EXPERIMENT ONE - LINE ART
My first experiment in facial averaging, as it took place about a year ago.
(IMG above: Further down the road in my experimentation)
About a year ago, I began an experiment to create an ideal face. I am still in the process of this goal, but have had a lot of fun and made interesting discoveries along the way.
THE GOAL - I am an artist who likes to portray beauty. I hoped to gain a greater understanding of my personal aesthetic, and create a helpful guide for myself in creating ‘beautiful’ characters. (Or at least ones that appear beautiful to my taste.)
The beginning-
I have a folder on my computer of thousands of beautiful pictures. When I began this experiment, I looked for frontal pictures of my favorite models, and resized and cropped them so they would match up well. Here is a screenshot of a small handful of them.
I went over each picture, and traced the major features and outline of the head with a red brush, labeling it with the model’s name.
This was the result of turning them all on at once. Eh… not so good.
I resized, rotated, moved and flipped outlines to match them up better…. Getting there.
I made the line work thinner using masks, and lowered the opacity of each face, making it much clearer.
Here they are overlaid over one another, my first averaged face!
another shot- median filter to clarify.
Watch out for experiment two shortly!
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