"Watercoloresque"

dale

Inspired by the recent "watercoloresque" work from tomsdesk, and needing a way to express a small market space, (with people) for a project we are working on, I came up with this. I always find it difficult to use real looking people in renders, and so I think this kind of pointillist attempt has some merit.
SketchUp-Kerkythea-Photoshop
Comments or crits appreciated.

Watercolor farmers market (3).jpg

fymoro

Watercoloresque is a very good example of anglofrench word...
Very nice and very artistic image

mirjman

very playful - might check out a different view angle or rearrange the tents since they are all kind of lining up rigidly right now

tomsdesk

Really cool, Dale, and the color composition is great!

I had an idea to try: make a layer copy of the image before applying the stroke filter, then play with erasing out areas to give the stroks some variance and punch...?

dale

Thanks for the comments everyone. Tom, I could probably do that because the strokes are on a layer, and I have just set the opacity of the layer to adjust. Actually this has 5 copied layers with different effects used on each,and layer opacity fooled with to taste. It was really quite fun.
I applied some of the ideas from this nifty little tutorial I discovered, http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=46462
It's worth look.

Now a question: Is there any easy way of applying the settings I have used in Photoshop, so that I can duplicate the look for other views of the model, so that there would be some consistency in 3 or 4 renders? Or is this just a trial and error job?

tomsdesk

Wow! Dale, what a great link and site...thanks a bunch! (It is fun foolin' with a bunch of layers and playin' the possibilities, huh?)

I use PSP and I assume there may be a way to write a script for repeats, but...what I do is save a PSP file with all the layers and settings, then for a new image I start with that: either copying my new stuff into it or layers from it into my new file. It works, and I can then fuss the new as I choose.

dale

Thanks Tom,I knew there would be a work around. Yeah that's a fun site.

alpro

Dale, in PS you can record what you did and then save it as an action, then next time all you have to do is play the action and it will go through all the settings you used previously. BTW a very nice image.

Mike

dale

Thanks Mike. Do you have to be recording the action as you are doing it, or can you do it in the save PS file after the fact?

olishea

Great postcard-feel image, but whats with these diagonal strokes/hatches?