Posts made by canoek

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cool. post it here please, please please please.

ha, too funny. typing it out makes it seem way too confusing. it really is a very simple technique. here's the first go - took about 10 minutes. share your thoughts (well, maybe not all of them;).

jb

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eric,

mind if i give one of your pics a go at a watercolor? i'm in a practicing mood.

jb

wow. that's really awesome. great job.

you the man, Ross.

that turned out great dylan!! i like it better than mine. thinking that the difference between the two must be the gaussian blur settings. somehow you ended up with a hint of a sun in the upper right corner that conflicts with the shadows on the house, though. but i think your results look very convincing for a dwc.

great job!

jb

modelhead, please post some of your results. i would really like to see what you've been working on. i tried the same technique on one of eric's models - here's the link http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=32626#p32626
thx,
jb

i look forward to seeing it. let me know if i can help.

jb

allright i think i messed with it enough. hope you like it.

no pen and tablet - just my duct taped 2 button scroll mouse.

this may seem complicated - but it is not. it is a lot easier than how i used to do it. should only take about ten to fifteen minutes once you have the hang of it.

i opened up your rendering in photoshop 4.0(haven't upgraded in years)and resized it to 24" wide leaving the height and resolution the same. duplicated the layer twice so i had three of the same in case i screw up (which happens a lot). you should have three layers of the same picture. apply virtual painter plug-in filter - color pencil set to master with everything else set to subtle, follow that with 2 passes of the virtual painter plug-in filter - watercolor set to screen with everything set to subtle to the top layer (3rd) of the layers just duplicated. adjust opacity to allow detail of the 2nd layer through (this keeps detail intact on house otherwise looks blurry). adjust saturation as necessary so doesn't look to bright. link 3rd and 2nd layer together then merge linked layers. now you should have just 2 layers, the filtered one you just created and the original. from here on out i mostly concentrate on the vegetation and the big color areas like the roof and grass, messing with the house generally leads to, well, a mess - so i leave it alone until the end. i use the magic wand to choose areas from the original and copy them to a new layer. on the new layer i apply the filters in the same order as above - 1 color pencil and then 2 watercolors. i then adjust opacity and saturation/hue of this layer until it looks good. then link it will layer 2 and merge. repeat this over and over for different areas of the drawing all the while using the original to select the areas you want to filter. this technique should be giving you the classic watercolor-bleeding-wet-edge-look and imperfections that are characteristic of watercolor paintings. once you've worked over the drawing (and you've finished a 6 pack) it should be looking pretty good. then duplicate layer 2 and apply the standard photoshop water color filter set to brush detail at 9, shadow intensity at 0, and texture to 1 to layer 3. again adjust opacity and saturation/hue until looks good, link 2 and 3 and merge (that sounded a little bit like an aerobics instructor - link 2 and 3 and merge). anywho, at this point you can go back over areas using the same technique that might need work until it looks good. once it is to your liking use the texturizer set to sandstone on a 56% scale and 2 relief. this will give it a nice watercolor paper texture.

well now that i have throughly confused you, i hope this gives you some ideas at least that maybe you haven't tried before. it is working well for me and is saving me a bunch of time. you can also mix in a sketchUp extended or sketchy line style by multiplying it over the original for a more sketched-first-then-watercolored look.

let me know if you have questions.

jb

re-did the grass a bit and toned down colors. looks a little better.

jb

here's the first go. let me know if you like it and i'll post the step-by-step.

jb

i'll give it a go and post it here.

jb

nice model, popa66. do you mind if i watercolor it? i'd like to see how it turns out.

jb

tom -
exported hidden line to jpg at 3000 wide pixels. used ps 4.0 to select regions to color. colored with 50 opacity with multiple passes using a brush on new layer. deselected region. used virtual painter plugin with color pencil filter set to screen with subtle settings. then used virtual painter plugin with water color set to screen with subtle settings except for focus and deformation set to normal. repeated watercolor filter again. repeated this for all regions to be colored all on separate layers. would adjust hue as neccessary. once all areas colored then flattened image. then duplicated layer and applied pencil filter and water color filter again. changed opacity of this layer to allow detail of previous layer to desired effect. flattened image again and ran standard ps watercolor filter with brush detail at 9, shadow intensity at 0, and texture at 1.

seems complicated typing it out but actually only takes 5 or so minutes to do. anyway it seems to be the most realistic watercolor effect i've been able to come up with that doesn't take hours to complete.

hapke - uh, thanks. you've seen the inside of your colon? man - that's messed up. good luck with that.

jb

have been messing around in ps with this quick sketch and have gotten some nice watercolor results. not as involved as the "dennis technique" and yet, to me anyway, seems convincing.

what do you think?

jb

cold.

sure. pretty simple really. crack open a six pack. open your first image in ps (i use ps 4.0). duplicate the background layer. drink one beer. apply standard watercolor filter (brush detail 14, shadow intensity 0, texture 1) to duplicated layer. drink one more beer. change opacity to 75% for this layer and change it to hard light. then flatten image. at this point, you better drink 2 beers. duplicate background layer again and apply gaussian blur (25 pixels) to it. better drink one more beer, just in case. then change this layer to hard light. flatten image again. apply the texturizer filter (texture sandstone, scaling 200%, relief 1) and at this point you might as well finish off the six pack. that way, if your image turns out like "kindergarden-art" you'll be so hammered that you'll still think it looks great.

su on beer-goggles. works for me.

jb

added some ps tricks to your jpg for a dwc effect. hope you like.
glad to share my steps in ps if you're interested.
nice model.

jb

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you the man, Ross.