I originally posted this drawing in 2019, but kept on working on it every now and then (which is what I often do). Many artists are familiar with this method of working, because after 'finishing' a drawing, it is more often than not discovered that the image needs more adjusting and / or additional work. At times this is a repetitively occuring moment, especially with portraits, in which likeness can depend on moving objects 1 or 2 millimeters, changing their size or shape, skewing them or fiddling with their colours. Faces are the most prominent visual characteristic of a person, which is why there is not a photo of your foot in your passport or ID card, but one of your face.
Emma Hardinge Britten was a well known spiritualist who lived from May 2 1823 to October 2 1899. She was a writer, public speaker, musician and opera singer in her younger days to support her family after her father passed away when she was 11 years old. Her spiritual gifts brought her fame and she was frequently consulted by high ranking politicians, corporate leaders and other important people of her day. It is an indication that elevated echelons of society value the spiritual reality that is intentionally kept hidden from common folk.
This portrait is a work in progress and is drawn in Affinity Designer. This program has all the functionality to create realistic vector portraits that can be edited afterwards relatively fast which is a pain to do with mesh-filled vector portraits. And since tinkering is almost a necessity for portrait artists Affinity Designer is their ideal tool to make 100% vector portraits that can be re-scaled to any size without loss of quality. However, this work also contains vector brushes, which are not really vectors - more about this later.
This portrait is a work in progress and is drawn in Affinity Designer. This program has all the functionality to create realistic vector portraits that can be edited afterwards relatively fast which is a pain to do with mesh-filled vector portraits. And since tinkering is almost a necessity for portrait artists Affinity Designer is their ideal tool to make 100% vector portraits that can be re-scaled to any size without loss of quality. However, this work also contains vector brushes, which are not really vectors - more about this later.
Had to place this here or else the ugly image below will show up in preview |
Ugly Adobe Illustrator attempt (no offence) to create a realistic vector portrait, b.t.w., this is caused by Adobe Illustrator's limited functionality to create realistic art. |
This is the custom vector brush created to draw realistic strands of hair. This can be imported in your collection of brushes and used for this specific purpose. |
This is the custom made brush used to paint skin pores. Mix dark strokes and bright strokes combined, the latter always on top in the layer panel. |
Mind you - as I found out later - vector brushes in Affinity Designer do NOT create vectors, but are pixels created inside of a vector drawing program, that will remain bitmaps. So when creating realistic art with Affinity Designer, be sure to make large images in order to avoid blurring and jagged edges when using 'vector' brushes, if the intention is to make large prints of the image.
September 20 2019 00:09 virtually in 3D frame |
September 20 2019 00:09 |
September 16 2019 stage 12 vector curves & Brush strokes outline view (hugely helpful in the process of drawing) |
September 12 2019 11:50 |
September 11 2019 11:01 |
September 10 2019 17:20 |
September 9 2019 20:13 |
September 9 2019 16:43 |
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September 8 2019 |
September 8 2019 |
September 8 2019 |