to work with. :-)

I grayscaled the portrait, and drew a grid in PhotoShop. Printed it out, and sketched it within a grid I drew in my sketch book (Thank you Robin for teaching me that!) Then, I scenned my sketch into PhotoShop, deleted the grid, then colorized. I'm rather proud of myself on this attempt. All in all it took me about an hour and a half to do the sketch, and about an hour in PhotoShop. I'm going to post all of my steps, so I can maybe get some feedback from you masters out there! :-)

Sketch -
http://www.k-squared.com/kelli/Sketches/desireesketch.jpg

Sketch with no lines -
http://www.k-squared.com/kelli/Sketches/desireenolines.jpg

Finished color version -

http://www.k-squared.com/kelli/Sketches/desireecolor.jpg

Thanks!
Kelli

[Vitriolic]

http://img228.exs.cx/img228/8829/sketchportrait027el.jpg

2 hrs, photoshop + wacom. digital_embryo - Thanks for posting the image up mate. :) However, if she decides to kill you I disavow all knowledge of this sketch! :twisted:

EDIT: PS, Awesome work everyone!

[DesireeJReynolds]

Enayla- WOW thank you! That is so beautiful!

Kelli - glad my face is an easy one! :)

Paint box- I like that! hehe.... thats not window light though! I took that at night with available light from a desk lamp! hehe creative photography :)

[SteveV]

Hey Robin, there's no doubt who owns that mug!

[embryotic]

Hey Vitriolic - Good one as per and iaw...I especially like the hair; looks great - and parts of it has a 'crayon on textured paper effect' which eludes me...
Evidently im still alive - so here I will push my luck:
http://img124.exs.cx/img124/2403/characterpaint024om.jpg
Str8 paintover - no stress involved just pure proportional cheating pleasure!...1.5 hr PsCs - you can see where i extended the canvas tho.

[FridayEve]

http://www.fridayeve.com/gallery/cgtalk/cg265_fridayeve.jpg
2 hours/ painter

[CodeNothing]

Friday! Nice one! where ya been!!?? :)

[JVaughan]

Wow, cool stuff all the way around, spent more time than ever on this one,

http://www.jvaughan.org/images/PicturePortrait.jpg

Big thanks to Crazyman3d for looking, well, crazy. Also thanks to Enayla for turning this thread into a cache for her portaits, that woman is so attractive its stupid. But I digress, hope you all enjoy this,

-j

[Aedilhum]

There are some pretty sweet portraits being done here. Esp. from...FridayEve, JVaughan, 2 great ones from Vitriolic, and Enayla to name a few...

Here's one from me, about 20 or 30min on paper. It's a little off, but hey, it's a sketch right? I wish I had time to do one digitally but on the weekends all my little brothers take over and play games ;), just had time now to scan it in and post it.

http://img27.exs.cx/img27/5435/ds265codesm7bw.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us/)

[Vitriolic]

yay Friday's back! :beer:

[ysvry]

desire beautifull eyes in nr one ;)

[ysvry]

done in 10 min painter clasic that came with the wacom folita or something ,only the german version worked that sucked as did the resolution of the pen i have an other wacom but that isnt usb and my new comp only has usb. in short computers suck.

[ysvry]

well add my foto too just to show how i look :)

[haysuess]

Hopefully somebody will come back and look at/critique this work? Heheh, this is my second SOTD picture. I know it's not even close to winning but I think it's pretty good for me :-/ I can never seem to get the person looking like the original picture. There is a lot wrong with this pic but I am leaving it as is for now.

http://www.ch0p.com/haysuess/sketch02ref.jpg
http://www.ch0p.com/haysuess/sketch02cropped.jpg

[bealobo]

wow!

those are great sketches!
as I wasn´t at home for drawing, I´m going to draw some today because I love portraits.

DeaderThanRed: well done! I like it!
Funeral Laugh: really nice and colorful sketch and the idea of the mermaid it´s great. It´s good to see your work! so keep posting

I´m so happy to see these portraits :)

[klau]

Wasn't happy with my last effort, so another :)

Reference - http://zhangziyi.free.fr/Photos/Hero/Hero2.jpg

Painter ~1h45m
(I paint at the final size so sorry if a tad small...)

cheers.

http://www.homestead.com/qmisfits/files/images/hero.jpg

[woox]

A little bit late like always:
about 1 hour in Painter 8

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/mmayrhoferr/portrait.jpg

There are that much great sketches, so I don't know what to say...

[robinayles]

Hayseuss- That's not a bad start. 2 crits: her eyes appear to be kind of bugged out too much. The eyelids should appear in front of the eyeball and the eyeball set back in the head a little more. The corners of her mouth should be lifted ever so slightly in a smile. I think some shading would really help too.

Kelli - nice colorized version. I think you are really starting to get the hang of faces now. Its just a matter now of learning to do it without the grid.

Friday - excellent sketch, as usual! Welcome back.

Thumbs up also to Mr.Damage, JVaughn & digital_embryo

Aedilhum - I've been meaning to tell you for a while now how wonderful your posts are. You are a really fantastic artist!

SteveV - glad you recognized it.




There are some KILLER posts here.

[deaderthanred]

FridayEve: awesome work! welcome back
I simply had to do one of Enayla too :D
http://img197.exs.cx/img197/2215/enayla6oq.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
Photoshop7, half hour practice quicky

[bealobo]

hi!

I had spent the morning sketching because I felt in the mood, therefore I had enough time to make bad copies of some of yourselves.

this is crazy3dman, with sanguine conte over paper in 20 minutes.

http://photobucket.com/albums/y11/bealobo/retrato01.jpg

this is jannis, with conte over paper in 30 minutes.

http://photobucket.com/albums/y11/bealobo/retrato03.jpg

Little Alex Worthy, 20 minutes, graphite.
http://photobucket.com/albums/y11/bealobo/retrato02.jpg

Deaderthenred, 25 minutes. conte crayon.
http://photobucket.com/albums/y11/bealobo/retrato04.jpg

[bealobo]

I have some more, hehhehe

I love portraits, who can tell?

DesireJ, 25 minutes, conte crayon on paper.

http://photobucket.com/albums/y11/bealobo/retrato05.jpg

kirt, you look so much like john malkovich...
tihs one took me one hour or so, with the wacom, and ... I can´t draw with the wacom...
I tried to follow Nathaniel West's notes...
http://photobucket.com/albums/y11/bealobo/24-kirt.jpg

poor Constanze, so is beatiful and just look now... :) 1 hour photoshop

http://photobucket.com/albums/y11/bealobo/24-constanze.jpg

ok that´s all, I know this is not "regular" (like posting 100 pictures) but hey! people were asking for sketches and I was just in the mood. Please Roberto (happy birthday!) tell me if I have to control myself or whatever. I don´t want to disturb.

:)

[RobertoOrtiz]

I ok that´s all, I know this is not "regular" (like posting 100 pictures) but hey! people were asking for sketches and I was just in the mood. Please Roberto (happy birthday!) tell me if I have to control myself or whatever. I don´t want to disturb.

:)You can post as many pictureas as you want.
And thanks for the birthday wishes.


-R

[deaderthanred]

bealobo: those are simply amazing!! (psst..post more! lol) :love:

[Goro]

wow nice to see the people behind the paintings!

this is me....
Will try to paint potrait later....
http://www.area-56.de/pics/cgtalk/sketchgroup/goro_02.jpg

[Her0d]

Painting portraits is still time consuming and difficult job for me (may god bless the inventors of ctrl+z), so i hope the CocoKnight will not kill me for the final effect:
(50min, Photoshop)

http://ci.com.pl/%7Estf/gfx/constanze.jpg

And here is Adam, one of my sister's child, he's a cute kid for portraits :-)
http://ci.com.pl/%7Estf/gfx/adas2.jpg

[SalamanderCoral]

great portraits guys and gals!
actually this was intended to be a quick one, but it took me about 45 mins. i had a few problems to catch micheles pretty asian look...
pencil & paper, painter, photoshop
---------------------------------


http://www.mathias-huber.com/images/deaderthanred.jpg


with kind regards
yours Salamander

[coCoKNIght]

Her0d: Kill you?! Wow, I love that picture! Thats... GRAND, man I owe you! :beer:
Hey, and there are other two more paintings of her! Hadn't realized, thank you! They're all so different, that's really awesome! :thumbsup:
Hihi, bealobo: were you hiding home alone? :D Great drawings!
SalamanderCoral: I like that one a lot! The endresult doesn't look like you had any problems :)
DSG rulez! :D

[Art2]

FORK
(please don't ban me...)

I had to guess couple of things like the colour of the mask and the hair.

http://www.marlonart.nl/web/sketch76A.jpg
I never do portraits, so it was a bit hard (around 3h).
Left eye looks a bit funky...
Think I'm going to do some more, 'cause it's good exercise.

[elmasfeo]

wow, bea, great sketches, in amount and quality.... good work!

I hope I can do another one tomorrow...
art2, lol, good one, hehehe...

(I've found a better picture of myself, I seem to have only photos of drunken friends in my HD, and they would kill me if I posted any of them...:D)

[Kirt]

LOL - Art2 that is so kick ass! Nailed the color of the mask ... that's kinda spooky. :eek:

I'm saving this one to my HD. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Art2]

Haha, glad you liked it!
I could've made it blue, but that would look like Wolverine's mask ;)
So red was the only option I guess...

[SalamanderCoral]

thats really a masterpiece, Art2 :thumbsup: great!!!

best wishes
Salamander

[Taron333]

...alright, what the hey...I did one, too...I'm really not big of a portrait type of guy...too lazy and not too interested, although I should be...it's most likely great practice, but I just can't fully feel the urge...at least I picked a pretty boy! :)

BTW, lot's of pretty people here....it feels like a mini-siggraph, seeing all the faces...great!

(50min)PhotoshopCS (wacom)
...turns out like a bit of a WIP after all, I keep seeing it and thinking about it...
add..(3min)PhotoshopCS ...and another 20min to f#$ing find out how to save an animated gif out of friggin imageready...DAMMIT...gaaaahhhh...got it now
http://www.taron.de/Storage/Images/2d_sketches/Portrait_Goro.gif

[embryotic]

Bealobo - awesome contributions and so many! you definitely are a talented potraitist (if that is indeed a word at all).

Fridayeve - good to see you bak after a bit - I like you website pix 2; and your shoe collection - you need to get a few pairs of airforce 1's to complete any nike collection
Robinayles - I wish I had drawn you - i may still do....what a little cutee! ha ha :love:

sadly it may be time to move on from this thread - what a great one tho - thanx Roberto!

[Kirt]

Well, I was going to get as many as I could on a standard 11X14 page. But kids are sick and a lot going on around my house this weekend. Here's 6 people all done in about 15 minutes each. So ... (does math and hurts head) ... 1hour and a half? Pencil on paper.

http://kirt.cgcommunity.com/images/ds265.jpg

Sorry about the dirty image. I had to bump up the contrast too much so you could see the drawings. Must remember not to draw with 6H pencil if I'm going to scan it later.

[hh_kiki]

i think i like enalya better without braids too, but the difference is small with a face like that! i'm just the kinda gal that doesn't wanna spend hours on my hair, and with those... i can only imagine!

[bealobo]

wow kirt, good portraits and composition!

[Enayla]

Hey, if I'd known that posting photos of myself would set my face and hair up for constructive criticism, I think I'd rather not have. I love crits on my paintings, not on my looks :/ sorry. That's not really what this thread is here for, right? (And, by the way, the braids are way easier to manage than my jaw-length actual hair)

Thanks to those who've painted me, I've saved every one of them on my hard drive. Awesome looking, and very flattering :]

[deaderthanred]

SalamanderCoral: *blush!* it's a lovely sketch, thank you! :)
Art2, Taron333 and Kirt: too cool!!
Enayla: i've once braided my long hair too and it is indeed easier to manage, except it's kinda costly here to get it done and it didnt look as good as yours do :)

[Goro]

hahahaha Taron!! That's too funny!!

Simply great!
Thnx for that nice portrait!

[ms@zx]

wow,so many great stuff going on here,,i like the one that taron made on goro,kirt,those sketches were awesome,reminds of the time i did for the sketching classes back to my college days,salamander and art2,both lovely piece u guys made:)wish i could do more..

[crazy3dman]

Wow, wow, wow. So many cool portraits here.
AtmaWeapon, CodeNothing, Element5, MrDamage, Bealobo and Kirt. It is so fun to see all the different interpretations of my picture.

CodeNothing - love the ninja girl too.
JVaughn - I want to frame that one.
Kirt - your page of sketches is extremely framable too.
Deaderthanred - great portrait of bealobo under water.
Enayla - :eek: :applause: beautiful, - everyone else kept saying what beautiful eyes she has, but you actually captured them.
And everyone, I just don't have time to name everyone on this thread.

Unfortunately I was out of town for 2 days. So even though I'm late, I'm going to try to do some more.

[DesireeJReynolds]

Yeah, totally agree on the braids issue! I had my hair put into "bo derek in 10" style braids down in mexico. I kept them in for three months with no problem at all!

Again, thank you to each and every one of you who painted me :) I am more than flattered! Enayla, I have yours as my desktop BG! And I have saved all of the others on my hard drive as well :) I think I'll do a "my pictures" screen saver.

[crazy3dman]

Well, here's one. Not an exact likeness, but pretty close I think. :)
Wacom-Photoshop-about an hour I think
http://www.crazy3dman.com/daily_sketch/C3DM_dsg265_2.jpg
http://www.crazy3dman.com/daily_sketch/CodeRef.jpg

[FridayEve]

Its cool to see this thread so busy. I have been swamped at work and most of my free time has gone to that evil Wold of Warcraft. Its nice to feel missed. I liked to see all the different views taken from the same scrap. Here's to another great week of sketches.

[crazy3dman]

Enayla - I couldn't just do a straight portrait of you. :) Hope you like it.

http://www.crazy3dman.com/daily_sketch/C3DM_dsg265_3.jpg

http://www.crazy3dman.com/daily_sketch/EnaylaRef.jpg

This is fun. I'd do a portrait of everyone if I had the time. Great work everyone.

[Art2]

that's a cooool pic 3dman! :thumbsup:

[deaderthanred]

crazy3dman: both portraits rule!:applause:

[bealobo]

wow, crazy3dman, I´m speechless!

You did both directly with the tablet, isn´t it? in that case... how long did it took to feel comfortable with it?
I´m just going mad with the tablet.

Thank you all for your comments. :)

[crazy3dman]

Thanks for the nice comments! :)

Bealobo - I started using the tablet almost a year ago. It took a few months just to get comfortable with it. But at that time, I wasn't drawing everyday. In the time since the beginning of January, that I've been drawing everyday with it, it has really started to feel natural drawing on the tablet.

With the undo command at my finger tips, I've found that I'm much more loose and willing to experiment than I ever was drawing on paper.

[crazy3dman]

Can't ... stop ... portraits. :)

http://www.crazy3dman.com/daily_sketch/C3DM_dsg265_4.jpg

http://www.crazy3dman.com/daily_sketch/RedRef.jpg

[SpeccySteve]

Great portraits crazy3dman! :thumbsup:

[bealobo]

Can't ... stop ... portraits. :)



don´t stop! those are just amazing :)

[El-Rodente]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v301/El-Rodente/meponder.jpg


ill see if i can get a portrait done.. :( not had any time recently schoolwork attacking me


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v301/El-Rodente/enayla.jpg

ok, crappy pic of enayla

[TheTon]

Hello folks!

I must say - Wow! Some EXCELLENT pix on here. Crazy3dman, you seem to have found your niche! Nice work!

Taron, you crack me up man! That's cool!

Here's mine anyway... A bit late I know but I never could resist a portrait...


http://img203.exs.cx/img203/6238/enayla7mg.jpg

Meow!

The Ton

PS MVP, Art2, Ilikesoup, Robin and any other clowns amongst you, any jokes about a giant cat will not go unpunished :twisted:

[Art2]

Did that big, giant T-rex just said "Meow"?... not very frighting is it? :D
(this was not a joke about a giant cat :p)

[crazy3dman]

The Ton - Thanks - I like yours there. Very nice the way you handled the braids. The cat is a nice touch.

[deaderthanred]

crazy3dman: !! i agree with bealobo: dont stop! and thankyou :)
The Ton: meow indeed! :D

[mybutterflyiris]

Yeah I know I'm late with this... Anyways: Painter 9 trial version (runs out in 8 days! *sniff)... and wacom of course...1hr. I really haven't used painter very much though...still fubling about in the program.
ok here it is, my version of enayla:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v669/mightyevilbunny/Enaylapaint.jpg

[TheTon]

Hey Art2, look again... I'd say that a giant T-rex in a cat costume is something to be quite scared about...

http://img220.exs.cx/img220/5661/tonayla6fs.jpg

[Ilikesoup]

Oi, The Ton! 'owz that ladybird's whotsit of yours werkin' out for ya lately? (sorry for my crappy English accent.)

[JDShaffer]

http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/jds/misc/enayla.jpg


Hello, all. I've been enjoying everyone's amazing artwork for months now. Wish I could draw as well as all of you!

I've been doing a lot of "Manga" style pictures for work lately, so I wanted to give it a try. I just couldn't resist staring at Enayla's picture for 2 hours (as I painted). Wonderful pictures, thanks for sharing!

JDShaffer

[elmasfeo]

I've done another portrait to practice, and I may continue with some others... I've never done something like this, and I'm learning some things....as I had already painted kirt I wanted to change and make a girl... I hope you like it
I had almost finished this one yesterday, but my dog decided to sleep over the main switch and he cut the power off the computer...:banghead: I lost quite a lot, but I've done it again today, here it is, I've got 2 versions:
normal one:
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/chapuceros/sketches/sagiR.jpg

and the "avatarized" version:
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/chapuceros/sketches/sagiA.jpg
photoshop, 3h

[JHarford]

crazy3d man , thats an awsome paitning of enayla, very nice, and the one after is cool too :).

[crazy3dman]

Thank you stripe. She was fun to paint. :) Both of them were actually.

[TheTon]

He he! Hey Ilikesoup, the old ladybirds bedspread is doing great! I think I'm starting to get the hang of it! Who knows I might ask for a stag-beetles overcoat for my birthday...!

Your accent ain't too bad either. At least it's not as bad as Don Cheadle's in Oceans 11/12!

"We're in right Barney Rubble!"

Rubbish!

Ton

[Art2]

as ninjababe :)

Again excellent exercise, around 3h (to be save), tried different things like giving her weapons, but after several ideas I skipped the ideas (I was nearing the 3h)
Don't know if I captured the likeness :scream: though.

http://www.marlonart.nl/web/sketch76_B.jpg

Think I'm going to do another one (who shall I pick, heheh...)

[hongchan]

hiya, my first thread in WIP - portrait section, also my first thread in CG TALK. this a portrait pencil sketch of my gal friend. =) i admit i didnt copy exactly how she looks tho. some comments plz...

http://thor.prohosting.com/hongchan/artworks/juen.jpg
http://thor.prohosting.com/hongchan/artworks/juen_sketch.jpg

[InAction]

Sorry man, you forgot to add the picture. :)

[deaderthanred]

Art2: haha:love:so that's how i'd look like with a head scarves :D(it's too hot to wear any head wrappings here tho lol) it's a very good likeness, thank you!

[Mahlikus]

Well, I always look at these things and say, "I should at least try..." and never really do.
But today, while I was on the phone, I sketched this. A poor attempt at a caricature of octothreat. Sorry if ti offends. I really never do caricature. Thought I might learn once and well, was in the mood tonight.

So here goes my first ever post in the daily sketched...

http://prymevalgraphics.com/PG-Garbage/octothreat-caricature.jpg

Thanks yall

[Enayla]

Finally had time to sit down and comment on all the portraits done of me. First off – thank you so much to those who took the time to paint me :D

DesireeJReynolds -- love it :) The colours are all sparkly and sweet, reminds me a lot of how I used to paint fairies and fey a while ago :] Very flattering.

element5 -- Absolutely love the style you used here. Very sketchy and nifty, almost like a reflection on trembling water.

leitchy -- The picture just refuses to load. I’ll check again later and see if it’ll work then :/

gizmodus -- Whoo, love it. You somehow caught that fairytale feel I was aiming for with the photo :)

Vitriolic -- Wow, I’m amazed :D The likeness is actually almost uncanny, you caught a lot of my defining features here. Also love how you did the pale stripe in the bang, it really looks like hair. And great colours, no matter whether they were picked off the image or not. Very smooth, green tones (I love green)

FridayEve -- Awesome colour use here :D It’s so weird, because you’ve picked colours I often use in my self-portrait photos anyway (reddish-purple), so if I just quick-look at it, it looks like one of my photos rather than a portrait. I love the way you made the hair look (especially the brush strokes near the bottom of the braids)

deaderthanred -- I look so cute! :love: Love the look you caught in my eye, there. That’s me in my flirty mode, ha ha. Also, very nice background colour and how you just picked out a few highlights with brighter tones.

crazy3dman -- Hahah, man, you caught the essence of me! I love the evil colour scheme, and how absolutely wicked my eyes look. Also love the stitches, it’s like a combination of the real me and the avatar me from the avatar wars :D (Also, like how you caught my profile. My nose has an odd curve to it that people tend to miss somehow)

El-Rodente -- Me likey :] very expressionistic and stylistic piece, there. I look almost scared (rather than scary, as in crazy3dman’s portrait, heheh)

The Ton -- love, love, love that picture of me. I look delightfully evil, and the way Azrael’s eyes glows is just perfectly wicked! Great way of doing the braids, too, they look almost as if they sparkle! (also, ha ha, Azrael as the EVIL beast in your second version just ROCKS)

mybutterflyiris -- Oo, beautiful colour use. I love the blue of the background and the colours you picked for my skin. Very nice :D

JDShaffer -- Awesome style on this one. I’ve never seen my picture done in cel-shading like that, it looks wonderful. The expression on my face seems so melancholy, almost.


Phew, that’s it, I think. All of them. Again, thanks :D

[TheTon]

Enayla, you're more than welcome. It is most flattering to receive praise from such a good artist.

I am really glad you liked it (and that you enjoyed the underlying menace...)
As you say, it was delightfully evil... :twisted:


The Ton

PS How goth? Merely pop goth or extreme doom goth?

[Octothreat]

Mahlikus - don't worry, I love it:D

Great portraits everyone!!

[element5]

element5 -- Absolutely love the style you used here. Very sketchy and nifty, almost like a reflection on trembling water.



Thanx for your kind words, I hope to get better at doing people...its not one of my stronger skills....Take care :)

[Anariel]

I know it's a bit late but I just got my webcam mailed over from America. My fiance made the screen caps and collage for me. So here's me..and yes, though my webcam is crap, i really am about that pale..http://img62.exs.cx/img62/7857/mecollage8xw.jpg

[Anariel]

Oh, and here's my painting of Enayla. I included a face detail since I had to make the image so small to host it.. *shy* Be nice please, it's my first try at this.
http://img33.exs.cx/img33/8660/enayla1sm1fk.jpghttp://img80.exs.cx/img80/9774/enayla1detail5ss.jpg
Done in Paintshop Pro 7. Took me about 6hrs.

[crazy3dman]

Anariel - Very nice painting! I love the fabric, especially at the botom of her dress.

[Art2]

Anariel, nice painting! Very good likeness, she reminds me of Arwen Evenstar (Lord ot Rings).

[Anariel]

crazy3dman: Thanks, the dress took me the longest of anything.

Art2: Thanks. Yeah, for some reason Enayla reminds me of Arwen a bit, she has that regal high elf quality to her..so I had Arwen in mind when I painted it.

[jmBoekestein]

Haha, somebody just ran outta luck, 'cause somebody's gonna get their face mangled. :twisted: .

Yours truly will see to that.

And for now you'll have to do with this, it's the closest resemblence other than a jackass.
http://i139.exs.cx/img139/6643/orangutaninfant6rn.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us/)

I can't believe I didn't start with your daily sketchgroup sooner!!! AAaargh!

[Art2]

you're going to paint goro?:)

[jmBoekestein]

Hopefully a lot more!

But now he's also on the hitlist, lol.:scream:

[jud]

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