Portraits from Photographs

[Ron Duke]

James,
EXCELLENT times 3! As in your earlier drawings you've captured the little nuances that reflect personality and feeling in the expressions. They seem alive. You have a real skill in this type of drawing.
ron

[Logo Kid]

Thanks for all the kind words ... but to be honest these are really not too hard to achieve with a large amount of patience and if you put a photo on the right or left and create your sections over the top of it and then nudge them over to the other side where you build your final image creating layers for each part.

It just takes practice and patience - 15-20 hours a picture at the moment and each one gets better.

Any way for all you people in the dark here are some more info about two musician ...

Robert Wyatt

Can

And Ankhor I don't know how many styles and bands there are but I do have diverse tastes yeah. I have my own genre system on my music hard drive and here's all the types of music that I like :-

1989 - 1992 MF
50's
60's UK
60's US
70's Disco
70's New York
70's Rock Metal
70's UK
80's
80's Alternative
Blues
Cheese Rock
Childrens
Chillout
Classical
Classical Synth
Country
Crooner
Dadcore
Dancehall
Disco Electronica
Drum And Bass
Dub
Electro Berlin
Experimental
Female Singers
Folk
Folk Nu
Friendcore
Funk Soul Jazz
Garage Rock
Grunge
Hip Hop Alternative
Hip Hop UK
Hip Hop US
Hip Hop Wu Dynasty
Indie Brazil
Indie Oz
Indie UK
Indie US
Industrial
Jazz
Jokey
Lounge
Metal
Mo'wax'ish
Motown Stax Soul
Noisecore 3000
Punk UK
Punk US
R 'n' B
Reggae Rocksteady
Singer Songwriter
Sixthformcore
Ska
Skatecore
Slowcore
Sound Samples
Soundtracks
Spoken Word Biography
Spoken Word Books
Spoken Word Comedy
Spoken Word Learning
Spoken Word Philosophy
Spoken Word Poetry And Prose
Spoken Word Political
Spoken Word Religion
Spoken Word Sex
Spoken Word Surreal
Spoken Word With Music
Surf
Swing
Techno
Theatrical
Triphop
Tweecore
Warpcore
World African
World Asian
World French
World Hawaii
World Ireland
World Jew
World Oriental
World Spanish
Xmas

To my it pays to like lots of different bands and different styles - that way you can totally fit your exact mood ... like having lots of fonts to pic from

[ankhor]

Thanks for all the kind words ... but to be honest these are really not too hard to achieve with a large amount of patience and if you put a photo on the right or left and create your sections over the top of it and then nudge them over to the other side where you build your final image creating layers for each part.

It just takes practice and patience - 15-20 hours a picture at the moment and each one gets better.

And Ankhor I don't know how many styles and bands there are but I do have diverse tastes yeah. I have my own genre system on my music hard drive and here's all the types of music that I like :-


Ska


To my it pays to like lots of different bands and different styles - that way you can totally fit your exact mood ... like having lots of fonts to pic from

Hmm I lifted out the important one, so you must be okay in my book

And easy or not, the result counts, we now discover that great
artist of yesteryears, or yestercenturies even, also used camera obscura`s
to paint their paintings, well some of them.
The results are still great, and that is what counts.

And rethorical questions don`t need to be answered
But still nice you did .

[Craig1128]

I appreciate the posts here as I enjoy photography and portraits... one of these days I'd like to learn how to change a portrait into a drawing like these. (I toy around with plugins now getting the drawing effect, which is nice, but not the same...) Great job!

[Albacore]

Sorry I have not been able to post some more examples but I had deadlines to meet, why does work not come steadly? it always comes in batches with most work wanted by the end of the month. Here is another example from photograph of a young child. The first example took 1 1/4 hours to complete with the second just minutes behind as I used LittleInkPot's plugin. What I am trying to do here is get a quick way of doing photos into vectors printing at work and selling them onto to the clients and making a profit. The clients I have found locally will only pay about £40 for the print and frame so time is the main factor.

After uploading and viewing the 2 drawing the sketcher effect can't really be seen so if I have a litle more time tonight I will try and upload a zoomed example.

[Ron Duke]

Logo Kid and Albacore,
For me, people are the most difficult to draw, even using the technique you described James. It takes a really good eye to capture just the right angle or curve, say around the eyes, to get just the right result. I use the same technique for drawing cars, but drawing people is much more difficult for me. Great work you guys.
ron

[-=Drifter=-]

Yes Albacore, my hat is off to you. I can't draw faces...... but you obviously can. Great job!

[Know1]

I can't find the original xar file for this one, must have a name like test3e or something... but this is the one I posted in the december stop and post.

[parahandy]

Thought I would join the thread with this self portrait come photograph trace
never again took me hours ,well! about 3 hours and my wife says it's nothing like me. I am much more handsome in real life. (what's that about self praise ?) ha ha ha . signed copies available hee hee

[-=Drifter=-]

I think that both Know1 and Parahandy's drawings are excellent!!!