Topic awaiting preservation: Ahhh, the beauty of a rose... @#&*! I need a rose tutorial, please.

My roses are coming out... like crap.

I did some way back when, but they disappeared in the hard drive crash of 2002... oh it was a bad day indeed, the script, the words, the art, all lost in the tinkering of a weekend without back-up. I just knew I could get w98se to act like w2k if I just tweaked ever so slightly more... until, it happened.

Well, seeing as I used the Paint can speckled and irfanviewed filterized heady constructionist tools back then I thought pfft! No problem I can make one anytime I want in Photoshop. it's just a matter of... DOH!

So, I humbly stand in awe of the creative talents of the Asylun guru's and wonder aloud if anyone has a handy dandy Rose Tutorial?

Please?

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Webbing; the stuff that sticks to your face.

Any WIPs you can put up would help.

Other than that, the only way I know of would be to create layers for the petals and go at it with the brushes. Keep building it up and you should get something halfway decent that you can use as a springboard.

Google->Roses

There's a good starting point.

http://www.think-designs.com/tutorials.php?subaction=showfull&id=1084309258&archive=&start_from=&ucat=3&

http://www.brusberg.net/1/tutorials/rose/rose.htm

That is the best i could do...

Thanks guys...

I wish I was able to capture the nuances of the petals and create the whole thing from scratch but these two tutes give me an idea on where to start...

Anyone have samples of roses they've drawn in photoshop?

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Is This Thing On?

Webbing; the stuff that sticks to your face.

Cool...

That's a very good rose...
Got a tutorial on that one DG?

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Webbing; the stuff that sticks to your face.

It's a painted image - so, go look for painting techniques.

As always, Nax has it...and noone got stabbed...I'm stunned.

The tutorial is simple really:

1) Look at roses.

2) Look at light.

3) Look at more roses.

4) Find a rose to look at in some light.

5) Repeat and paint.

As for the textures, etc. Use some imagination and hard brushes. Outline the whole thing, rough out the shape, then touch it up...change..touch it up...change...touch it up, move on to shadows...then highlights.

That's really as simple as it gets...texture and shape are just a function of light and dark...little bits here and there. Flat colour, now darken the shadows...darken more in small er areas...lighten the highlights, now lighten more in smaller, brighter areas.

VOILA!

Now show me something...because that link to google was brilliant.

Peter

Ack! my ineptitude is mind boggling... I am going back filters and text. I have no clue how to work with light and shadow... It's like kindergarten all over again.

*stomps feet and throws clay at the more talented kids... then searches for a big dump truck to knock over the other kids blocks*



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Webbing; the stuff that sticks to your face.

~has just glued his blocks together~

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Anyone have samples of roses they've drawn in photoshop?

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from an old speed painting thread -
(drawn by hand, painted in PS)

http://in-dented.com/asylum.php?sec=sp2&p=rose3

Goodness this *is* old.... I think I painted from a photo on that one.

"wallows in self pity wondering why the kids with clay in their hair are ssso angry, snickers at the kid with glue and gets a baseball bat*

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Webbing; the stuff that sticks to your face.

awful purty there izz =)

Get rid of that solid background. As a whole your background is just as important as the foreground, so make sure the same lighting is applied. Never EVER work on a solid background - you'll be surprised at how much it will throw you off.



(Edited by synax on 01-10-2005 03:47)

*sneeks over to other roses and starts pulling the petals off*
*scrawls MasterSuho was here on wall*
*skips away Singing "theyre not gonna catch me, theyre not gonna catch me, na na nanna na na"*

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Is This Thing On?

Webbing; the stuff that sticks to your face.

(Edited by UnknownComic on 01-11-2005 07:28)