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| Invitation for Celeste, 142x110 mm, Created in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator |
Sweet, a little bit shy, and still in wonder at the world. Celeste is a little girl full of life.
She came over to sit for a portrait sketch the other day, and left me with a few adorable photos to work into a full drawing. I choose this one of her blowing dandelion seeds because it just captured the essence of childhood for me.
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| Portrait of Celeste, Reference Photo |
I then zoomed in on the face and upper body for the pencil drawing. It was not an easy pose, I did about 8 sketches that all made their way to the trash! ...but it was worth the effort.
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| Portrait of Celeste, pencil on paper, 297x420 mm |
Celeste's mother wanted to use this for her First Communion invitations, and we both agreed that it needed color!! So a little Photoshop was in order. I used the original photo as a color overlay, which worked pretty well for most of the features, and was especially fun because it allowed me to see how close my drawing was to the original. I then used a transparent brush over the details that were missing. Also at this stage, I removed the greys from the background and added a slight transparency to the entire image.
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| Portrait of Celeste, pencil drawing with digital editing and coloring, 297x420 mm |
I then created a double-sided Invite in Adobe Illustrator. Celeste's mother said that she wanted a romantic design, possibly on pink paper with gold letters. After toying with many options, we decided on this for the front side (I haven't included the back for privacy reasons).
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| Invitation for Celeste, 142x110 mm, Created in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator |
To my great pleasure, Celeste left our portrait sitting feeling inspired. She's been working on portraits of her own. Love it! This is what makes it all worthwhile...
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| Celeste's Self-portrait |
Labels: drawing, graphic design, graphics, paper, pencil, pencil on paper, portrait, works on paper