Progress

I've made a little progress since last time. I feel like I'm almost done with the first one and with the second but the last one has a lot left to do. It's really just tedious filling and shading but I think I'm getting a lot out of it. Expecially since I'm going for photo-realism, this is really improving those set of skills. Which was the point really.

The first two don't have the pencil lines underneath because this is what they looked like when I was working on them last. I would have taken a screen shot but I havne't figured that out yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:President_Theodore_Roosevelt,_1904.jpg The picture I'm using for lighting reference. The actual pose and clothing idea came from a different picture.

http://flickr.com/photos/cyanalab/2977724002/sizes/o/in/set-72157608409587405/ I think it's a 1920's ad or something. Very professional though.

http://www.all-art.org/history658_photography2-4.html You have to scroll all of the way to the bottom of the page for the reference photo.

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Haha. Forgot about the 150 words for the last post.

The way I am approaching this assignment will hopefully help me with my photoshop skills. I sketched out the picture in my sketchbook and transferred them onto the computer. The first picture that I started on was the 1920's one. Her name is Janus by the way. I thought I would start by laying down the main colors on separate layers for each thing. I kinda got frustrated doing that though and I couldn't figure out why so I moved on to the next picture. Instead of filling in the base colors on the 1900's portrait I decided to take each part one step at a time. For example, I started with the jacket because it seemed like the easiest. I filled in the base color but then went back in and did all of the shading and rendering. Then I continued to the dress shirt then the tie in the same manner. I found this a better way to work. I don't know why but it's just better for me.

I plan on starting on the third portrait soon and working through it the same way.

first update

First post for my portrait project. I would post this later and work on it some more but I don't have the power cord for my laptop.

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