Portrait Illustration

Hello everybody !!!

Welcome to my first blog ever in my life. I'm NOOMd from the major of Computer Graphics & Multimedia, Bangkok University International College. So, I'll greet you guys with a warm welcome by telling you a little description of me in the Illustration career.

There are many kinds of illustration in nowadays.

• Advertising/Commercial Illustration
• Editorial Illustration
• Medical Illustration
• Fashion Illustration
• Portraits
• Caricature
• Children's Book Illustration
• Book Jacket Illustration

For me, I'm interested the most in "lighting" (not lightning). In my future, I plan to be a freelance photographer focusing on Fashion career, setting up lights in studio. By doing that, we need to really understand the way light moves. So, it would be great if we can control lights in a paper. That's why I choose "Portraits"

A good portraiture really understands the way light bounces and create the dimension on the subject they wants to express. By placing the lights in different directions can create a big different expressing emotion.

In Portrait Illustration, there're tonnes of artist, but one of them inspired me the most. She is "Linda Huber". For more information, you can check out her website: http://midtel.net/~imaginee/artist_statement.html

She is a realistic portraiture, a very incredible portraiture. It is like taking the real photo from the subject and make it black&white. Her way of placing the light makes the subject looks like it is real and touchable. I also have some of her work.

Image from http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2010/04/50-ultra-realistic-female-portrait-drawings/

"This image really pulls out the feeling of the model and the way she draw really makes the skin really looks like it is a real human skin."

Image from http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2010/04/50-ultra-realistic-female-portrait-drawings/

"This image creates a very strong hi-light on the model's hat. Makes it stands out and makes it really realistic."

Image from http://midtel.net/~imaginee/art10-11.html

"Look that those hairlight and the dark backdrop in the image. Makes it a really dynamic image. Pulls out the subject from the background"

Image from http://midtel.net/~imaginee/art10-11.html

"Those details in the sculpture makes it really realistic and also the lighting also creates an old antique feel to the drawing."

 I hope you all get some inspirations to develop your ideas.
See you next post!