ref: http://www.freeimages.com/photo/fuuy-man-1430826

Just felt like going nutty and it helps to start off with a picture of a nut. lol



https://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@ ... 2/sizes/o/

who's the nut ?
Looks similar to one of your other binges

He is, Sallyanne. I like using same images for different renders so folks know I'm not taking someone else's madness and passing it as my own. lol

Gives a whole new meaning to string theory! You know I want to ask how you do that!

Different blendings of Stencil followed by Gradient Norm, Pat. Then, on top layer, ran Isophots (outline on transparent option). Applied a convolution step to make the facial imprint stronger and did a few other things as well, but the afore steps would get you close enough. As for a tut; forget it (and I'll PM you as to why).

I worked a lot on this Lyle, but I can't get the string to look like yours. Anyway, here goes:

Nothing ever looks like Lyles. Good try at it though.

Don't forget the color to alpha step (black to alpha) and then do the blending. I did forget to add that I texturized the lines a bit too.

OK. I'll try again. How do you texturize lines?