Older gentleman manipulation-painterly look-Please comment

[ALB68]

This was a download from stock.xchng (http://www.sxc.hu/home) of an elderly gentleman. I used a couple of methods to achieve this. I used Portrait Pro to give the brightness to his eyes. Topaz Clean in Crisp style mode. The rest is blended and brushed in PS with the Mixer Brush. I hope it looks as good here as it does printed. I printed it on my Canon Pixma Pro 100 on Red River Paper's Ultra Satin paper using their profile. It is gorgeous in print. (Paul- I tried not to be brash-LOL) I attempted to maintain the character of the subject.
After:

Before:

 

[iDad]

Looks like something you see in wax museum...... pretty cool

 

[ALB68]

Yeah, it does. I personally like the look though. I am trying to create some interesting looks that are a little different, a style if you will.

Looks like something you see in wax museum...... pretty cool

 

[Tom Mann]

Since there have been some recent threads on turning photos into sketches, maybe some sort of hybrid B&W photo-pencil sketch would be a good direction to explore. It might go well with the craggy nature of the subject.

T

 

[Tom Mann]

...or maybe more like this...

 

[Paul]

Alb you have a style all of your own, loving the softened wax work look.

 

[iDad]

Reminds me of the movie men in Black

 

[Paul]

Great minds lol.
Made his nose bigger /head smaller and neck longer reminds me of someone

 

[Steve]

There's a look that I'm trying to duplicate.
I'm not quite there but old guys or tough looking guys are a great subject for the effect.

 

[Paul]

Dragon effect maybe Steve?

 

[Steve]

I don't know what it's called.
I've mainly seen it on commercials for some of those Discovery Chanel, or TLC, etc. shows.
Rough tough guys, high contrast kind of stuff.

 

[Paul]

HDR and a few curves tweaks.

 

[Paul]

I don't know what it's called.
I've mainly seen it on commercials for some of those Discovery Chanel, or TLC, etc. shows.
Rough tough guys, high contrast kind of stuff.

Oh yeah i know what you mean now, not sure if it is Dragon effect only in video format.
Will do some searching.

 

[Tom Mann]

Hey, guys - it's Dragan, not Dragon, and IMHO, the "before" image ALB posted already looks severely over-processed to me, and this is what is making it difficult for you to further process it to get a Dragan-like effect.

I'll bet you that the original looked closer to this ...

 

[Tom Mann]

...than to this (ie, the "before" image posted by ALB) ...

 

[Paul]

My bad.

 

[ALB68]

ROFLMAO ! Cool. I love humor.

Alb you have a style all of your own, loving the softened wax work look.
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[ALB68]

Tom,
The first one is better. I like B&W and am going to do some soon.

 

[ALB68]

Here is my pencil drawing rendition

 

[Steve]

Hey, guys - it's Dragan, not Dragon,........................

That's it Tom Andrzej Dragan