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caddymanWell I guess that got your attention.
I have been wondering whether or not to post this up since![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
boroshan scanned it for me. Not that it's particularly rude or anything, but because I couldn't make up my mind whether it was worth the effort.
The original was on A4 size paper, and is a mixture of pencil, crayon, water colour and gouache. I have never mastered the less is more school of water colour painting and feel cheated if the paint isn't thick enough in places to cast shadows. Unfortunately this has a knock on effect when scanning, as does the rippled effect once-wet paper has. Add to that the fact that the average scanner blows a picture up to as large as it can get away with and every imperfection you never noticed is suddenly highlighted in all its multi-hued glory.
Anyway, the result is that I have tinkered with the scan using Paint Shop Pro, softening here, highlighting there, and blending a bit all over. The work has been done on the flesh tones - I have left the stockings and background as scanned. I just felt the poor dear could do without the cellulite and pimples the scanner had given her (trust me when I say that this is not apparent on the original). I haven't altered the picture in any other way (except a little colour correction), so the mightily powerful upper arm is as painted originally. The effect is exaggerated by the pose, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
I no longer remember precisely where I took the picture from, but looking at the pose and the date, I would put good money on the inspiration coming from the same place it does for many a 25 year old bachelor. Ahem.
Oddly enough, when I was dithering over whether or not to include the picture on this journal, it was three of my female readers who suggested I should. You only have yourselves to blame, ladies.
I have been wondering whether or not to post this up since
boroshan scanned it for me. Not that it's particularly rude or anything, but because I couldn't make up my mind whether it was worth the effort.The original was on A4 size paper, and is a mixture of pencil, crayon, water colour and gouache. I have never mastered the less is more school of water colour painting and feel cheated if the paint isn't thick enough in places to cast shadows. Unfortunately this has a knock on effect when scanning, as does the rippled effect once-wet paper has. Add to that the fact that the average scanner blows a picture up to as large as it can get away with and every imperfection you never noticed is suddenly highlighted in all its multi-hued glory.
Anyway, the result is that I have tinkered with the scan using Paint Shop Pro, softening here, highlighting there, and blending a bit all over. The work has been done on the flesh tones - I have left the stockings and background as scanned. I just felt the poor dear could do without the cellulite and pimples the scanner had given her (trust me when I say that this is not apparent on the original). I haven't altered the picture in any other way (except a little colour correction), so the mightily powerful upper arm is as painted originally. The effect is exaggerated by the pose, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
I no longer remember precisely where I took the picture from, but looking at the pose and the date, I would put good money on the inspiration coming from the same place it does for many a 25 year old bachelor. Ahem.
Oddly enough, when I was dithering over whether or not to include the picture on this journal, it was three of my female readers who suggested I should. You only have yourselves to blame, ladies.