Digital Portrait drawing in Photoshop

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I have started a new art blog strictly for art/concept/art kind of stuff.
I hope to update it daily (that’s my goal a least) it seems to have successfully motivated me to make stuff like Rocky below.
You can reach that here: http://alexdailyart.blogspot.com/
I will probably post one here once in awhile when something turns out better than i expected.
This one was originally gonna be a posterized style cutout if you look at the collar of his jacket, but i got curious and spent about 2 hours blending things in.

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Here is a prime example of why this site was made.
This client had a memorable photo he took that had some camera flash artifacts.
Not only was i able to restore this precious photo, but add him into the moment.

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In this piece we started with a regular photograph (far left) in photoshop. Retouching blemishes, blurring skin, darkening and lightening hot spots (middle).
Next we take the touched up photo to painter and start cloning, i used oil cloners mostly, i left a brush stroke look on the outside to eliminate the background distractions. I wasn’t totally satisfied with some details so i took the final painter image back into photoshop, and put the (middle shot) as a layer on top. I masked in certain areas around the mouth, eyes and nose i wanted to be photographic crisp. I finished off by cleaning the reflections on the eyes.

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Here is the same case study, new fruit and new application. This digital painting was done using the photograph in the top left. This time i used only photoshop, and it’s brushes.
I accidentally flatted the initial sketch sorry!
Then you can see i blocked in the basic colours with a size size 60 brush at about 60% opacity 100% hardness. The file size was 8″x8″ 300dpi.

After i lowered the brush opacity to 20% to blend the colours and often used a smaller size 30 brush, still 100% hardness. Keep sampling the blended overlapping colours and brush till you are get a nice gradient.

For a finishing touch i applied a texture to the brush to get a fuzzy, spotted look on some highlights. I never used any blur, smudge, dodge or burn tools at all.

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