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I knew I could create some great hair in Metabrush for this laughing girl. The image is enhanced by the use of strong, complementary colors. I added texture to hold the separate elements together.
I started with this photo from the Sktchy app. I love the laughing expression on her face, and the way her hair is all splayed out. I knew I could create some great hair for her in Metabrush.
In iColorama, I used Form/Warp to enlarge her head.
I wanted to use eyes from another image. Using Effect/Blend, I blended an image of a doll over the girl. To position the doll's eyes over the girl's eyes, I reduced opacity to 50%, and used my fingers to position and resize the top image. I used the Rotate slider to rotate the top image a bit, then put opacity back to 100% and painted in the eyes from doll, using an inverted brush mask.
For the eyes, I used this photo from Pixabay, a source of copyright-free images.
In the Metabrush app, I painted all over the girl in Plane mode, for a painted look.
In Metabrush, on a new layer, I painted this hair. By turning off all other layers, I could save just the layer I painted the hair on. I used Paint mode. I used Gradient 17 brush, which is a hollow, round brush (hard on the outside, soft on the inside), which is a great brush for making hair in Metabrush.
This is the image I used for the brush source for painting the hair. It's a photo of mine that I smoothed in iColorama. In Metabrush, select the brush source using the daisy button on the upper left edge of the screen.
My Metabrush brush settings, panel 1.
My Metabrush brush settings, panel 2.
My Metabrush brush settings, panel 3.
My Metabrush brush settings, panel 4.
Now, I opened the image in iColorama. Using Effect/Blend, I blended the hair on top of the Metabrushed girl, using my fingers to move it and resize it for the best result, before applying.
In Texture/Vintage, I applied a texture to the image. I chose a texture with color consistent with the image, and used low opacity.
I applied a second vintage texture in Texture/Vintage. This time I applied the texture to just the hair and background, using a brush mask to protect the figure.
In Texture/Vintage, I applied a texture to the dress, using an inverted brush mask. I selected a texture with color complementary to the red/orange that was dominant in the image. The green of the dress also pulls out the spots of green in the hair.
I enhanced the color of the hair and background in Tone/Enhance, using a brush mask to protect the face and body. I smoothed a few rough areas using Style/Coherence and an inverted brush mask. I applied a small touch of Effect/Raise preset 2 for emphasis.
In Brush/Paint,I used a soft round brush to paint in catchlights in the eyes, then I used Style/Flow and an inverted brush mask to soften the catchlights. Then with the brush mask still in place, I applied a bit of Effect/Raise preset 2 to the catchlights. I created a border by flipping the image upside down in Form/Mirror, then applying Effect/Scrape. I applied, then in Effect/Blend I blended the unscraped image onto the scraped image, making it just a bit smaller to reveal the scraped image around the edges. Then I applied Preset/Border preset 1 at low opacity to darken the border. Then I applied Preset/Border preset 8 at low opacity to give a bit of whiteness near the borders.
I modified the eyes using the Elasticam app, to enlarge them and give them a more laughing appearance.
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