Taking requests on colorization

[Nolan]

I'm by no means an imgur.com advocate, but it's the best image hosting site out there.

Already did one - atleast if it's John Brown Gordon http://i.imgur.com/IXiEu.png - although this was in the days of me using another program than PhotoShop. I reckon I can take a shot at coloring him in Photoshop if you can find an image that pleases you.

Very good one of Gordon. Here are two of John Brown, not sure which one would be best for you (both are at least 2 MP in size:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/John_Brown_portrait%2C_1859-face_crop.jpg
http://media-1.web.britannica.com/eb-media//63/76563-050-8C0FDFFF.jpg
http://media-1.web.britannica.com/eb-media//63/76563-050-8C0FDFFF.jpg

 

[TerryB]

Hope you enjoy it. Anything else you'd like done?

He's the only ancestor I have in uniform, at least that I know of. Thanks for the good work.

 

[Nathanb1]

Zuzah, thanks for doing two of my favorite guys! (Marcellus definitely looks like someone you wouldn't want to get into a gunfight with NOW.)

 

[Zuzah]

Very good one of Gordon. Here are two of John Brown, not sure which one would be best for you (both are at least 2 MP in size:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/John_Brown_portrait%2C_1859-face_crop.jpg

http://media-1.web.britannica.com/eb-media//63/76563-050-8C0FDFFF.jpg

Haha... that John Brown. The 1859 portrait looks a bit too hard to color due to the natural hue of the image (the brownish tint), so I'll go with the beard-less one. Objections?

He's the only ancestor I have in uniform, at least that I know of. Thanks for the good work.

Always a pleasure man.

Zuzah, thanks for doing two of my favorite guys! (Marcellus definitely looks like someone you wouldn't want to get into a gunfight with NOW.)

Which one was your second favorite? And the same with Kilpatrick. That guy looks like a mean ****er.

 

[Zuzah]

Very good one of Gordon. Here are two of John Brown, not sure which one would be best for you (both are at least 2 MP in size:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/John_Brown_portrait%2C_1859-face_crop.jpg

http://media-1.web.britannica.com/eb-media//63/76563-050-8C0FDFFF.jpg

Just gave him some color as this is my queue to go take a 12 hour nap. Hope you enjoy it man.

Cy@

Edit: looking at him all blown up (size-wise) like that his eyes seem a bit off. let me know if you'd like me to change it to a more 'colder' color or a different one entirely.

 

[Nathanb1]

Haha... that John Brown. The 1859 portrait looks a bit too hard to color due to the natural hue of the image (the brownish tint), so I'll go with the beard-less one. Objections?

Always a pleasure man.

Which one was your second favorite? And the same with Kilpatrick. That guy looks like a mean ****er.

I may be a tad predisposed toward the General. When you have time, could you work on the eye color? They were grey rather than blue.....apparently they could be a very COLD grey when you'd irritated him! From an interview with a newspaper:

"In person he is six feet one inch and a half in height, with broad shoulders, a full chest and symmetrical, muscular limbs, erect in carriage, and weighs 185 pounds; dark gray eyes, dark hair, mustache, and beard worn upon the chin; a set of regular set teeth and clearly cut features," which altogether, makes him rather a handsome man for one forty-seven years of age."

 

[Zuzah]

I may be a tad predisposed toward the General. When you have time, could you work on the eye color? They were grey rather than blue.....apparently they could be a very COLD grey when you'd irritated him! From an interview with a newspaper:

"In person he is six feet one inch and a half in height, with broad shoulders, a full chest and symmetrical, muscular limbs, erect in carriage, and weighs 185 pounds; dark gray eyes, dark hair, mustache, and beard worn upon the chin; a set of regular set teeth and clearly cut features," which altogether, makes him rather a handsome man for one forty-seven years of age."

Little bit confused - which coloring are we talking of here?

 

[Nathanb1]

Little bit confused - which coloring are we talking of here?

Sorry....General Forrest. I just assume everyone knows THAT GUY refers to him

 

[Zuzah]

Most excellent work! Very impressive! Hard to say how dark his hair was, but the eyes look great. He was on Wheeler's staff (cavalry), so maybe the cuff facings wouldn't have been blue. However, the pic was probably taken around 1875 in Dallas, so maybe not even his own uniform.

Could be. Thanks to CivilWarTalk I have a list of colors for peoples cuff colors according to their rank, which is why I chose a blue because - to the best of my knowledge - he was a colonel. I love that dark-blue eye color and I can't help but use it.

Any hair color you'd like to recommend?

 

[diane]

Very nice of Forrest! That's the one I like best too. Just wondering - could you make his hair just a little darker? It was plenty grey but originally almost black. There is one of him before the war where it is very dark brown.

 

[Zuzah]

Very nice of Forrest! That's the one I like best too. Just wondering - could you make his hair just a little darker? It was plenty grey but originally almost black. There is one of him before the war where it is very dark brown.

I'm trying. I'll edit in a minute with an edited version.

Sorry....General Forrest. I just assume everyone knows THAT GUY refers to him

Editing in a second with grayer eyes.

Best I can do. I'll have to do like a whole workover of the image to get a darker color

 

[Nathanb1]

I'm trying. I'll edit in a minute with an edited version.

Editing in a second with grayer eyes.

Aw, gee....thanks....any time would have been fine. Beggars can't be choosers! (We really do appreciate all the work you've done!)

 

[Zuzah]

Aw, gee....thanks....any time would have been fine. Beggars can't be choosers! (We really do appreciate all the work you've done!)

I like helping people. And the way I color anyway, I can change colors like I choose after I color them in, i.e http://i.imgur.com/dYLr6.jpg - however only click that if you wish to see something stupidly bad.

Alright. I was meant to go to sleep 30 minutes ago. Thanks for the kind words, throw me PMs/Replies in this thread and I'll get to them all in the morning. Still working through a PM and some other requests.

 

[TerryB]

Could be. Thanks to CivilWarTalk I have a list of colors for peoples cuff colors according to their rank, which is why I chose a blue because - to the best of my knowledge - he was a colonel. I love that dark-blue eye color and I can't help but use it.

Any hair color you'd like to recommend?

He seems to have been very dark-haired-- his mother was descended from Italian-Swiss Protestants who came to Virginia in 1738. But I'm only guessing about hair color. Really, Northern Italians aren't that dark, so I'd say he's fine.

 

[Nathanb1]

I'm trying. I'll edit in a minute with an edited version.

Editing in a second with grayer eyes.

Best I can do. I'll have to do like a whole workover of the image to get a darker color

I think this is pretty awesome. The uniform looks great, and now the hair simply looks like it's going grey (In a few years, it will be completely white--much like my mom's did--with big streaks getting larger all the time.) And those eyes are cold.....the thing I'm so fascinated by is the apparent difference people saw in him from moment to moment. Wish we had one of him laughing, which apparently just stopped people in their tracks! Then they describe his flashing eyes and teeth in that dark beard! I think you've nailed it really well. Again, I'll let Diane comment....she's the master.

 

[PartywithArty]

Charles Bryson Simonton? Captain of the 9th Tennessee Infantry Co.C

 

[diane]

Forrest did have him a good set of chompers - said to be perfectly formed and very white. He didn't use tobacco or drink coffee much but it was probably all the minerals in the Tennessee water where he grew up! Too bad most of his pictures are from the war - wasn't in a smiling mood then! (That's something to consider, too, when thinking he's ferocious - all of them look like that!)

This is really a nice job. This photo was done after Chickamauga and has always interested me because there is a bullet hole in the left sleeve, neatly mended. He was shot at Tunnel Hill but it's always been unclear where - this picture likely clears that up. The eyes are perfect! I've seen pictures of his parents - he's the spit n image of his pa but he's got his mom's eyes.

 

[Nathanb1]

Charles Bryson Simonton? Captain of the 9th Tennessee Infantry Co.C

Do you have a pic, Jp?

 

[M E Wolf]

Wilber, sir;

You wrote:

Mr. Wolf, what flag are you talking about?

Post #51, where "Kill" Kilpatrick's staff is seated, there is a flag that is stretched out, held by a young man and it is right off the column to the porch.

M. E. Wolf

 

[PartywithArty]

Do you have a pic, Jp?

No,i dont. possibly one online though.its hard for me to find one and post here because i use my iphone.