Thursday, July 23, 2009

A recently completed commissioned portrait project

The client wanted a surprise birthday present for his lovely wife. He proposed that I make a really colorful portrait of her!! (I know, how very sweet!! ). I was working on a tight deadline of just 4 days.

So here is my process, with lots of pictures.


Portrait of a woman, personalized portraitsThis is the lovely wife and my subject.

Portrait of a woman, personalized portraits
I chose shades of brown and green with a dash of blue and red for the portrait.
I just love a riot of colors!

Portrait of a woman, personalized portraitsAfter the hair I drew out the eyes.
I use Wacom's pen tablet to sketch directly on my mac. And I love it to death!


Portrait of a woman, personalized portraits
Then I filled out the rest of her face and the other side of hair.

Portrait of a woman, personalized portraitsAnd then the neck and shoulders.
By this time the blue and green had started bothering me a little bit.
So I experimented with a new mostly red color palette.



Portrait of a woman, personalized portraitsIt didn't pop out as much as I would have liked it to.
So off to the drawing board again.

Portrait of a woman, personalized portraitsI went back to the original face. Changed the eyes to a less scary brown, and turned the hair red.
Now it had the pop I was looking for.

The client like the last version too and printed out a large 60cm X 60cm poster!

Portrait of a woman, personalized portraits
And here is the very happy wife with her very own custom portrait.
A very satisfying project indeed. :)

More about no shipping business model in the next post.

2 comments:

  1. She looks so happy - must have been rewarding to see that:-) Wonderful idea and portrait! Interesting and cool use of color, too.

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  2. You did a beautiful job capturing her beauty and making it stand out! She does look really happy and I bet that was very rewarding in itself to see that, great job!

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