TUTORIAL - Digital Master Copy - by Rebeccak

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This is just a brief Demo I put together showing the various stages taken in a recent digital Master Copy I did of a painting by Odd Nerdrum called ‘Woman with Doorknob’. The real painting is gorgeous ~ Odd Nerdrum lives up to his name and frequently depicts odd, though incredible figures in strange landscapes.

Here I am showing my committment to the Anatomy Forum by utterly embarrassing myself and showing you an OLD oil painting sketch I did MANY years ago ~ did I emphasize MANY??? :slight_smile: Ah, well. In the interest of education, I present you with my old crap. :slight_smile:

Recently I decided to salvage this horror of an oil sketch and took a photo of it, shined it up in Photoshop, and called it a day. :slight_smile:

Hope this proves useful. :slight_smile:

[left]1. Horrid old oil sketch. I can’t believe I didn’t trash it. :rolleyes:
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[left]2. Fast forward several years, and I finally decide to salvage the thing with Photoshop. Here, correcting some of the major drawing errors and establishing the darks.
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[left]3. Tweaking and cleaning up the face, while trying to keep the ‘painterliness’ of the intial oil sketch.
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[left]4. Added a 50% opacity layer filled with color (beigeish, probably) and played with the Blending Modes in Photoshop until I found a color climate I liked.
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[left]5. More refining of the facial features, and an attempt to distinguish the background from the face by subduing the contrast between it and her cape.
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[left]6. Bringing out the highlights of her cape and adding small touches to the face.
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[left]The ‘final’ image. Well, I guess digital art is never final. :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak
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Cool
another excellent process here on Cgtalk!

Thanks Rebecca

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MattVogt,

Thanks! :slight_smile: Glad you liked it. :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

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