Wild Beast of Prey: Creating a Watercolor of a Wolf
The author of the tutorial is Alexey Pasko. The example is created in Adobe Photoshop CS.
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The description is given by the author himself.
I wanted to know how the AKVIS Sketch plug-in would handle fur, that is why I chose a photo of a wolf.
- Step 1. I blurred the copy of the original layer with Gaussian Blur filter at Radius = 1 pixel.
Then I applied AKVIS Sketch with the following settings:
Watercolor = 0, Charcoal = 0, Coloration = 0, Angle = 45, Stroke Thickness = 9, Minimum/Maximum Length = 3/10, Midtones Intensity = 3, Midtones Hatching = 100.
If I hadn't blurred the wolf before applying AKVIS Sketch, it would have looked like a hedgehog.
- Step 2. Then I copied the original layer again and blurred it at radius 0.7 px. Then I applied AKVIS Sketch plug-in with default settings. This time I got sharper strokes.
- Step 3. Then I used Clone Stamp to clone some parts from the image I got in Step 2 into the image I got in Step1. In the process I used a 10-30 px soft brush with transparency ranging from 90 to 100%.
- Step 4. I added a Curves Adjustment layer to the very top of the Layers palette to lighten the image and slightly increase the contrast.
- Step 5. Using Sharpen tool with Strength=20% I increased sharpness in certain areas of the image (eyes, nose etc.).
- Step 6. Then I changed the blend mode of this layer onto the original layer from Normal to Overlay.
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This example is rather simple but there is an infinite number of variants. I liked this one - it reminds me of watercolor.
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 "Watercolor of a wolf")
— Wild Beast of Prey: Watercolor