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Injury Update #2

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#10

LOVE the jeans!! :+1:

#11

By the way let me just say I absolutely love the way you incorporate real life photo backgrounds into your work! :sunglasses: :sunglasses: :+1:

#12

Love the skin, hair… clothes…oh hell. It’s over all fantastic. So much talent on this forum it’s down right scary.

#13

Gasp! A broken nail! My heart goes out to her! Fabulous work you do :slight_smile:

#14

wow, Ken…those eyes, the freckled skin, the hair…the lighting…you make it all work for you …outfrigginstanding :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: Reminds me of Cissy Spacek…ie Carrie…great job

#15

Beautifully done! So believable right down to the make-up. She really looks like she’s fighting back tears…wonderful effect.
I also love the way that you did the clothing and her hair. Superb! :grimacing: :+1:

#16

The amazing detail, minutia of expression on a character, and depth of reality in your scenes is incredible Ken! :slight_smile:

#17

incredible. the lady at my favorite bookshop as a young girl. i’ll have to ask her next time if her daughters name is Rebecca :smiley: praise & kudos, Ken!!!

  • juandel
#18

She’ll be happy to know that you all like her (you know how important being liked is to young people)

standux444: I used to live in EB NJ, but haven’t for over a decade.

Ron, I was thinking of a Sissy S kind of complextion when working on this.

#19

This is such a good piece! The hair and complexion is fantastic, but I keep staring at the eyebrows… I think I could just touch them they seem so real. All of it seems real and I swear I have seen this girl some place… LOL

#20

I missed this beauty Ken, fantastic image. I agree with Mentat, the way you use the background photos add a special realism to your work that no one else has managed to capture.

Can I ask how you did the hair on this piece? It looks photorealistic in the close up. I love the effect.

Cheers,

Glen

#21

A very good work!!! :+1: :+1: :+1:

#22

Ahhh, love this Ken! :+1:
Her posture tells a story. You can see her underlining anatomical structure and it looks like she could really breath!

Where do you get your inspirations from??

I really like the transitions between material & skin. I’d like to know how you did the jeans, but I know you’ll make it sound easy, and that’ll baffle me! Is it similar to the Warrior Class thread I put into the modeling comp??
Cool :+1:
Upham :slight_smile:

PS. What did Rebecca think of the “Ten Things” movie after all that???

#23

Ken that is fricking amazing!!!

#24

:grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing:
Absolutely fantastic and brilliant,Ken
:+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1:

stargo

#25

The hair was a plane 3D object, duplicated once and formed to either side of her head. The plane had a hand-painted, tiled hair image which gave it most of the color. And since it was applied to the 3D object, it conformed nicely to the modifications.

To soften the straight edges, little bits were erased from the separate hair layer. Finally, loose strands were painted on indivdually.

The jeans were done much like the warrior class image, but this time with much more 2.5D and color work later, where as the previous mentioned image had very little of that.

A sweep profile shape was made with an inner thickness and formed around her waist. While the object was still in edit mode, a demin image was applied. This was from a photo image, but still needed to be made to tile. (In photoshop, go to filters/ offset/ and set a number to approx half the height and width of the image. Then you will see the areas that need to be cloned over to match)

As you can see in this early stage, the jeans were very simple shapes.

I’m just inspired by people in general that I see. There isn’t usually one specific person that sparks an idea for an image, rather they are a combination of many people. And even if I form a specific image of a person, it rarely turns out as I imagine. After a certain point in the process, I try to “let go” of my concept, and let the character emerge on its own. When I fight this and try to keep imposing my will over the face, then it doesn’t usually work out as well.

For a good part of the process, I may be frustrated or unsure, but then, magically, something clicks and I see the new character. That’s when it gets exciting. When I can look at these “people” and feel like I had very little to do with their creation, is when I’m satisfied.

(she loved “10 things”, and Heath Ledger is just SO CUTE!)

#26

Thank you so much for the insight! I concur with your observations about the subject taking on a life of it’s own. I find that my best work happens when I “let go” as you say. Well said!

#27

i agree :slight_smile:

#28

great stuff ken

#29

ken that was a great write up about this image. you are truly talented. thank you