For this week's session we were asked to draw several portraits of people and bring in a few photos of people whether it be friends, family, or someone we know and create a digital painting of them using illustrator. For this I started off by manipulating this drawing from one of my scans, firstly changing the levels of the photograph in photoshop so that the image was only black and white as you can see below.
Once I had done this I then began to manipulate the line drawing itself in illustrator by changing the different colours creating a minimalistic effect to my work.
I then began to create a digital painting adding layers of colour to the original linework, experimenting with different tones which i found worked very well ontop of the linework as we can see in the screenshots of my process below.
Once i had finished this process I then added the finishing touches of a background to complete my final image.
Overall I was very happy with this outcome as I found it interesting experimenting with the graphics tablet and which shadings to use for separate parts of both the skin tones and the hair colour, I do think however that i could have blended the tones a lot more on the forehead of the portrait.
Looking into the next portrait I did this time using a photograph, here we can see the original photograph as well as the stages of making it a black and white template for my digital painting.
(original photograph)
As a contrast to my earlier digital painting using my line drawing I wanted to create a simplistic yet colourful effect on the skin tone, so I decided to use mild pink tones to recreate the face which considering the final background colour matching the previous portrait background. This worked well as the colours used in the face of this portrait compliment the background colour as we can see in my final image below.
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