TODAY'S FEATURED POST
10 Things…To Nail A Likeness
A handful of practical issues will improve your portrait work really fast. It comes from paying attention to minute details that many new artists miss. It’s fine training for your brain to understand the necessary shapes, forms, and edges of the human head, measuring and working from a basic structural model, the overall idea being to automate those skills, so that when you work to make a portrait with impact, all those skills will…
YESTERDAY’S POST
A Portrait in 5 Layers
February 18, 2025 - After my post in March on Applying Transparent Color in Photoshop, I received a number of messages, emails and threats asking for more detail on the order of layers I prefer to use. As I mentioned in that post, I often end up working in hundreds of layers so a list of this would read like a phone book of seemingly random Photoshop gibberish. And listen, I need my layers! Partly because I love the look it gives, and partly to see my computer slowly going insane. (It's a cutting edge space age device that can speak every language on the planet, can see people fixing mirrors in low earth orbit and can do math at the quantum level; yet all I have it do is look at videos of cats falling in bathtubs.) Back…
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