The image at the top looks like illustrator-ed calegraphic stroke vector lines that have been imported into Photoshop and there they have been duplicated and have had a glaussian blur added to them and coloured with the hue saturation/color balance tools. then they have brused the whole thing with a white scattered softbrush of different propotions they have later colored via blendingmodes and/or background gradients and/or the HueSat/ColorBlanace tools. And tweeked overall glowes and ofc cutout the soccer player and added a background somewhat matching shadows and glowcolours. Looks like realy time consuming work that requires proffesionalism to look decent in larger foramts to me. I dont have any tutorials on this though.
As for the lower one thats just simply all the way with a tablet and brushes.
Oh and i beleve soon a post with welcome to P2L enjoy your stay with us and read the forum rules will emerge from the abbyss of moderators.
Edited by Dance, 31 August 2006 - 05:30 PM.