Lets see your Portrait Illustrations!

Chris Ellerby · April 2015

Part 1 of Terry Wolfinger's portrait illustration series has just been released as an on-demand lesson! https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/tutorials/portrait-illustration-pencil-drawing-techniques

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Any illustrators here? Lets see your work!

/Chris

Olav Marahrens · April 2015

Hi Chris,
yes! Here you are

Siegfried Lenz. German famous writer.

Joachim Ringelnatz. German writer, as well.

... and last but not least, famous Heinrich Böll. (Pencil and Warercolor)

Carl Toti · April 2015

Image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v691/carlart/Army%20Sketch_zpskivha9tq.jpg

Some of my best pencil work.

Chris Ellerby · April 2015

Olav: Beautiful work. I really like the portrait of Siegfried Lenz.

Carl: Amazing as well! The fabric looks so real.

Very impressive!

/Chris

Olav Marahrens · April 2015

Great work!

Wren Wilcox · April 2015

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I wouldn't call myself professional but I dabble in portraiture. This is one of the monks from Legend of the Seeker, he just woke up in the underworld and I thought his expression was worth capturing. Freehand sharpie on recycled paper.

Solo Galura · May 2015

I've been experimenting with a different hatching technique for portraits.

The Mummy

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Bram,

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Frank,

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Chris Ellerby · May 2015

Those are beautiful Solo!

I really love the hatching technique. Very loose and organic.

/Chris

Solo Galura · May 2015

Thanks Chris. I've been trying to practice it for other projects, but it seems to loose some of the spontaneity of these originals.

Moises Patiño · May 2015

hello my fiends it is my work

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Luca Facchini · May 2015

Mr. Craig Daniel ageing without reference made in 20 min.

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this is the original one. enjoy

Chris Ellerby · May 2015

Very nice!

/Chris

Chris Ellerby · May 2015

Part 2 of Terry Wolfinger's series on portrait illustration is now available for on-demand viewing: https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/tutorials/portrait-illustration-painting-with-photoshop

In this lesson he covers working with photoshop, which I'm excited to check out.

Do any of you ever digitally enhance your traditional portrait illustrations?

/Chris

Luca Facchini · May 2015

You mean by zbrush or something similar?
I never but I will and post!

Chris Ellerby · May 2015

More in terms of using photoshop to refine, add color, etc.

/Chris

Jason Cope · May 2015

I watched this video recently and pulled out a drawing i had done back in 2001. I was very happy with how well I picked up on the techniques. Will be having a lot of fun with this going for in my art. Thanks SWSCA!

Lets see your Portrait Illustrations!

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