Portraits

Some of these were made as personal projects but others were made with a view to selling portraits for people in those styles.
I never sold any but there was some interesting work and they were worth doing in a way.

This is portrait of my friend Paul based on a style called WPAP (Wedha’s Pop Art Portrait). It involved a lot of manual work in Illustrator. (2014)
This was just an interesting use of a silhouette. (2012)
My family in the style of “The Best of Blur” 2000 album artwork by artist Julian Opie. (2014)
A portrait style of my brother that I don’t think worked very well. (2014)
Another portrait in the WPAP style. This is my brother. (2014)
An experimental portrait of my brother. It was part of a bunch of portraits here that were meant as potential styles to sell on my old website. (2012)
A word-based portrait of my dad. I don’t think this worked very well. (2014)
This was done using some sort of plugin for an old version of Illustrator. After some faffy set up, the more you clicked on an area, the fine the detail would become. I’m not even sure I could recreate this now. (2014)
This circle based portrait of my friend Monique took a long time to do and involved learning some aspects of software called “Rhino”. The creation involved mathematical circle packing. I had to recreate the photo, making the detailed areas like eyes, darker, and less detailed areas like the cheeks lighter. This was all complicated and also required a whole lot of manual work in Illustrator after the main structure of it had been created. There’s no way I could even remember how to do this again. It’s a bit of a shame, because the effect and style are really quite good. (2010)
This was just some sort of experiment on a photo of my colleague Lisa, that didn’t improve on the original photo. (2014)
I think I used the photo editing software called “GIMP” for this because it had more filters than photoshop. This was a photo of my brother’s girlfriend made into a watercolour effect. (2014)
Another portrait of an ex-colleague, Jane, with her daughter using an old illustrator plugin. (2014)
This portrait of me was difficult and still not quite right. It’s in the style of an Ishihara colour-blindness test. (2014)
This style of circle based portrait of me is only vaguely interesting because you can only see really “see it” if you squint from a distance. (2013)
A stylised portrait made by mostly increasing the contrast and bleaching out the highlights. (2008)
A sort of pop art colourised portrait of my mum as a child. (2013)
A portrait of me in the style of the 2008 Sheppard Fairey “Hope” poster of Barack Obama.. (2014)

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