Tonight I’m posting a rare revisit to one of my manipulations of Alan Greenspan or anyone for that matter. I thought this caricature study had potential but the version I did a while back didn’t go as I expected. The original source image which is posted below was washed out with little detail and I didn’t really know what to do with it or how to deal with those issues at the time so I put him on a gradient background which was a banding nightmare. It made me sick every time I looked at it so I decided to rework it just a bit and put him in a new setting. He makes a great subject and I felt it would be a shamed to toss it out, so here is Alan Greenspan IIIV.

I just finished a movie DVD jewel case design for New Coast Productions so I will probably post that tomorrow. I also finally finished the collaboration piece I did with Jesse Smith of Loose screw Tattoo and delivered it to him today as a gift. It wasn’t enough change to bother posting again. It was mainly fine details getting it print ready. I have another little fun project going on the side that I’ll post in a day or two.

I’m working on a deal with an art magazine who wants me to do a webinar on my work. I’ve turned two of these down already but I think I’m going to accept this one, so all of you who have been hounding me about doing a tutorial and showing my methods, this is for you. There’s a lot involved and there’s the scheduling issue so it won’t be until next year but I’m headed in that direction. It’s been a very long but productive day, so I’m calling it a night guys. Until tomorrow!

Alan Greenspan for the third time. He just has great features for a caricature. I took it pretty east on him this time. Any Photoshop whizzes out there? How can you eliminate or reduce banding when applying a  gradient? Seems to be worse when you use it as an overlay. And you better have the levels correct when the gradient is applied, because when you adjust levels or saturation after the gradient is applied, the banding gets much worse. I haven’t been able to figure it out yet. I tried every trick I know and I still ended up with banding on this one. Oh well, live and learn.

I hope you enjoyed. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!