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| Adding Colour To B&w Portrait; hay-yulp hay-yulp | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 22 2010, 07:43 PM (794 Views) | |
| KatLeib | Apr 24 2010, 10:29 PM Post #11 |
 
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I wouldn't be 'AFRAID' to do it but you have to have a plan and understand what the color will do. This is no different than doing a grey scale piece and adding candy color. So its a bit of work but you will never now how it will/could look UNLESS you try. I don't think it will mud up at all if your grey colors are correctly mixed. |
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| Sam | Apr 25 2010, 06:33 AM Post #12 |
 
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I would leave the b/w pic alone....can't see how you can lighten it without creating a lot of mess to sort out. If you want to do a colour version then start from scratch. I use thinned raw sienna to build up the structure then add darker tones with thinned burnt umber. I did this portrait howto several years ago but you might get something from it Portrait Howto |
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| Svee | Apr 25 2010, 09:23 AM Post #13 |
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Thanks Sam, thats a useful little tutorial that *bookmarks it*. Cheers everyone, you are all  sIm gonna try to add colour and like Kat said, you dont know unless you try. Ive always been a big believer of that. The background is going to have a few bits of tattoo flash so down the left side i want to do an oriental dragon, the right side will have a tiger, top will have a swirly banner with the shops name on it in swirly script and at the bottom im thinking a heart with wings. Im hoping i can do the colours like Jaime rodriguez's work...  |
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| Sam | Apr 25 2010, 11:10 AM Post #14 |
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Svee if I was trying to get the vibrancy of Jamie's colours , I'd use HOK candys |
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| Svee | Apr 28 2010, 07:20 AM Post #15 |
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Well ive given it a shot and i dont think the results are too bad at all...  Ive blocked out her mouth though cos i boo boo'd with the burnt umber and made her look a bit like Noel Edmonds. Better fix that :lol: |
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| Hasey | Apr 28 2010, 11:27 AM Post #16 |
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Looks good Svee but you should show it all, warts an all 
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| KatLeib | Jun 4 2010, 11:39 AM Post #17 |
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So how did this ever come out? |
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| Svee | Jun 4 2010, 11:54 AM Post #18 |
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Geetarrs have taken over so i havent had a chance to get any more done on her yet  Laura (the lass in the pic) in curretly in Malta getting married so i have another week or two before she comes back and opens her tattoo shop. Better jump back on it next week. No rest for the wicked eh :rolleyes: Thanks to doing this pic im getting a half sleve tattoo from one of her guys in the shop to mark 5 years in the airbrushing biz for almost nowt
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| Zaragon | Jun 4 2010, 05:29 PM Post #19 |
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Oh I wouldn't say that you accomplished nowt in five years and how much is the tatoo costing you  |
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| Svee | Jul 6 2010, 02:20 PM Post #20 |
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This has been on the back burner for a while now but the time has come to get it finished. Spent yesterday working the face again as she looked a bit like Noel Edmonds lol. Also added a little more orange, brown and even a ickle blue to the flesh tone.  Today was spent sketching out the background. More soon
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