Here is another side of Venus. This was actually the first one I did. Again, the drawing is pretty easy to do. Horns, bridge of nose, nose/mouth, ear (ripped in this case - long story), neck color change.

With the an opacity of 75%, you can see how adding a darker background shows through the lighter ears. In this step, I also cleaned up the horn a bit.

The final step involved duplicating the image, and adjusting both the levels and the opacity to create a velvet effect. Click on this picture to bring up a larger, more detailed image. Hard to believe it is a drawing.

Again, with a buck profile, it is not too difficult. You do add the Goatee, and normally you will see a thicker face.

Since I have done this three times now, I am getting better with the detail on the water color (I went with a "more is more" thing here). This uses a bunch of colors (all sampled from Enhancer's picture). By using a lot of different colors, each with different opacities and flow rates, you can cover up mistakes and blend the colors together (the undo button and history feature work pretty good, too).

Then, I duplicated the layer, added some noise, added some detail to the shadow on Enhancer's neck, and put in a light background color.

With another duplication, varying levels of opacity etc., and a darker background color, you get this effect that is hard to believe is the same drawing. I also toned down the "cartoon" lines in the final version. Click on the picture to see it larger.

Oblique angles are a little harder. Sometimes you end up with things that don't appear to belong. When Enhancer looks at me at this angle, normally you can see his other ear hanging down. In a drawing, it looks out of place (just like the second horn, which I eliminated in each of the pictures). You also end up with more shadows, and the front of the nose normally doesn't look right. In the shell, I think I was able to get all of the things I needed.

If you are following along, you know this is my fourth one, and I am getting better. Again, I am using more colors, but I am getting better at blending them (and I know what the end result is going to look like, so I know where I have to be detailed, and where the layers will "cover" my mistakes or lack of detail. I tried to get more detail on the horns on this one in the initial stages (instead of waiting until the end).

Again, after adding noise, some of the colors blend together a little better. Some of the colors still stand out too much at this stage in this particular one. I might have done a better job at blending colors, or maybe some of the colors I tried to match were not exactly correct.

But in the final picture, it seems to come through. Working with layers and opacities, I got the effect I desired. Click on the image to see a full detail picture.

This was my favorite and I have used it a number of times.

This completes the morph (if you have a fast internet connection -- or don't mind the wait -- click on the animated gif above (or here) to see a larger version of that morph.