smudgepainter

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:33 pm**

I found the original image at stockvault.net (thanks to Palms for the reference to stockvault).

Painted the veil using a very small AHB. My working image was 3000 X 4580 pixels. So the veil work was VERY tedious. But, I think the result works.

Hope you like it.

Marty

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:53 pm**

Marty,
Terrific work! I can see where that veil would have required a lot of patience. Because you probably had to work with a small brush to master and keep intact the detail. Eyebrows are also very good-what brush at what opacity?I really like the black background for this subject and your thin frame is just a perfect outline to accent the girl's profile.
Very,very nice work!!!

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2009 4:03 am**

Excellent Marty , Superb work on the veil

If you need any more links let me know and i will post some (as i find them i bookmark them into there own folder so that i dont have to trawl to far to find anything )

Palms

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:28 am**

Very nice. The veil looks great.
Nancy

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:50 am**

Patre, thanks for taking the time and trouble to analyze my Prayer smudge. And thanks for your nice compliments.

For the eyebrows, I used the rough round bristle brush at 10 pixels and an opacity of 70 or 80% for the first pass, followed by 20 pixels at about 30% to blend and fill missed areas. But keep in mind that here, the main eyebrow encompassed an area of roughly 300 x 700 pixels on the working image -- and that therefore it would be proper to adjust the brush's size and/or opacity to account for different brow dimensions.

Marty

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:03 pm**

Thank you , Palms.

I'm always on the lookout for nice, hi-res, smudge-worthy images. So if you could suggest some sites at which I might find few of these jewels, I'd be eternally grateful :lol:

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Best,
Marty

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:05 pm**

Thank you, Nancy.
I really appreciate your comment.

Marty

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:14 pm**

Marty, I forgot to mention that the eyebrows look fantasitic, remarkable also. That's one of the first things I always notice.
Nancy

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:39 pm**

Thanks for the "brush" info, Marty..

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:37 pm**

Thanks again, Nancy.

I always take a "time out" from the routine smudge work to spend time on the eyebrows. They take a little extra care and patience to follow closely the directions of the individual hairs -- to the extent that's possible to do -- with a rather small brush, as I descrbed in my response to Patre's "brush guestion."

Marty

Posted: **Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:19 am**

MartyH wrote:Thank you , Palms.

I'm always on the lookout for nice, hi-res, smudge-worthy images. So if you could suggest some sites at which I might find few of these jewels, I'd be eternally grateful .

Best,
Marty