>>3445919(cont...)
What I was trying to do with my portrait was recreate a renaissance paintings' value range, muted colors, implied shadow detail, contrapasso, and simple composition. I wanted to do all this as much in-camera as I could, then just cleanup, some d&b sculpting, and color toning in post I've seen photographer's like Desiree Dolron do portraits like this (hers are photo manipulations of multiple womans faces though - attaching example), and I've always found them visually interesting. If I wanted to make this into a painting, I'd just use the portrait as a reference and do a fresh digital painting from scratch in Photoshop. Personally, I like looking at photography and paintings, but not an obvious hybrid of the two. Lots of people love this kind of editing though. Baby studios and old lady glamour shots would LOVE this.
Thanks for the workflow inspiration though, about to try out chunky brush strokes at 10% opacity.
>>3445886I'll give that a try, thanks.
