Vector portrait of Robin Williams used in T-shirt design

 

I like Robin Williams for his smart quotes. I was unaware of the fact that he had passed away a few years ago, probably in sad circumstances when I began drawing. This is a 100% vector portrait of the man not containing a single pixel. Created in Affinity Designer of course. Below is the progress sequence of this drawing; the oldest stage at the bottom, the newest one on top. Also a wireframe view of the vector drawing is included. No extreme detail such as pores, wrinkles and hair texture were included, because it is used in a T-shirt design. I may however add those some time in the future to make the portrait photo realistic. At the very bottom I placed the T-shirt design, based on one of his quotes. Click one of the images to go to Google's lightbox where you can flick through the stages by turning the scroll wheel of you mouse if you are on a PC.

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Stage 1

Wireframe view

Vector portrait used in T-shirt design

Al Pacino

This is the sequence of the portrait containing date and time of each shot. Oldest at the bottom, newest on top. Tools: Corel PhotoPaint & Huion H610PRO graphic tablet. Most detailing done with mouse. I will discusss into detail the techniques used to create this portrait in an other blog entry. Perhaps I must try Corel Painter one day as well.

There is something interesting about Pacino's face. As you may know the right side of the body - including the face - is controlled by the left brain and vice versa. If you vertically cover one half of his face you see two totally different expressions and even tissue texture. The left side of the face, controlled by the left brain hemisphere, is calm and shows relatively smooth skin tissue (relatively low muscle tension = relaxed), while the left side of his face reflects a very investigative gaze and displays more muscular tension, suggesting higher tenseness.

To see the difference between stages, click on the top image and you'll jump to the Blogger Lightbox. Then use the scroll wheel of the mouse to quickly browse through the sequential stage images.

AP July 18 2017 13:07 - head is completed

AP July 17 2017 22:05 - Texture detailing & ears

AP July 17 2017 12:33 - detailing texture left cheek

AP July 16 2017 20:30 - colored version

AP July 16 2017 20:30. Did some more detailing on the base layer.

AP 4x July 15 2017 15:11 - color tests

AP July 15 2017 12:02 - Further detailing textures

AP July 15 2017 00:49 - texturing upper cheeks

AP July 14 2017 03:13 - Updated face textures

AP July 12 2017 17:11 - Forehead texture & color test

AP July 12 2017 01:33 - color test

AP July 11 2017 14:20

AP July 10 2017 23:17

AP July 10 2017 (after computer crashed) 14:07

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AP July 06 2017 13:47 

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AP July 04 2017 15:30

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