Pop Art Portraits – A Modern Approach to Transforming Photos
Pop Art Portraits are hip art forms especially for your loved ones. Your friends will indeed be impressed by the unusual gift of a pop art portrait. A pop art portrait gift will be treasured by your friends for many years to come. Giving gifts today no longer requires you to spend lots of money. Creativity is all that is needed and experiment.
Pop art became an art movement of the 20th century. Pop art is basically the isolation of a visual representation of modern commodities. The artist can add expression to give the portrait a different meaning to the original image. For example, the portrait of Marilyn Monroe (the visual commodity) is made into a cartoon drawing (the isolation). The artist would then put colors or different pastel backgrounds to jazz up the picture.
Even though your friend is not a celebrity, you can still convert their photo to pop art easily. Choose an image with him in it, then use software such as illustrator to go over the facial features.
Go over the dominant features to bring out detail. For nose, tracing the nostrils will be enough. Place importance on the iris when drawing the eyes. After tracing, you put color in the picture as well as detail until complete.
You can manipulate the portrait and put a different background. You can also transfer faces onto celebrity bodies for a lighter, funnier style of pop art. Bright colours can be added to the portrait to give it a more lively feel. Putting earth colors would add a warm feeling. You can also go for a classic feel and just choose plain black and white.
Pop Art Portraits can also be done on family photographs. You could sketch the faces of the family members and presto – you get an instant classic gift.
Turn your pop art portraits into canvas prints for a better finish. Canvas dimensions are completely your choice, meaning you control the costing. You can ask to have to artwork stretched or rolled in a tube. Imagine your friends, parents, and children remembering you every time they see the portrait.
With todays technology, canvas prints can be made at almost any size. Not only that, you can get your pop art portraits in canvas print in not months but days. Canvas prints are made easier with the advancement of todays large format printers.
Not only as a gift, pop art portraits can be used for logos, greeting cards, or even collage. The uses are limitless and you will see that making them is plain cool and simple.
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