Layloni

she wears flowers in her hair…..

i'm taking Gillian Lee Smiths Unearth Gather Create class

in hopes of improving my drawing/painting skills. one of my

first assignments was face mapping and shading. this is my

first attempt:

as far as face mapping.. the proportions aren't correct..

although with faces really anything goes. i opened my

drawing in iColorama and changed it in Style to

Threshold to get this:

i took this to PS CS5 and used the select tool on the

black…saving it as a png (i also made a brush to use

in CS5). this allowed me to use the drawing without

including the white background.

next i opened this image of a Klimt painting in Repix:

 i used the Van Gogh brush to blur

sections of the photo ending up with this:

then on to Procreate where i added the

png of my drawing:

i cropped out the section with the face and

painted in the flower..white high lighting and

the design in the lower right corner. 

next i took it to iColorama and added the lettering

in the lower left corner and the paint drips.

i then opened it in Analog…adding the white dust

and scratches…to get the finished piece.

Red On My Mind a Digital Collage Tutorial

Geri Centonze over at Art of Mob issued a challenge

on instagram to create a face collage using parts from

different photos. this is one of my favorite things to do

so i created Red On My Mind. i thought i'd walk you 

through my creative process to show how i made this piece.

i began with a picture taken with my iPhone at a ceramics

exhibit.

i opened this in iColorama app and changed it

to a painterly look.

opened this in Procreate app and then opened

my color outside the lines collage as another

layer and erased everything except the eyes.

below is what i ended up with. i also brought in a layer

with a letter written in a childs handwriting and erased

it all except what you see on the cheek.

then i opened the above image in ImageBlender as

the background and opened the picture i did below

as the foreground.

i played around with the opacity modes and

slider and then masked out all but the hair and glasses.

i took this photo back to iColorama and again

applied a painterly look. next i wanted a better

background so i opened my Tintype collage

in ImageBlender as the background and then 

brought in the above image that i had painted.

i moved the woman off center and then masked

out all but her figure. next i took the combined

photo back to iColorama and used brush/paint

to do a wash of color over the numbers to

make them fit my colors. i wasn't too happy

with top of her nose so i took the picture back

to ImageBlender and brought in the original

painted ceramic picture on top and masked

all but the nose to cover that light patch under

her glasses. i like how it turned out. i'd also

like to say that i'm sure all these steps could

have been done in iColorama…i'm just not

that good with the app…it's a powerful app and

one that i would suggest you add to your

collection.