The Basketball Guy
Just had fun painting this guy since I have been watching so much college basketball recently. The background is of Mackey Arena at Purdue University – my alma mater – used Alien Skin’s Snap Art 4 with a Pastel preset on this. Decided to give him a light beard and mustache by using David Belliveau’s beard brush. The eye iris’s were created using Kristina Sherk’s striations brush (not sure when I got it) and Grut’s OI Chip Gimble brush for the speckles (watch for his free brush of the week-some great brushes at this site). The chalk brushes used are in most of my recent drawings for the skin and uniform. Just followed my regular workflow of doing a rough drawing, then a refined drawing, before adding color below. Next details, shadows and highlights were added…….Digital Lady Syd
Swan Fountain
Loved the Forsyth Fountain in Forsyth Park in historic Savannah, Georgia. The whole fountain is rather magnificent! This image is just of one of the little swans spewing water around the main fountain. Just the basic slider changes were done in Lightroom. Once brought into Photoshop, the image was processed using the modified Factory Setting from Snap Art 3 – for Snap Art 4 I created a matching preset so I could continue using it. There were three layers selecting different parts of the image in Snap Art. Some clean up and sharpening was done and a Curves Adjustment Layer was added for contrast. Kim Klassen’s Cloth & Paper Reign texture was set to Multiply blend mode at 100% and the old OnOne PhotoFrame grunge 13 was added as a last step. Very easy to do and very pretty result!…..Digital Lady Syd
