Digital Modern Portraiture
Featured Work
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Stompin by James Shepherd
Impressionist, painterly / two boys doing what they do best in the rain. Digital painting is an emerging art form in which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software. Digital painting differs from other forms of digital art, particularly computer-generated art, in that it does not involve the computer rendering from a model. The artist uses painting techniques to create the digital painting directly on the computer. / I create the painting, directly on my PC, by using a Wacom tablet, a stylus pen and ArtRage painting software. The Wacom tablet can be compared to a canvas or watercolor paper surface. The stylus pen is my paintbrush.
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Cello Lady by James Shepherd
Impressionist digital oil painterly vision of the beauty to be found in music.
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The Look #08 by James Shepherd
The lingering gaze, the outright stare, the “over-looking” of a stranger can make the skin crawl, and perhaps for good reason. The eyes are the windows to the soul. This fact is why we ask people to look us in the eye and tell us the truth. Or why we get worried when someone gives us the evil eye or has a wandering eye. Our everyday language is full of expressions that refer to where people around us are looking. Particularly if they happen to be looking in our direction. / Digital painting is an emerging art form in which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software. Digital painting differs from other forms of digital art, particularly computer-generated art, in that it does not involve the computer rendering from a model. The artist uses painting techniques to create the digital painting directly on the computer. / I create the painting, directly on my PC, by using a Wacom tablet, a stylus pen and ArtRage painting software. The Wacom tablet can be compared to a canvas or watercolor paper surface. The stylus pen is my paintbrush.
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Girl portrait #8 by James Shepherd
Impressionist, Painterly. / True red head flirting with you. / Digital painting is an emerging art form in which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software. Digital painting differs from other forms of digital art, particularly computer-generated art, in that it does not involve the computer rendering from a model. The artist uses painting techniques to create the digital painting directly on the computer. / I create the painting, directly on my PC, by using a Wacom tablet, a stylus pen and ArtRage painting software. The Wacom tablet can be compared to a canvas or watercolor paper surface. The stylus pen is my paintbrush.
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Girl Portrait #11 by James Shepherd
Impressionist, Painterly. / An intense stare.
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Digital Self Portrait by HSartwork
I’m working on my digital drawing skills… This is soo far the best try, when it comes to the way I like a digital drawing to be. I’ve had some inspiration from two different tuts, one for skintones and another for hair. They are really cool, check them out: / http://www.furiae.com/index.php?view=gallery
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Munch-a-puncha by JenniferW
11 May Very kitch / Twee I know… But I have to practice some portrait work for an end of semester folio. As per usual Munch was the only one willing to sit – treats were involed… He’s such a funny little boy… Taken with my new shinny Canon 40D / PS3 – Filter / Brush- Accented edges / Fractlius filter applied (minimal as I wanted it to look more like a painting)
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She Wore A Flower In Her Hair by Mindy McGregor
Having some fun in photoshop, half painting and half photograph! Portrait of my daughter Deliah
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Where Pixies grow... by synister1
The Pixie is a very delicate creature at creation. It is born under the right combination of beauty, imagination, morning dew, and innocence…
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just like a woman by annacuypers
All art and pictures, models and photoshop by Anna Cuypers / Image copyright © 2007, annacuypers. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Many thanks to Sharon for being a fantastic model ! Just Like A Woman by Bob Dylan “Nobody feels any pain / Tonight as I stand inside the rain / Ev’rybody knows / That Baby’s got new clothes / But lately I see her ribbons and her bows / Have fallen from her curls / She takes just like a woman, yes she does / She makes love just like a woman, yes she does / And she aches just like a woman / But she breaks just like a little girl. “
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The Scarf by Silberflug
Digital Artwork. Was featured in Digital Modern Portraiture Group.
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...on my dreams... by dmcart
“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” / William Butler Yeats
Recent Work
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Blue Moon Maiden © by Vicki Ferrari
Blue Moon Maiden © Vicki Ferrari Drawing down the moon! / This is a mix of smoke (the image drew itself so to speak!), imagination, add moon and photoshop, to emphasise aspects of the image! Purchase Card / Purchase Laminated Print / / Purchase Mounted Print / Tech / Nikon D70s / Three photos / Photoshop (uploaded 18th December 2008)
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Just... A Hand. (revised version) by DragonFlyer
My technical skills have increased a fair bit since I created the first image “Just a Hand” that I posted here on RB some time ago. I thought it might be interesting to see what I could make of the concept now, with the better equipment and skills that I (hopefully) have. The actual image of the hand here is a new shot, using a much better lens and more selective lighting. The textures though are the same ones I used before, though I have blended them differently to attempt to make use of more compositional techniques that I was not aware of when I made the original. There is a link to the original below – I would be most interested in anyone’s opinions re the relative value and interest of each version…
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Daisy Head Mayzie by Karen Scrimes
My daughter Kelsey and I had been playing around taking some pictures when I had the idea to have her looking up as if something were coming out of her head. In the back of my mind I was remembering a children’s book by Dr Seuss titled Daisy Head Mayzie. The book is about a young girl who suddenly sprouts a yellow daisy from the top of her head, and the resultant chaos the ensues. Image taken with Canon 40D and Canon 24-105mm lens + external flash. The extract below was found on the internet: Dr. Seuss was dead, but his widow had discovered one last manuscript. Ten years later, Seuss’s sketches for its illustrations were finally expanded to create a complete story. The book is dedicated by his widow “to the ongoing presence of Theodor S. Geisel…Dr. Seuss.” And in “Daisy-head Mayzie”, the narrator is even represented by the ultimate Seuss symbol – the Cat in the Hat! Remember the little girl whose house was visited by the Cat in the Hat? Mayzie looks a little bit like her! She’s got blonde hair and round innocent eyes – but one day at school, “something peculiar was going on.” On the top of her head, she’d suddenly sprouted a daisy! And it befuddles even the adults, including Mayzie’s teacher. I love how the characters have names that sound like Seuss-ical rhymes. The daisy’s confirmed by Einstein Van Tass (“the brightest young man in the whole of the class.”) The girl’s teacher is “Miss Sneetcher,” and she whisks Mayzie to the Principal’s office. And the Principal’s name is “good Gregory Grumm…a very wise man, just as smart as they come.” But most of all there’s funny drawings. Mayzie’s mom is a welder – she’s first seen wearing a blowtorch mask – while Mayzie’s father (with a dapper moustache) works as a shoe salesman. Dr. Eisenbart looks like your classic cartoon quack, with a bald head and tufts of hair sticking up under a stethoscope. And Mayzie’s super-intelligent Principal sits under an enormous arch of school books, staring at the flower through a three-lensed magnifying glass. The drawings seem even more playful with Seuss’s rhymes about the misplaced daisy. “I’ve seen them quite often in fields growing wild. But never before on the head of a child.” The daisy gets bigger, and soon a scheme hatches in the mind of Dr. Eisenbart. “I think that Mayzie and her plant / Could help me get a research grant.” Dr. Seuss seems to be hiding a subversive message in his book. Yes, there’s a daisy on the girl’s head – but the grown-ups all have their own agenda. Soon the mayor has converted Mayzie’s flower into a campaign issue. A Hollywood agent named Finagle appears, offering Mayzie his business card. Eventually her miracle is being commercialized, with “Daisy-head burgers and Daisy-head drinks, Daisy-head stocking and Daisy-head sinks.” But Dr. Seuss has one last twist in the story, since Mayzie believes that she’s lost all her friends. She sits in despair, convinced nobody loves her. And soon all the petals of her flower start dropping off one by one. Why? Dr. Seuss explains in a rhyme. “You know about daisies. When love is in doubt, The job of a daisy is Try and Find Out!”
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Remember by Lyndseyh
Poser 8 and Photoshop Thanks for looking and any comments you may leave L
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Harry's Hideout by susi lawson
One of Cassa Maries older brothers, John. / He received these glasses for his birthday and allowed me to take a few shots. I took the BG image at the local cemetery and combined the images.
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A Little Girls Dream by Mindy McGregor
Stock credits / Model here / tiara here
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Along Came a Spider by simpsonvisuals
This image, a mixture of photography and digital painting, features the face of the young girl in “Stepping Stones,” a marble sculpture created by William Hamo Thornycroft in 1878, and which is now located in the Kibble Palace, part of The Botanic Gardens in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe. The girl is in the process of carrying an infant across a brook, thus the intent look on her face. It just so happened that a spider came along just as the photoraph was being taken. I’ve taken the liberty of painting on bright red lips.
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Tiny Dancer by Tara Lemana
Wow, this one was a bit of a journey! This started life as a photo of my beautiful little sister playing around in the back yard with my kids. I caught her in a pose that reminded me of a Spanish Flamenco dancer and just HAD to try to turn her into one. Only thing was – she was dressed in jeans, a woollen jumper and sneakers. So – first off, she needed a dress. I loathe using other people’s art to make my own so I did not want to take the easy way out by downloading a stock photo for the dress. I had nothing remotely like a the right type of dress to use so I ended up creating this one out of, I kid you not, 417 tiny layers of texture (my own resource, naturally) to create all the waves etc. HOURS and HOURS of work, but the end result was worth it, to my mind anyway. Then of course her hair style needed to be changed from a ponytail into a bun, and flowers needed to be added. / Then I decided that I wasn’t happy with the abstract background I had her in. Next followed a marathon of settings, again all using my own resources, to try her in, from beach scenes to perching on flower petals. Nothing was quite right. / This is what I decided on in the end. My only lament is that because she is tiny, much of the detail in the dress is lost. I hope you’ll view this large to get some idea of just how detailed the dress is, if only to humour me! :))) All resources my own, taken with my Canon Powershot A480 point and shoot in the past month. Proudly New Zealand-Made!!! :) Close up shot of the dancer: SOLD – Two greeting cards of this image, July 2009. Featured in Art and Stories Made for Children, July 12, 2009. / Featured in The Beginners Corner July 12, 2009. / Placed 9th in the Art Of Photography Challenge for the First Things group, Aug 16, 2009. / Placed 6th in the Water Art challenge for the Rain Drops and Water Art group, Aug 2009. / Featured in All Original Fusion Sept 3, 2009. / Featured in The Dutch Connection Nov 11, 2009. Also available as a t-shirt:
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Life in surreal by Gemma Burleigh
Thanks to Stock pic owners. I love creating surreal shots, helps me escape and be creative. Have a lot on my mind lately so it helps when i can get lost in photoshop.
About This Group
Thanks to Mindy McGregor for the use of her image for the group.
This group is for those who create portraits that use the digital medium (photoshop, illustrator, painter etc) or a combination of traditional and digital, to create portraits that represent the sitter or themselves in a modern, abstract manner. For instance, the subjects interaction with the surrounding environment or props that help represent the sitter’s personality. Photographs can be used, but must be digitally altered, no pure photographs (which also includes photo-retouching and colour conversions).
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