Over at abduzeedo.com, Kyle Lambert provides both a step-by-step and video tutorial showing the creation of his portrait of Barack Obama. The portrait is created with Photoshop and a Wacom tablet. This example of expressive digital portraiture goes well beyond the application of photoshop filters or the smearing of pixels, and the result shows it.
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London-based artist Brian McLaughin shares with us his unique approach to digital portraits, and provides some information about his background in traditional media, as well as what currently inspires his work. Following his words you will find more of his portraits and a link to his portfolio, where you can enjoy even more of his art.
Joshua Bolduc takes you step by step in drawing a digital portrait using basic photoshop brushes.
Ten images show each stage of the drawing, starting with a linear sketch and ending with the rendered portrait.
“It’s important to stay loose while drawing so go ahead and scribble in shapes, keep an eye on the grid as you do this but don’t be overly concerned about getting it perfect, this will come later. ”
“The process in theory is very simple but it takes a long time. I spent close to 20 hours on this project and there is more I can do with it (such as fix her left eye and thumb).”
The tutorial can be found here.
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When I saw this progression of a digital portrait from start to finish on Heather’s blog, I recognized the mass-in approach many oil painters use. I suspected she had been trained in classical media. As it turns out, she has. It seems to me that digital artists who were first trained in classical media can do good work in any 2 dimensional media.
For this work Heather used a pressure sensitive digital tablet and started with a blank ‘canvas’ — without tracing: “Everything is drawn by eye though, no painting over a photograph or cutting pieces of the photograph to match up the sizes. I think it’s better practice that way.”
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It’s about creativity, life, and art — this short video is deserving all the net buzz it’s generating.
Atlanta based editorial photographer Zach Arias responded to Scott Kirby’s invitation to guest-blog. It starts out whimsically and ends up — well, just see for yourself.
When we think of digital painting, the tool that usually comes to mind is photoshop, or if you’re really into it – Coral Painter.
But the free image editing program known as Gimp also supports brushes in conjunction with pressure sensitive tablets. This Steve Halpin time lapse video, 3 minutes long following a 30 second ad, shows what can be done with Gimp and a skilled hand.
Constantin Potorac, a freelance designer living in Romania, shows us how do draw a portrait in photoshop.
I don’t think he says this, but it would be hard to do this with a mouse. You’ll need a graphics tablet. Of course, if you’re a digital artist you already know this. It’s interesting to see how the portrait develops here.
This demonstration video was just posted on YouTube. “This is Comixo Studio’s first digital drawing demonstration. This a female character in Christmas costume created by artist Ben Wong.”
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Brian’s site has some good examples of what’s retouchingly possible when you know what you’re doing. These before and after versions are seen with a mouseover. So mozy on over and have a look.
A month after we learn the famous Obama Hope poster is headed for the Smithsonian, we find out the Associated Press is alleging copyright infringement of the photograph on which the poster is derived.
Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the poster, admits the use of the photograph, but claims it falls under “fair use” guidelines. The outcome of this may have important implications for photographers and artists – It’s worth keeping an eye on.
PhotographyBlog.com has published a review of Imagenomic’s Portraiture 2, a photoshop plugin. The plugin is designed to clean blemishes, smooth skin tones, remove imperfections and ease other portrait enhancements. Says the reviewer “….Portraiture 2 is a sanity saver I would not want to be without”. If you think it may be worth the $200 bucks, I would take advantage of the 15 day trial to help you decide. Read the review here.
Digital Photography School today posted a short tutorial explaining how to create a Lichtenstein inspired pop art portrait from your child’s photograph using photoshop. The post was written by Shalet Abraham from mybabyphotos.net. You can find the tutorial here.
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