Grayscale to color

[Flo]

Hey guys,

thanks for keeping helping me. It is always great to see someone wrote a comment or gave a crit.

I changed her pose to get a more fluid "cross" as MannUp puts it. Is that something you made up or learned somewhere? it seems like a quite helpful concept to follow.

I applied some adjustment layers (saturation/brightness, contrast) and smart filters (smart blur) to make the face, shoulders and hand pop more. also i tried to get a better feeling of spacing and overlapping in it by make the forms that are overlapped blurry at the cross sections. Mr Gurney can explain it better than me: Color and Light p. 140 ff. ^^

@monkey: I personally like the applibot stuff, but that is just a matter of taste. but I also like monet and the impressionists. with this piece i learned a lot already and I definitely want to look more into acrylics and oil.

In the next step I will go over it and blur some parts up more. but for now I cant keep working because my scratch-disks are full. that sucks. I have to clean up my pc ^^

cheers,
flo