it looks looks you have a random saturation or hue parameter set. In this particular piece I think it interferes with outcome. Especially around areas where the colour should not be that intense. The moustache, especially, and, to lesser extent, the shadows around the eyes. Is that intentional?
Generally, I increase the saturation of the originals in this style, to get a wider range amongst the adjacent painted colours. It gives a clumpy, patchwork colour look I like. It's not really meant to be realistic.
The preset (Hatch Buildup) also clumps colours together, and can whack down a big clump of a single vibrant colour when you least expect it. For a while I tried working around this by making the brushes smaller, but that's tedious.
Now I just hand-paint the facial features in one brush size (say 58 x 6 or smaller), and then paint in the background and, say, the coat, in a larger size to diminish their detail (say 116 x 12 or larger). Usually, I would have brushed in the hat in the larger size too, but for some reason skipped that this time.
The image is definitely over-saturated, so you're correct there. And yes, it is intentional. I'm not really looking for a realistic style, more an impressionist-type outcome that's not too fussy. I'd use a completely different preset to achieve a realistic end, and refrain from bumping up the saturation too much.
It's all pretty subjective I know. I like the yellows, blues, greens and magentas in the beard and some of the clumpy bits.
Sometimes I even push this style further, and paint in some areas of an image with a really big brush that completely destroys the detail and just produces colour patterns. I did it with the hands and background in my John Cleese image: https://studioartist.ning.com/photo/john-cleese
That's one's really, really clumpy, but I like it too. There's no real sense to it Tony... :)
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it looks looks you have a random saturation or hue parameter set. In this particular piece I think it interferes with outcome. Especially around areas where the colour should not be that intense. The moustache, especially, and, to lesser extent, the shadows around the eyes. Is that intentional?
Generally, I increase the saturation of the originals in this style, to get a wider range amongst the adjacent painted colours. It gives a clumpy, patchwork colour look I like. It's not really meant to be realistic.
The preset (Hatch Buildup) also clumps colours together, and can whack down a big clump of a single vibrant colour when you least expect it. For a while I tried working around this by making the brushes smaller, but that's tedious.
Now I just hand-paint the facial features in one brush size (say 58 x 6 or smaller), and then paint in the background and, say, the coat, in a larger size to diminish their detail (say 116 x 12 or larger). Usually, I would have brushed in the hat in the larger size too, but for some reason skipped that this time.
The image is definitely over-saturated, so you're correct there. And yes, it is intentional. I'm not really looking for a realistic style, more an impressionist-type outcome that's not too fussy. I'd use a completely different preset to achieve a realistic end, and refrain from bumping up the saturation too much.
It's all pretty subjective I know. I like the yellows, blues, greens and magentas in the beard and some of the clumpy bits.
Sometimes I even push this style further, and paint in some areas of an image with a really big brush that completely destroys the detail and just produces colour patterns. I did it with the hands and background in my John Cleese image: https://studioartist.ning.com/photo/john-cleese
That's one's really, really clumpy, but I like it too. There's no real sense to it Tony... :)
Thanks Ian,
It's funny, that I should be making comments about over saturation, when thats precisely what I do in all my works :)