If you would like to watch a couple videos of a traditionally painted portrait, check out these links. This is why so many of these “paintings” look like a photograph. This is actually very hard to do, because most digital artists lean more toward the realism of a photograph rather than the creative interpretation of a traditionally painted portrait. The trick is to get the photograph to appear like a hand painted painting and not so much as a photograph.
PAINTED PORTRAITS SOFTWARE
The software I use is Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop. The difference is, a traditionally painted portrait is started from a blank canvas with the photo only used as a reference.Ī digitally “painted” portrait actually starts with the photo, and digitally manipulates the photo to look like a painting. Both traditional portraits and digital portraits typically start with a photograph. Wow! I hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but as a full-time portrait artist, both digitally and traditionally, these digital “paintings” are not all that difficult. so, again, you either like them or you dont, and if you don’t just get over yourselves! We live in a time of familiar faces, and faces made familiar by film, media and photographs, so surely, these pieces are an accurate representation of the ‘face focused’ world we live in.
PAINTED PORTRAITS TV
For over a hundred years we have been bombarded with realism, and as technology improves, our sense of realism is heightened (HD TV being a great case in point).Their technicality is something of a distraction, as is the familiarity of the faces, but more distracting still is the need that many of the viewers seem to find in comparing them with another method of representation.
You either like them or you dont, but the same could be said of a Rodin sculpture (realistic?)or any of the 20th century movements in realism. Whilst they are neither portraits, photographs or paintings in the strictest sense, they are objects, and have been created by an artist so their individual quality (and collective merit as a contemporary style/genre) is surely what is important.
I cannot help but wonder at the bitterness and cynicism of many of the comments regarding these images.
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