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In this tutorial, we’ll cover some important tips, techniques, and professional workflow to simplify your efforts while creating photorealistic portraits. Assuming that you are familiar with the basic use of the Mesh Tool, we’ll dive right into more advanced mesh techniques!
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intense amount of work!- but after vectoring from a pixel based reference, it kinda gets to a point where it’s so blurry you might as well work in raster right?
Agreed – but I think this is just to give you the workflow incase there is a project you need to do similar work on
great tutorials
good luck
Whoa, that portrait is really cool…the stray hairs are looking a little like they don’t belong–everything else is smooth while the hair is sharp..
what about his facial hair? It vanished!
he shaved his facial hair off while they were vectoring his face.
this really looks professional ;DD
I can’t bielive That some poeple are going to pay to have things you can get for free!
Thanks for the free past time
nice duplication of image as far as making it look like the photo but i thought the point was to improve upon an image to make it an illustration. it’s so soft in the details that it looks like a gaussian blur or surface blur, one of the steps should be final refinement of edges and contrast. also, hair highlights seem a little too harsh.
(good technique)
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i want to learn this, is this going to be avalaible for normal members?
Unfortunately Niek, it’s only for Plus Members.
good one saurabh,
some part of the hair look little odd, though
This is a Detailed and Professional Tutorial,,,,,
Really nice mesh…
oops
but
where’s the beard and moustache
@hobyt
Thanks for the appreciation. This tutorial is aimed at describing the workflow for creating such portraits, which may help you in similar projects.
Objects like hairs, mustache, beard and eyebrows can be made photorealistic with the same wireframe mesh technique as described in this tutorial. I did’nt repeated this technique for beard, mustache and hairs in this tutorial; as the purpose of showing the technique is solved in the formation of face, lips and eyes.
You may give it a try for hairs. Just be sure that too much of manual swooshes for hairs can make the photo unreal, as in the final image.
Thanks everyone
great work awesome
I should apply
Amazing work bro.
thank u