We’re getting Older.

It was supposed to be “New Art Wednesday” here, at least that’s what I told myself, but I let it slip. Doesn’t matter, because here I am now, with another project. This one was finished Tuesday morning, the assignment was to use the power of Photoshop and Painter to take someones portrait and age that person. I started out with a picture of the spectacled, yellow-tied man on this webpage.

What I ended up with was what I have posted on this webpage. Originally I was going to do the extra work and make it a color portrait. But after doing the black and white value study I found that it looked pretty kick-ass that way. It also added to the “aged” effect of the project. So I saved the extra color work for never.

My process was to take pictures of three old men, and then with photoshop make a composite “old-man” mask on top of the original picture. I adjusted the composite so that the eyes, brow, width of the mouth, and nose were at the same place. When capturing likenesses, the eyes, brow, lips and nose, both their placement and size are very important. Then I opened the photshop image in painter and in a new layer painted the thing, referencing my composite in photoshop.

Shackles.

The bonus drawing is from my clothed figure drawing class. The bonus drawing started as the thumbnail you see to the right. Before I finished people assumed that I was going for some kind of S & M thing, they were in for a surprise. My mind isn’t always in the gutter like the rest of America. It’s in the sewers. Pardon the imperfect quality of the image, but since it’s “Bonus” material I did the best I could with a camera, which is not much but good enough.