Irvin Rodriguez's Digital Art

Marc Chagall and the Visual Story

Chagall,who was born in Russia, lived and worked in France, created these wonderful paintings to describe events that happened in his life and from his culture. He lived through world war one in Europe and escaped to New York during World War 2. His work was influenced by other artists and styles, including Surrealism, Cubism and the colors of the Impressionists.

Look for how he uses COLOR, VALUES, and the SIZE of objects in his work to describe a story....

You can see more of his work here....

the artist...

I And The Village, 1911, this picture is over 6 feet tall!

"Birthday", 1915, celebrates his love for his wife....

"The Juggler", 1943, painted during his exile in New York. Perhaps juggling his life, work and memories of home in war ravaged Europe?

Ideas For Portrait Backgrounds

As you plan out the background for your portrait, look at these examples for inspiration... Notice how they use COLOR, VALUE and SYMBOLS, PATTERNS or Visual TEXTURES.

Van Gogh's  "Woman Rocking a Cradle", 1889

Van Gogh's Joseph-Etienne Roulin, 1889

David Hockney, Self Portrait

Gustave Klimt's, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Gustave Klimt sketch

Durer's Self Portrait

Great Portrait Examples

Check out this link for some photoshop Portrait examples..... Notice how you can see the brush marks in some of them, and how they use the HIGHLIGHTS to make the face "pop"!

See more @ http://abduzeedo.com/50-amazing-digital-painting-portraits

Portrait Drawing Set Up

Here are screen shots of how our Photoshop portrait is set up. Notice the layers, what they are named, and the "mode" they are set on....
• Under drawing is the foundation image, figure out the values first!
• color layer will "colorize" your under drawing
• Screen layer will add highlights
• Multiply layer adds shadows and darkens

The set up! Notice the swatches and layers are visible

Here is the layers pallet and the named layers living there!

STEVEN ASSAEL's classic style

Check out this skilled artist! Here are some of his drawings to show you more eyes and feature....

See more of his work here@ http://www.stevenassael.com/drawings.html

SKULL!!!!!

Some quick reference photos of the skull!!!

Look at how the shapes in the skull help make the light and shadow shapes of the face...