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.
Here’s the final portrait:

I’ve included the video below for your convenience. You can find the complete step-by-step writeup here, and more of Kyle’s work on his portfolio site.
Digital Painting step by step | President Obama from Paulo Canabarro on Vimeo.





July 28th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Good one. This is really nicely done.
August 4th, 2009 at 4:48 am
This is great. It is this kind of work that makes me want to give digital painting a go. Some of the paintings on Kyle Lamberts website are outstanding.
Keep them coming!
September 1st, 2009 at 10:29 am
we love obama!!!!!
December 15th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Hi, excellent work.