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Posted on 07/02/14 11:56:38 AM |
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salfordnurse
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Oil painting tutorial
Here as promised is my oil painting tutorial. I must stress that use a high quality image for this. 1 Open your image in photoshop 2 Duplicate the layer twice so you have 3 copies of it. 3 Create a new blank above the copies (layer-New-Layer) and fill it with a smokey blue colour (6c7695) 4 Create a new pattern fill layer above this (layer-New Fill layer-Pattern) 5 Set the pattern to a canvas pattern/texture (these can be found under artists surfaces or artists painted surfaces by clicking the little cog in the corner of the pattern fill box and selecting them from the list) 6 Scale the pattern up to deemphasise the repeating pattern, but not so much that it looks unnaturally large. This is something you will have to do by eye, and is more of a personal preference. Finally change the blending mode of this layer to multiply, and reduce the opacity to around 60% 7 Next drag one of your image copies to the very top of the layers stack and apply the glowing edges filter , for my image I used these settings, you just want a nice thin line showing some of the detail. 
8 Finally de-saturate this layer (image-adjustments-desaturate), Invert it (image-adjustments-invert) and set its blending mode to multiply. Your layer stack should now look lie the one below 
9 Now turn off the visibility of all the layers except for background layer and the copy above it 10 Now select the smudge tool, and select a small spatter brush, and with strength set to around 40-46%, zoom into your image and slowly start to smudge with small strokes backwards and forwards, trying to follow the contours and structure of the face as you do, though leaving the hair un smudged for now. For small areas around the eyes use a smaller brush and for large areas of flat skin, use a larger one (you can change size using [ and ] ) Do not rush this step. Take your time if the face has wrinkles or sags of skin try and emphasis this through your painting strokes. 10 next increase your brush size and strength to around 60% and repeat the process with the hair 11 now increase the strength to around 70-80 and roughly blur the background together, ignore objects we are simply making a soft background for our painting 12 Move this layer up, so it is under your pattern fill layer and turn on the visibility of all the layers 13 Add a layer mask to this layer and fill it with black (or press alt while clicking the layer mask icon) 14 Now select the paint brush and select the same spatter brush you used for the smudge tool and increase the size (i used around 110 pixels) 15 Go to brush properties turn off smoothing and select texture, select the same texture you used for the fill layer and use the same scale 
16 now paint with white at around 50-60% opacity roughly on the layer mask going backwards and forwards over your strokes, until most of the canvas is covered, don’t worry about changing the size of the brush just paint. try and leave some of the blue background showing 17 apply smart sharpen at around 500% and radius to between 1.5 and 2.0 18 Duplicate this layer, move so it is the second layer from top. refill its layer mask with black to hide it. 19 Add a bevel and emboss layer effect to it and change the following depth 2 and size 1 20 now select a normal round brush and set its hardness to around 50%, and set the flow and opacity to 100. 21 back in the brush properties panel make sure texture is off 22 now paint with white where you thing should have thicker paint again this is a personal choice, but try to think of objects near the front having more paint, and prominent facial features e.g. nose etc. Do not paint the background to much as it will have the effect of sinking your person away from you. 23 now if you have CS6 and the colour look up option, add this as a layer above your image, fall colours and leave it at 100% with a normal blending mode. if you don’t have this option add a photo filter layer set to a warming colour. 24 flatten your image or make a merged copy. 25 create a new layer above this, fill it with 50% grey and change the blending mode to overlay 26 now using the dodge and burn set to low opacities use them to emphasise the shadows and highlights (Do not go overboard and get carried away.) I won’t go into it here as this tutorial is already too long and there are many tutorials available on dodging and burning I believe there may be one in Steves book 
27 you are finished. Here is my final image. 
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Posted on 17/03/14 6:49:46 PM |
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BigVern
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Re: Oil painting tutorial
What a great technique and so clearly explained. Thank you Simon. _________________ "We're going to need a bigger boat!" Jaws |
Posted on 18/03/14 08:11:17 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Oil painting tutorial
Good tutorial! And I've fixed that broken link for you. |
Posted on 21/03/14 9:30:20 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Oil painting tutorial
Well done for the effort Simon! But my God, I'd rather go up Mount Everest backwards than have to go through all that procedure! Isn't there a quicker way, and what about plugins? I've got a life to lead you know!  |
Posted on 21/03/14 9:37:18 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Oil painting tutorial
Well done for the effort Simon! But my God, I'd rather go up Mount Everest backwards than have to go through all that procedure! Isn't there a quicker way, and what about plugins? I've got a life to lead you know! |
Posted on 26/03/14 12:24:55 PM |
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salfordnurse
Intensive Illustrator Posts: 207 Reply |
Re: Oil painting tutorial
Thanks for the kind words, every one, and thanks Steve for fixing the Broken link (wasn't that an episode of Star trek?) I guess the quicker way would be to use the oil painting filter. 1. duplicate the layer twice. on the lower layer apply a slight gaussian blur. 2. create a pattern fill layer above it set to artist canvas, multiply at 60% opacity 3. on the other duplicate layer which should be at the top apply the oil paint filter, add a layer mask and fill with black 4. paint back in areas, with white which would have thicker paint. I think I just came up with this method so you can be more creative with it, but your right it is a tad long winded.  |
Posted on 17/04/14 6:15:05 PM |
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Calasade
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Re: Oil painting tutorial
Awesome. Best tutorial and end result I've seen on oil-painting techniques. |
Posted on 20/04/14 12:49:06 PM |
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salfordnurse
Intensive Illustrator Posts: 207 Reply |
Re: Oil painting tutorial
Thank you  |