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hello this is a time-lapse of a pet
portrait that I did this is going to be
slightly different to what I usually do
in the fact that I don't use the oil
brush in this one as you can see I'm
blocking in color using the pastel so
I'm using the chalk pastel I found this
to be very realistic in the way it feels
and I thought I would want to put in a
bit of texture for this portrait and as
you can see I have the reference on the
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left hand side and I am just basically
it's just a straightforward copy I'm not
planning on really stylizing this too
much at all the chalk is on quite high
pressure for this this is mainly because
I am blocking in later on I look to
reduce that a bit more but as you can
see the texture is coming out quite
nicely on it I don't tend to go forward
particularly textured background just
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pulled out the top level view which is
always something I do quite quickly I
tend to keep my eyes quite a lot on the
right-hand side just to see that
everything is looking okay but I don't
tend to zoom in too much anyway to my
art now just pulled out the palette
knife and on the soft mode which is my
favorite mode and pulling out some hairs
already adding detail I think maybe I'm
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adding detail a bit too early on here
but hey ho this is experimenting I want
it I was too eager I think to get into
the detail of it and I wanted to jump
straight into the eyes possibly a bit
too fast now switch to pencil mode and
going straight in there with a pencil
you also get a bit of texture it works
with the canvas as well and that's also
what I wanted a natural feel for this
painting
always go for the eyes quite early on
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because that's gonna be the focus of
this portrait and also using the pencil
tool to work in more detail it's
carrying on with pencil lots of zigzag
movement to generate a bit of randomness
to get the texture to come out with the
fur a bit of experimentation I'm going
to be using the pencil and the palette
knife to pull out some detail here you
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can see I'm just zooming around my
reference and focusing on particular
areas just speed this up a bit this is
at an early stage blocking things in
going back and forwards using the pencil
and then the pastel back to the palette
knife they're building in a bit more
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detail refining things a bit you may see
there that's what I did is I was happy
with where I was and I took a copy of
where I got to and put it into a layer
right at the bottom of my layer panel on
the right hand side I do this quite
often I've been recently going out of
the habit of doing that a little bit
more because it increases the size of
your ArtRage files and also I don't tend
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to go back too much to what I've done in
the past is it's me setting a baseline
where I get to decent points in my
painting and I just keep it within the
ArtRage file typically these days I do a
bit more exporting and export it to an
image and I'm quite happy just to import
it again and of course if you keep the
layer and you just copy it maintains all
the bump information and all the
thickness of the paint which I do quite
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like but I don't really too often go
back on what I've previously done and
take out
I've done as you could see there I was
just using the palette knife and the wet
option which was blurring around the
edges of the portrait because I have an
idea of what I want to do with this and
it really is a case of blurring
everything else around the face of the
cat and pushing the background into the
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back and therefore bringing the face
forward and then you'll I will be drawn
to the detail around the eyes is the
main aspect of it and as you move
further backwards you will gradually
lose detail I am now working on just
copying from reference really and just
building in the body and I'm not sure if
I'm completely happy with that it's
something again I'm just blocking in and
using on a different layer underneath
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what I've already got layers very useful
in this case usually I don't use too
many layers I like to keep it quite
simple almost pretty traditional playing
around with it I wasn't quite happy with
that I was playing around with the
colors a little bit to try and get it to
match the main face but I given up on
that for the moment I'll come back to it
laying in a bit more detail here with
the pastels adding a bit more variation
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in contrast adding in some light here
bit of rim almost if you can call it rim
on a furry cat face just adding in more
detail I do have a habit on my art of
outlining things I know I shouldn't do
it but I do anyway because hey-ho it's
what I like to do so why not do it I'm
playing around with things I was moving
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the body so I couldn't quite get the
body right regarding the reference so I
thought I would just move things around
and decided to add in a bit more detail
using the stamp brush
got here the sticker spray brush using
my favorite bear fur which comes
pre-installed as part of the default
presets of ArtRage and seeing if I can
get it to fit in with my current art
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alright so I'm at the stage at the
moment where I'm starting to add in more
detail and I'm a bit lazy I I like to
start things in with the stickers brain
user usually overlay blend mode but I
don't overdo it it's a subtle thing and
of course having it in a separate layer
I can change the opacity of it
sometimes I even change the blend mode
and the blends may work quite well not
quite sure whether this is all fitting
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in it's a bit of an experiment really I
think I was kind of happy with it
therefore I merged down into a layer
which I always like to do as much as I
can do to merge everything though now
adding in a bit more detail and I'm
starting to pull out some bright lights
now I will have this layer in a color
dodge blend mode which I really really
do like but you need to be careful with
that because it's such a rates and also
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it brings out the highlights and of
course the focus on this was the eyes
you can see that the I brought the eyes
out a bit more than the reference
indicate but that's a conscious stylized
decision of course this is a piece of
art and you can do what you want with it
thinking about the background again now
really want to do I do want a darker
background because it will bring the
face forward putting in some almost end
level details the it was the things that
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I was holding back on with all the
whiskers I didn't want to put them at an
early stage because I would just because
I'm typically working although I've got
this on a separate layer I would
I said I still want to motifs from town
as soon as possible and adding in some
more detail again I am avoiding doing
the background aspect of it but I can
see on the right hand side with the
top-level view it's it's looking okay
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it's looking alright
it's almost looking you know the idea
that I initially had to a certain extent
was to just have a face but I do want to
do that background and there's a case on
this that I could just keep adding in
more and more detail I could changing
the pencil as I'm doing here I can do
more fur I could go fur crazy the in the
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end you do get to a point where you get
to ministering returns you could work on
this for 10 hours or something and get
it to look have all the fur every single
item of every hair is there but I don't
really want one I'm slightly lazy so
what I want to do it anyway and to I
think you lose the effect and you can
start to overwork painting as you can
see on the right hand side in the layers
I've got a single layer and now I'm
playing around with blend mode so I'll
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have this in overlay just to try and
bring some color out and to bring some
lighting out again I'm taking a backup
of what I had but I was happy with where
I was now I thought I would cheat
because I wasn't really getting the
background particularly well and I just
use a tracing layer and just worked it
in in that way sometimes I do this again
because I'm generally quite lazy now I'm
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starting to work my own and also because
I traced it just to get the blocks in
and just to get the rough color in there
but it was only simple blocks that I was
doing anyway it's not as if I was
tracing anything more detailed now I
want to push the face forward the
palette life
come out and I'm using the wet blender
which is quite an interesting concept
and of course you can mix media with
digital tools in the fact that I can
apply a wet blender on past tools and
I'm not messing all the paper up or
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anything which is quite handy and I like
the effect of this and that's it's
really bringing out the eyes the fur and
that body and the background still isn't
really working I think when I'm probably
gonna end up doing is just really
blurring it a lot really sits into the
background if your eye is drawn too much
towards it and I just want to take that
out a bit of experimenting putting some
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blur undoing and I wasn't sure whether I
wanted to relight background or a dark
background or textured or not playing
around here with the colorful or
different textures on a different layer
and I think I was quite happy with that
so I brought it to the background it's
looking okay I'm kind of quite happy
with it I'm not going to add in the
grass from the reference I think I'm
quite happy with the texture that I've
introduced in the background which i
think is a default texture as well which
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is supplied in ArtRage which is I think
the wooden panel I think that's right or
something like that anyway which I use
quite often in my backgrounds because it
adds a warmer tint and also it's a
really nice texture but and it's not
overdone it it's it's well in the
background I'm getting pretty happy with
this what I'm doing now is I'm importing
into Picasa 3 and I'm tweaking things
tweaking the colors playing around a bit
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because it makes life a lot easier it
has been discontinued now by Google but
it still works and it's nice quick and
easy and it just exported as an image
playing around with things I typically
just increase the sharpness slightly and
I'm playing with a blur as well which I
actually use in the end to push the
background even further back and
I've just imported and as you can see
the contrast was a lot better and it
just brings things out and that's the
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final thing as you can see the
combination of many different aspects to
bring out the detail and the background
was blurred quite a lot in the end but I
think it I think I was happy with that
because it brings your focus into the
face which is what it's all about
okay thank you very much
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