Oil Painting of My Girlfriend. PSCS5 Mixer Brush and Pixel Bender Way.

[MightyZeus]

This is my seventh attempt at using the mixer brush and for the first time I think that I've finally grasped it's potential and wits. I used the pixel bender plugin for the background and her hair and for her face I painstakingly had to trace every detail of her face. I'd appreciate your criticism on the matter as I stated I'm fairly new to PSCS5, after I found out about this feature I migrated from Corel Paint Pro. X. Feedback please, I want to grow in PSCS5.

[MightyZeus]

By the way I blurred all the edges on her picture as paintings don't have sharp edges.

[Hoogle]

Good job it works well

[MightyZeus]

Thanks Hoogle, but I'd appreciate way's of making it look better or other techniques you pro's would have gone for. I'm really looking for a critique. Any better techniques or suggestions, anyone?

[Vafann]

I can´t give any critique to this, I think it´s GREAT!!

[Vafann]

Now that I´ve looked some more at it, maybe you could ad a bit of the shininess of her lips that the photo had before?

[ibclare]

My take: very nice. I'm impressed. My only suggestion is that you put the same luminosity into her face that you gave the background. Maybe even draw the BG down a bit to keep it more BG -- my eye gets drawn away from her face.. For eg: her eyes have lost the shine they have in the photo and even her hair could use some shimmer. But hey, I've got to try this, it's a beautiful technique.

[MightyZeus]

Thank you all for the comments, I appreciate them, they're all very sound and should make the painting better I'll definitely try them out and post the results on here.

[Hoogle]

this is what I managed after a quick play around

[Hoogle]

but just a bit of advice as a photographer can I just point out all though for the image it looks good but the composistion of the image is wrong yes it is good you have used the rules of 3rds and her posistioning is great but you have a great sunset in the background to the left but the model is lit from the front and to the right so you could create a new layer paint in black over the highlites set the blending mode to colour/overlay or whatever works best then lower the opacity of the layer to give it a neutral look then create a new layer and do the same in white on her left side and show highlites coming through from the other side but that is me being to critical but overall it is a great pic well done