Artwork for All - challenges, graphics, tutorials

[Jumble]

Thank you

[Samantha-Carter-is-my-muse]

Challenge entry:

[Jumble]

I know it's early, but I'm going out later. If there are any more entries I'll edit them in later

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Challenge 228

Flowers

Your challenge this week is to make artwork that somehow incorporates flowers.
As always, how it does this is up to you

Samantha-Carter-is-my-muse




Jumble



Josiane

[Jumble]

CHALLENGE WEEK 229

HOT!

Your challenge this week is to create a piece of artwork showing any interpretation of HOT!

PLEASE SEND YOUR ENTRIES TO SARAI BY 5PM UK TIME ON FRIDAY

Please remember to put your name or initials in the filename or on your piece.

[josiane]

Curses, and there was me thinking I was just going to sneak in before the deadline

(RL still pretty frantic but I had a day off today in lieu of the bank holiday so finally got some PS time )

Also just finished binge-watching this...

[Jumble]

Edited

[JadedWraith]

I've been resisting for years but I decide to try Topaz clean. The advantage is that everything looks very smooth....and the down side is exactly the same. So I am trying not to over do it and make it look very artificial.

Well, you'll be the judge.



( this is a thumbnail-click to see it full size).

[maneth]

Lovely, JW!

[Samantha-Carter-is-my-muse]

I've been resisting for years but I decide to try Topaz clean. The advantage is that everything looks very smooth....and the down side is exactly the same. So I am trying not to over do it and make it look very artificial.

Well, you'll be the judge.

https://t.imgbox.com/8hdIpRLR.jpg

( this is a thumbnail-click to see it full size).

I did not know what Topaz clean was until I googled it I think it looks great, JW!

[JadedWraith]

I did not know what Topaz clean was until I googled it I think it looks great, JW!

It's a a set of filters designed to smooth out surfaces in photos. It was all the rage a few years ago in graphics and I didn't like the look because it made everything look slightly cartoony. But some people can really rock the style (yamiinsane comes to mind!) I am still trying to find the settings which gets me smooth surface but still make the image look "normal". Not there yet.

[josiane]

Nice work, Jaded I tried it out at one point too but could never get it to look right. I don't think I have the right style for it, really, and I know what you mean that some people overdo it and it gets cartoony if you're not careful. But I think you've hit it pretty well there, well done!

[Sarai]

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Challenge Week 229
HOT!

slizzie1986


JadedWraith

[Sarai]

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Tutorial Week 65

This week is a Tutorial Week. For the first week every month, we don’t issue a challenge, but instead want to encourage thread participants to share their expertise and try something new, using tutorials.

This is how it works:

1. Share a tutorial: Write a tutorial for a piece of art you have made recently, or post a piece of art you have made with the link to the tutorial you followed when you made it.

2. Follow a tutorial: Use one (or more) of the tutorials that other thread members have shared during the week to make a piece of art of your own.

The idea is that we should both teach something and learn something throughout the week It’s not obligatory to do both, if you’re limited for time, but we’d like to encourage you to please both share and follow at least one tutorial if at all possible.

At the end of the week we will post all the tutorials along with any art made following each tutorial, so that we can see all the different interpretations all together.

Please PM your entries (both your original tutorial and any art you make following a tutorial this week) by 5pm Friday (UK time) to JadedWraith

[JadedWraith]

I made this



based on this tutorial by Highwater

Edit: I reentered the link

[josiane]

That's lovely, Jaded!

I was going to do a tut for this one last time round but RL got in the way, so have it now!

Spoiler:

1. Open a new canvas and first fill it with this lined paper texture. Adjust the size and dimensions so that it fills the canvas completely.



2. Next add this picture, positioned so that only the top half is used with the lovely sky gradient. Set it to soft light.



3. Next add this texture, again resized to fill the canvas completely, and set to hard light.



4. Now add your main character picture, set to hard light, and use a layer mask to blend it in.

5. Duplicate this layer and set the top one to soft light.

6. Add the secondary character picture, also set to hard light, and again blend in using a layer mask.

7. Now go back to your lined paper layer, use the eye dropper to pick the matching colour (#dad3ba), and using a big soft brush, paint underneath your character pictures to get rid of any lines showing through, particularly under the face.

8. Now three more textures all set to lighten - position them around the edges of your main character pic so that the light coloured bits help to blend its edges - this is a great tip if you struggle with blending smoothly, just cover up any dodgy edges with textures/light splodges!



9. Finally add this texture, set to overlay, and use a layer mask with a really big soft brush to delete most of it so you just get the punctured edge bit showing.



10. Now the composition is done, some colouring. First a selective color layer with the following settings:
- Yellows: C 0, M 0, Y -45, B -30
This takes some of the harsh yellows out.

11. Next a color balance layer:
- Shadows: C-R +20, M-G 0, Y-B +25
This gives it some more purply tones.

12. Then make a stamp of the whole thing and set to multiply as 20%. This makes it look a bit less washed out.

13. Now the text. The Spanish lyrics are in Rough Typewriter, #0f0017, set to color burn at 70%. Santiago Cabrera is in Delicious SmallCaps and is two layers, slightly offset to create a slightly 3D effect. The bottom one is #1c1775 and the top one is #f16c68. I picked all the colours using the eye-dropper from various places on the canvas.

14. Finally make another stamp of the whole thing and use filter > paint daubs to sharpen. For this one, it oversharpened a bit on the character pics (it works better with some pics than others), so I erased those bits using a layer mask. And that's it!