Fig. 9 After one hour and a half, it is time to think everything over once more. If something is wrong at that stage or if I cannot find a suitable reference, I may discard everything and start anew …Luckily, this did not happen here. With a pattern for the golden section/golden spiral, which I place over the artwork as a new layer, I may now control whether the arrangement of the composing also comes up to the mathematic and aesthetic composition rules. After some minor changes I may start working. Finally. I start with some texture for the skin. It ought to appear slightly coarse, as if it had been treated with desert sand, something extraordinary for the face that includes expression and dignity.
Fig. 10 Thanks to the Poser rendering settings for the single colored background it was quite simple to knock out the figure. Now I drag the texture into the picture and enlarge it with “edit-> free transform” until the figure is covered. Then I drag the texture layer behind the figure and return to the figure layer (which is still connected to the background at that moment). With the magic wand I then choose the gray background and fr0m the menu “select-> inverse” the figure which I cut and integrate into the image with “edit-> insert:”Clicking the same layer again with the magic wand selects the outline of the figure once more. Now I switch to the texture layer I had selected before (a simple photograph of a wall) and cut the background so only a silhouette of the figure remains. After that, this layer i s placed on top of the figure and treated with the layer effect “overlay” to obtain the result shown in Fig. 10.
Fig. 11 I have made this edited photograph of a friend some time ago. It is ideal to show the mood of the lighting situation and the desired facial expression. I cut the part out with the polygon lasso and insert it mirrored with the command”edit -> transform -> flip horizontal:”Of course, some corrections must be made to make the perspective appear more or less correct. I removed the piercing with the clone stamp and bent the nose slightly into the opposite direction with the liquifier … For the shadow of the facial mask I have copied the layer, placed it under the other layer and turned down the brightness with the control command “image -> adjustments -> hue/saturation”: With the blur (Fig. 11) I created a soft edge afterwards.
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