Portraits for Formul8

The client's request:-
"......the photos are for a book about people so the portraits should be as real as possible.....need to be recognisable"

Heard that these portraits are for the Nokia Book. Not sure what it is.

Anyway, spent about 6 hours to complete these portraits. I can feel the pain at the back of my neck and joint at the index fingers.

This set of portraits are done in simple strokes, without full shading.
More like my pencil sketches for portraits, before I do the actual shading, but the lines are less sketchy and more refined in this case.







His expression was fun to draw.
Have some good time putting in the shades.





Think this portrait will look even better with the full shading.
Very tempted to do the shading on the bald head especially, but this is not in the client's requirement.




Her hat was in total darkness in the photo given.
Got to put in some imagination here on the folds and form of the hat here.


This is the style which I usually see in Hong Kong comics.
The lines of the shadow followed the angle /direction which the subject is looking at.
Put it in this set of portraits. Think the style is most evident in this portrait.


I like this portrait, on his expression and mood.



The photo provided was distorted to a certain extent.
Perhaps the lens was too closed to the subject.
Thus, it looked a bit wierd in this portrait.


I deliberately leave out the shadow part of the right of the portrait.
Wanted to express the shades in a different way.
Instead of shades, I changed it to highlight.
I think it looked quite unique on this simple stroke style.




In this case, I shaded in the shadow part on the right, with lines.
Which one do you prefer?


This one too, but looking it again, I think it should look better by leaving the shades out, just like the portrait of Chow Yun Fatt which I have done years ago.


This photo provided by the client, was really blurred.
Had quite a hard time in getting his features out.



The client requested to have him looking straight, and gave me another photo of him looking straight. Can't help him, as the latter was too low resolution. His eyes were only made up of a few pixels. Can you imagine the size and resolution of the photo given?