Painting with Photoshop

[le gravy noire]

Hi,

I thought I might do a painting for my brothers flat for his birthday, but I dont have any paint or know how to use a brush and it all sounded a bit messy, so I thought I could do a painting in photoshop using the pen tool to draw the shapes. I saw a photo of Kristen Kreuk that I thought would be a good starting point.

Anyway, 300 layers and 21 hours later (id never used the pen tool before and had to re-do all the bits i did first!), its finished and ready to be printed onto a canvas. I hope he likes it as I am quite pleased for my first go.



Here are some crops:





Matt

[Mrs Fish]

Absolutely blinkin fantastic

[rude girl]

Mrs Fish said:

Absolutely blinkin fantastic

Ditto. I'd be dead chuffed to have that in my house.

[te51cle]

Blimey that's good !! The reason I take photographs is that I can't paint, draw or do anything like that !

[graham@reading]

I seriously hope you have a graphics tablet That would be a right bitch with a mouse (or a trackball in my case).

[le gravy noire]

graham@reading said:

I seriously hope you have a graphics tablet That would be a right bitch with a mouse (or a trackball in my case).

Mouse

[graham@reading]

Very impressive

[Bodo]

I like it alot!
Wouldn't it be possible to achive similar results by vectroising a bitmap, and then reworking the paths and colours?

Edited by Bodo on Wednesday 6th September 21:00

[UKBob]

really really nice work!

[badbeachbuggy]

Looks great Matt

[le gravy noire]

thanks chaps!

[joust]

Excellent!

Now go and do the opposite in Illustrator

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=304988&f=109&h=0

[p.s. it would have been easier in illustrator ]

J

Edited by joust on Wednesday 6th September 22:48

[V6GTO]

Mate...I've just realised what I want from you for Christmas

Martin.

[le gravy noire]

joust said:

Excellent!

Now go and do the opposite in Illustrator

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=304988&f=109&h=0

[p.s. it would have been easier in illustrator ]

J

Edited by joust on Wednesday 6th September 22:48

I doubt it would have been easier in illufrustrator because I don't have a copy of it and have never used it! hehe.
Also, surely the vector pen tool is the same?

[graham@reading]

Right, can you do me one of Kristen Kreuk, Alisson Mack AND Erica Durance?

[Podie]

Too bloody good... jeez, I wish I was able to do stuff like that :sigh:

[_dobbo_]

yo Matt, did you do this by line drawing around a photo with a semi-transparent layer, or did you build it up from scratch?

Whatever, it's pretty cool, not sure I'd have the patience!

[pikey]

Extremely impressive! Also gifts with lots of effort like that are so much better than something one can buy! He'll love it!

[le gravy noire]

thanks chaps.

I used the photo as a guide but tried not to make it identical.

Seasider I've not got a mail from you, but ive sent you one. Ben, I hope he likes it.. I think it will fit his flat quite well

Matt

[wolves_wanderer]

Very nice, I wouldn't even know where to start.