Pop Art Painting Time Lapse (easy)

This is a picture of a good friend's daughter. I was asked to paint it in a pop-art style in black and white on a 2'x2' canvas.

I'm no artist so I took a short cut. This method should be within most people's abilities.

I took a picture that I was sent and processed it in Photoshop using the Stamp filter, tweaking Light/Dark Balance and Smoothness till I had the effect I wanted. It's important to make sure the facial features and especially the eyes come out right. I transferred the image in pencil to pre-primed framed canvas using a grid and used a Sakura paint marker to outline the image and sine details. Then I simply painted it in using carbon black pigment in arcylic base. Once dried, I erased the pencil lines.

The photoshop work took all of ten minutes, the pencilling maybe an hour and the inking and painting two more hours. It'd have been easier to go to a design house and have them print it onto canvas, but this looks a lot less like a cheap print out and was a lot more fun.

FYI, the camera was a Ricoh GX200 running automatic interval timing at 5 seconds interval. The stop-motion movie was compiled in Photoshop CS3 with a frame rate of 24 fps.

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Howto & Style

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• pop-art
• photoshop tutorial
• time lapse
• painting
• crafts
• arts
• drawing
• pencil drawing

[ZDP189HK]

@performancecatapults Thanks Jim!

[performancecatapults]

Awesome!