detective portraits

This is my final detective illustration, i created him by tracing his basic line wrok in photoshop and then adding in shading and detail with the brush tool, i flood coloured his clothes and then moved them to the side so that it distorted the image, i chose to leave his skin the same colour as the background, i did this because my main influence for this piece was Mark Smith and he often worked by block colouring the clothes of the character and would then leave the skin blank. I think this is good because it isolates his clothes which i think is key for Poirot,  his moustache, egg shaped head and expensive suit are the main elements which describe him and they are all highlighted in this image. The black lines bring out his moustache and the blank face and hands allow you to look more at his fine tailored black suit. 

Vector Poirot and the textures were created in photoshop  

Basic vector trace 

I used photoshop to trace a picture of Poirot, i added the shading myself with a brush in photoshop. I block coloured him using the paint bucket tool and finally created the noise around him using a speckled brush effect, then i just went back over it using different shades.

The original trace, done in photoshop

Realistic colouring of my Poirot trace in the style of Chris King

                                           

-Cockroach Poirot 

-Ink Poirot in the style of Skottie Young

                                                   

                                                             - Mr Bingo Poirot

                                                            -Crepe paper Poirot

                                                           - More crepe paper Poirot

   I created these guys by folding crepe paper into jacket shapes and then cutting out room for buttons and such, i then glued down the paper and illustrated on features.

                                                         

                       -  Pro marker Poirot, my first real play with pro markers, very Steve Bell esk

                                                                 - Pencil face Poirot
                                                   

                                                                    - Coloring pencil Poirot

                                                                  -Drawing onto picture

-More drawing onto pictures

                                                            - More drawing onto pictures

-God farther effect with marker 

 Quick ball point pen drawing 

-Pencil drawings 

 - Quick cartoon with fine liner

 - Drawing with different colour Biro 

 -Water colors 

 Photoshop inverted cut out  

Egg poirot

- PS colored cartoons 

PS colored cartoons 

-more PS colored cartoons 

Photoshop colored cartoons 

-Cartoon versions

Drawing cartoon versions 

 Below are some more drawings of Poirot which i have done using Photoshop, it shows the stages that i went through before i drew him out and some of the end versions i came out with.



Photoshop drawings of Poirot
First time drawing straight onto the canvas with a graphics tablet.