Scylla Rhiadra 29,619 Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 This one is of Mitch Charron, a friend and the builder of the pretty amazing Great War sim, Scapa Flow. 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Doc Carling 1,173 Posted March 28 Author Share Posted March 28 11 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said: This one is of Mitch Charron, a friend and the builder of the pretty amazing Great War sim, Scapa Flow. I know this one. The Louvre in Paris reported it as stolen. Just kidding. An absolutely fantastic job. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Eddy Vortex 2,486 Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 17 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said: This one is of Mitch Charron, a friend and the builder of the pretty amazing Great War sim, Scapa Flow. I really like this one. It looks like a real painting you'd find in a popular museum. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Scylla Rhiadra 29,619 Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 6 hours ago, Doc Carling said: I know this one. The Louvre in Paris reported it as stolen. Just kidding. An absolutely fantastic job. 22 minutes ago, Eddy Vortex said: I really like this one. It looks like a real painting you'd find in a popular museum. Thank you, both! 🙂 Mitch sort of specializes in the first couple of decades of the 20th century, so he seemed a really ideal subject for an experiment in playing with SL portraiture. My model, sort of, was Augustus John, an early 20th-century Welsh painter. His best known painting is one of Lawrence of Arabia . . . but I have another of his, of the Marchesa Casati hung up in my little SL boathouse home. Anyway, it was fun to do! I am glad you liked it! I want to play around with more styles like this, and maybe venture into the Modernists. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Doc Carling 1,173 Posted March 28 Author Share Posted March 28 1 hour ago, Scylla Rhiadra said: I want to play around with more styles like this, and maybe venture into the Modernists. May I ask what graphic software you are using to achieve this painting-style effect? Link to post Share on other sites
Scylla Rhiadra 29,619 Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 5 minutes ago, Doc Carling said: May I ask what graphic software you are using to achieve this painting-style effect? Oh, I use an older version of Photoshop. My basic approach is to do this in stages -- and there are four distinct versions of this pic lead to the final one. I first of all "cleaned up" the pic, then turned it into a high quality photo. Then I processed it using a combination of tools and filters to get a "painted" look. And then finally I fine-tuned that look, using masks and other tools to produce the final product. So, for instance, if you look at oil painting from the period, there is a tendency for the painting to be "rougher" and less well-defined around the margins of the painting's subject of focus, and finer and better defined at the focus -- it's a way of drawing the viewer's attention in. So I replicated that idea (which is probably reasonably clear from my pic) by using masks and tools like sharpen to reduce the roughness of the painting on the actual figure. It's a long process, but actually a lot of fun. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Doc Carling 1,173 Posted March 30 Author Share Posted March 30 (edited) double post Edited March 30 by Doc Carling Link to post Share on other sites
Doc Carling 1,173 Posted March 30 Author Share Posted March 30 (edited) Edited March 30 by Doc Carling 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Panteleeva 13,291 Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 tired of switching looks, got back to one i liked :P 6 Link to post Share on other sites
Scylla Rhiadra 29,619 Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 More "putting on my face" . . . 7 Link to post Share on other sites
Doc Carling 1,173 Posted April 9 Author Share Posted April 9 Sadness... 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Doc Carling 1,173 Posted April 9 Author Share Posted April 9 On 4/2/2021 at 7:02 PM, Scylla Rhiadra said: More "putting on my face" . . . I'm not quite sure what's the meaning of this one. Link to post Share on other sites
Scylla Rhiadra 29,619 Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 (edited) 19 hours ago, Doc Carling said: I'm not quite sure what's the meaning of this one. "Stay within the lines" (or "colour within the lines," or other variations) is an English idiomatic phrase that refers, literally, to children crayoning in colouring books, but metaphorically to the idea of remaining rule-bound and, by implication, traditional. So, questioning that means questioning "the rules" -- about appearance, makeup, aesthetics, art, gender . . . whatever. Clearly, in this pic, I haven't coloured "within the lines." I'm also playing a bit with the idea of "lines" because there are two projected onto my face, a red one and a black one. Edited April 10 by Scylla Rhiadra 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Doc Carling 1,173 Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 12 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said: "Stay within the lines" (or "colour within the lines," or other variations) is an English idiomatic phrase that refers, literally, to children crayoning in colouring books, but metaphorically to the idea of remaining rule-bound and, by implication, traditional. So, questioning that means questioning "the rules" -- about appearance, makeup, aesthetics, art, gender . . . whatever. Clearly, in this pic, I haven't coloured "within the lines." I'm also playing a bit with the idea of "lines" because there are two projected onto my face, a red one and a black one. I understand now. Well, but aren't you (someone) on the safe side, when you stay within the lines? 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Scylla Rhiadra 29,619 Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 13 minutes ago, Doc Carling said: I understand now. Well, but aren't you (someone) on the safe side, when you stay within the lines? Yep! That's why I used a projector in this pic to "put on my makeup" -- so that it would extend beyond my face and on to the wall behind. That is, it's "outside the lines." (My friend and island-mate @Eva Knoller joked that I looked as though my makeup had been applied by a toddler. And she's not wrong!) Link to post Share on other sites
Doc Carling 1,173 Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said: Yep! That's why I used a projector in this pic to "put on my makeup" -- so that it would extend beyond my face and on to the wall behind. That is, it's "outside the lines." (My friend and island-mate @Eva Knoller joked that I looked as though my makeup had been applied by a toddler. And she's not wrong!) No. Reminds me rather on a mug shot. Sorry. lol Perhaps we should open a thread "Mug shots". Could be funny. My replay was meant in a more philosophical sense. One can live a life questioning the rules or choose the safe side and stay within the lines. Right? Edited April 10 by Doc Carling Link to post Share on other sites
Scylla Rhiadra 29,619 Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 25 minutes ago, Doc Carling said: Reminds me rather on a mug shot. Yeah, it does a bit, now that you mention it. 🙂 25 minutes ago, Doc Carling said: One can live a life questioning the rules or choose the safe side and stay within the lines. Right? Yes. I'm not into breaking rules for the sake of breaking them: rules exist, in theory at least, to help us live together in a mutually respectful way. But questioning them? Yes, always, absolutely. Even the good ones need to be constantly interrogated to ensure that they are still good. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Doc Carling 1,173 Posted April 11 Author Share Posted April 11 (edited) Kittie (Wiccani). A SL lady and Catwalk Diva who likes to model. Oh, and she is an applier fan. Edited April 11 by Doc Carling 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Doc Carling 1,173 Posted April 11 Author Share Posted April 11 (edited) Edited April 11 by Doc Carling 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Nalates Urriah 6,182 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Mugshots... we could take that different ways... but this is the idea I think is meant from way back in my youth... 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Yuumo Ichibara 1,515 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 My old Bellisseria passport photo lol I no longer wear tattoos, but I like that in SL we can look however we wish on our passports and DLs. Happy second anniversary, Bellisserians! 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Doc Carling 1,173 Posted April 13 Author Share Posted April 13 22 hours ago, Nalates Urriah said: Mugshots... we could take that different ways... but this is the idea I think is meant from way back in my youth... That's a cool one. I have also one or two from forumer times somewhere on my hd. Though in those days I had a weaker graphic card and monitor.Could be fun to do some new ones. In a separate thread perhaps, if more people are interested. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
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