Stylized portraits to order. Portrait stylization and graphic techniques

When painting portraits, the artist strives to display the unique characteristics of each person in the picture, which is why such works resonate in our souls. Making such a non-trivial gift to your loved one is much easier than many people think!

For example, a stylized portrait on canvas, made in a form convenient for you, taking into account your wishes and preferences, will be a good surprise for your loved ones. If you have a favorite artist, then a handwritten canvas created in the style of this master would be a great idea. Do you prefer a certain modern style, or we will draw a bright and memorable image that meets all the canons of the genre. Are you interested in the Middle Ages or fiction in a fantasy style - our professionals will select suitable image, backgrounds and costumes to bring your dreams to life on canvas.

Why is a portrait on canvas better than a regular photograph?

It would seem that technology, including photographic technology, which is improving year after year, should satisfy all our needs. But this does not happen, because often there is something missing in the photographs.

Unique handmade

There is no zest or “soul” in modern photographs, and all because automation has erased the beautiful flair of individuality that we see on handmade canvases. This is why paintings by modern masters, including handwritten stylized portraits on canvas, painted by the hands of artists, are so popular. Besides portrait painting attracts more than any other, and if it depicts our loved ones or people dear to us, then its value increases many times over.

Refined techniques for creating stylized canvases, liveliness of images and plots, precision and warmth of handmade work - all this makes it an ideal solution as a gift for any holiday. In addition, such images compare favorably with many other gifts due to their unusualness and uniqueness.

You can please your child or grandparents, parents, other relatives, as well as acquaintances and, of course, close friends with such a picture. To order, you just need an ordinary photograph, which will come to life and reveal its hidden facets on the master’s canvas.

Types of stylized portrait

When creating such portraits, the artist is not constrained by the usual framework and can generalize and even change the drawing in some way, and first agree on his vision with you. Stylized canvases are created taking into account any, even the most striking and unusual wishes and needs. This method is especially popular among people with a developed imagination and excellent artistic taste.

That is why creative space is practically unlimited. Most often we order portraits stylized as:

• Historical - a picture in ancient costumes with decorations from previous years;
• Pop art - a bright, contoured, slightly “cartoonish” image will decorate any interior;
• Grunge is a specially soiled, shabby and slightly aged image with the effect of deliberate sloppiness;
• Flip flop is a template interactive portrait in the creation of which the customer himself can participate.
• Cartoon is a funny comic image that emphasizes any hobbies or character traits.

When creating stylized paintings on canvas, we usually use less, but the artist’s capabilities are not limited only to these materials; at your request, we will paint a portrait with other paints or pastels. All that is required is a photograph from which the portrait will be created.

What can surprise you? modern man? Indeed, in the era of nanotechnology and special effects, it seems possible to do this challenging task. However, art has no limit to ideological perfection. Stylized portraits on canvas can be a real surprise for everyone and give a fireworks display of rainbow emotions. A variety of styles, computer or handmade, will become a true decoration of any home. Let's get acquainted with the features of creative work.

Procedure

Digital artists create such masterpieces. The entire process of creating a stylized portrait is placed in several stages:

Preparatory. The customer selects a suitable photo for processing. And the artist, in turn, creates style sketches in which future portraits will look organically.

Job. After agreeing on the choice, the master proceeds directly to drawing. To do this, he uses a tablet or computer and a special real brush is replaced by a virtual pen.

Completion. After the portrait is accepted and approved by the customer in in electronic format, the wizard can proceed to print it. But this action is performed not on paper, but on linen or cotton canvas. Then, at the customer’s request, the canvas can be framed.

Difficulties

The most difficult moment is choosing the theme in which the stylized portrait will be designed. The arts are quite diverse and today there are more than a dozen of them. And the imagination of artists knows no boundaries. Among the creative achievements is stylization of an animated character, street graffiti or paintings by a famous designer. Let's get acquainted with the most popular ones.

Pencil drawing

Any work of art begins with a pencil drawing. However, for modern masters this is a self-sufficient technique of execution. With the help of cunning manipulations, the artist can draw a stylized portrait not only in the classical black and white style, but also to give the images of the composition glow, volume and even a certain shade.

Watercolor portrait

An intermediate style between painting and drawing is an inflorescence of childish enthusiasm and blurred lines. In reality, such drawings are short-lived. However, a clear image, full of romance and nostalgia, airiness and colors, can be embodied by the master in a more artistic and durable masterpiece. To do this, a portrait stylized as watercolor will require only pigment ink and canvas.

Grunge

A lot of comfort and reflection can be found in the grunge style. He continues well-known musical traditions and introduces quiet muted tones, some roughness and anti-glamor into the portraiture. At the same time, a grunge-stylized portrait contains a certain charge of energy, ready to literally explode at any moment. The technique uses special filters and the effect of an artificially erased palette. Such works can be presented to extraordinary people who are constantly in creative search.

Low Poly

Low Poly style is shining example interaction between art and technology. He came to us from the computer industry. In this version, the image, like a puzzle, consists of many polygons, or polygons. This feature is associated with the first 3D pictures, when computer technology was still far from perfect.

Low Poly style has become a part of our lives. People began to imagine themselves as computer heroes and transfer their images into real life through pictures made manually or using graphic editors. It is this quality that can be used to stylize a portrait in Photoshop. This is a design trend today. Originality is emphasized by the combination of canvas and digital style.

Painting

Fans of 15th century oil paintings will appreciate the portrait, stylized as painting. This is the most popular and sought-after genre in modern fine arts. This technique gives elitism and aristocracy to the work. They were once considered finished after long hours of posing. In rare cases, the silhouette was a figment of the artist's imagination.

Today, you can create a stylized portrait in Photoshop only using digital photography. Of course, far from minor role The ambience of the human image plays here. For painting, landscapes, retro furnishings, studio penumbra, etc. are considered successful. Although for professional artist sometimes it just doesn't matter. He first makes a collage and then stylizes it. The process itself is in many ways reminiscent of natural painting. The only difference is the tools. Instead of the usual easel and brush with a palette, the master holds a compact tablet in his hands.

Historical style

As a child, everyone dreams of trying on or fairy tale character, or the outfit of an emperor or empress. Fantasy here can be limitless. But who said that you need to rent for this? theater scenery, dresses? Hand graphic editor will make your dream come true in a luxurious canvas that will carry memory and vivid impressions after many years. A historical portrait will help you take part in an exciting game of transformation and touch a childhood dream. It literally requires only the face of the addressee; everything else is a matter of artistic technique.

What photos are suitable for stylized portraits?

Customers often have doubts about the choice of photographs. There is an opinion that such work requires clear, color photographs taken in the studio by a professional photographer. However to a good master you can work with almost any material: be it a video frame, old black and white photos, mobile pictures or from pages social networks. An expert in graphic editing programs will first scan and process the photograph, and then begin stylizing the portrait.

It is worth remembering that family, wedding photos, image of a child or beloved pet. The work for the artist will, of course, become more complicated, and the process will be reflected in the amount of the fee. But such a gift will turn out to be the most memorable and original.

Decor

The design of the canvas also plays an important role. After all, an ordinary canvas mounted on wooden slats will look tasteless and lonely. The choice of frame depends on the style of the portrait. So, for a classic canvas, a wooden, varnished frame with or without patterns is suitable. Its width should be visually in harmony with the size of the portrait. In numerical terms, this correlation looks like this:

Canvas in modern style can be enclosed in a thin frame made of other materials (plastic, metal, etc.). The main thing is that the whole composition looks organic.

One more important point is the color of the frame. If the stylized portrait contains warm colors, then it is more logical to choose a brown or gold design. If, on the contrary, cool shades dominate, then a silver frame will look ideal. For portraits stylized as pencil drawings, a thin, classic black frame is suitable.

The general rule for creating such unique paintings is their compliance with the tastes of the customer, the character of the recipient, the opinion of the master and the interior in which the future masterpiece will be placed.

By stylizing a portrait, you will not only transform the photo, but also make it even more attractive. To get started, all you need is “PhotoMASTER” and read this article. From the text below you will learn how beautifully and unusually you can stylize portrait photographs in this program.

Photography from the last century

Antique stylized photos are great way touch history. It’s very easy to feel like a resident of another era: just upload a photo to PhotoMASTER and apply one of the suitable effects from the built-in catalog to it. Presets “Retro – 1”, “Retro – 2”, “Retro – 3” will instantly take you back to the last century.

However, you can always try to create a vintage style from scratch. To do this, reset the applied effects and return to the “Improvements” section. Switch to Black and White mode, and then in the Colors tab, add orange or brown toning to the photo. Adjust the strength and specify the blending mode.

To achieve greater verisimilitude, go to the "Composition" section and process the edges of the photo using vignetting. Adjust its strength, shape and other parameters.

An exciting journey into the world of cinema

By installing “PhotoMASTER” on your computer, you can feel like the hero of your favorite movie. To do this, you only need to perform a simple stylization of the portrait. Select a movie, start it and determine which color scheme is dominant. It will be the key to your success. Next, open the photo in a photo editor and get to work. Let's try to stylize the photo, focusing on the film "Alice in Wonderland".

To achieve this result, you need to go to the “Colors” tab and add a blue tint. Set the Strength to 60 and set the Blending Mode to Soft Light.

If necessary, here you can mute or accentuate any color in the photo, if such a feature is present in the film you have chosen. Now go back to the Basic tab and adjust the Exposure and Contrast tone settings. In our case, they need to be reduced:

We successfully stylized a photograph to look like a film. Similarly, you can adjust almost every photograph to any other work of cinema.

Incredible transformation: from photograph to drawing

Do you want to turn a photo into a painting masterpiece? This is very easy to do using the PhotoMASTER program. Go to the Sharpness menu. Here, increase the Strength, Radius, and Threshold parameters one by one. Then add a slight blur. For example, when processing a photo, we increased the strength to 257 and decreased the transparency to 38.

Go back to the “Basic” tab and experiment with the light of the photo. Let’s make the photo lighter and more contrasty and slightly reduce the value of the “Dark” parameter. If desired, increase the saturation or change individual colors in the image to others in the tab of the same name.

Drawing with a pencil is similarly easy to do. Switch to Black and White mode. Then, as in the case above, adjust the sharpness of the photo. Increase the strength, for example, to 265, move the slider on the “Radius” scale to 5.6, “Threshold” to 20. Set the blur strength to maximum, and reduce its transparency. This will tone down any overly prominent highlight areas in your photo.

Go back to the “Basic” tab and adjust the tone. Don't forget to monitor the result in the preview window.

Tools to improve photo quality

Before styling, be sure to retouch the photo and eliminate all defects that could spoil the final result. For example, an adjustment brush will help you get rid of red eyes, certain fragments of a photo, and make other edits. Use the Stamp tool to cover up dark circles, pimples, blemishes, and flash highlights.

Also in the program you can crop any photo: to do this, just go to the “Compositions” section and use the “Crop” function. Mark the new borders of the photo and click “Apply”.

Now you know how to process a photo in an original way in a photo editor. Artistic processing portrait will help you create stylish decor for your home, as well as make an unusual avatar for forums and social networks. Unleash your inspiration: use the PhotoMASTER program and bring your wildest ideas for photo processing to life!

This tutorial will show you how to style a digital photo using the collodion process in Photoshop.

About the technology itself

Wet plate, also known as the wet collodion process (wiki), as a method of photography, was first described in 1851, although the substance called collodion was invented several years earlier. It was quite complex technology, which required several chemical reactions, but it revolutionized photography - after all, compared to daguerreotype, it gave more quality result, and many times faster.

But already in late XIX centuries, the collodion process was replaced by more technologically advanced materials, and now it is used extremely rarely. However, to create a portrait in the Wet Plate style, it is not at all necessary to carry out complex and expensive operations with collodion and silver. All you need is Photoshop and 10 minutes of free time.

Simulate Wet Plate in Photoshop

You can work with any digital photograph, for example, a portrait. The first thing to do is sharpen the image. To do this, create a duplicate layer and apply the “Color Contrast” filter to it (Filter -> Other -> Color Contrast). Now move the slider so that only the edges of the objects on the gray background. Then apply the blending mode “Soft Light” or “Overlay” to the layer. Play with the settings - they will be different for each frame. Excessive sharpening can be reduced by reducing the opacity of the layer.

The second step is to imitate the blur: it appears due to long exposure in real wet collodion process. Duplicate the background layer again and apply the Motion Blur filter to it. Choose an angle within 27 degrees - you don't need too much blur.

The third action is the mask. Create a mask for the blur layer and draw the silhouette of a person. Leave a little blur around the edges of the face and body.

The next step is working with Channel Mixer. Check the box next to “Monochrome”. Now edit the red, green and blue channels to get the colors you want and bring out the details of the face. In each case the settings will be unique, but for our example they are: Red -80, Green -10, Blue +200.

Step five - adjustment layers. Add a “Curves” adjustment layer and move the curve a little to deepen the shadows. Then move the leftmost point of the curve slightly up and the rightmost point slightly to the left.

Now add another layer and work with the levels to remove the brightness of the white, making it gray.

Step six is ​​to apply a photo filter. Create another adjustment layer, select the color “Sepia”, the density value is about 25%.

Step seven - imitation of texture. The true collodion process used metal or glass plates. Search the Internet for similar textures or brushes that imitate scuff marks or crumpled paper. Overlay them so that they are visible at the edges of the image. This will give the image a realistic appearance, as if people handled the plate or did not wipe off the dust before applying the solution to it. In short, the task is to create some defects in the image.

Then you can add some highlights to imitate a shiny surface. Don't overdo it with textures - just a little bit around the edges will be enough.

The eighth step is adding noise. Create a new blank layer and press Shift+Backspace or Shift+F5. In the “Fill” window that opens, in the “Content” section, select “50% gray” and click OK. Then go to Filter -> Noise -> Add Noise. Don’t forget to check the box next to “Monochrome” again and set the noise value to your liking. Apply the blending mode to the layer “Overlay” and reduce the opacity to 50%.

The last step is to create the stains and rust that have appeared on our “metal plate” over time. You can make the spots yourself: add a new layer and touch the brush to different places in the photo. The brush should be soft, large in diameter, black. Then apply the Gaussian Blur filter with a larger radius. Apply the Darken or Multiply mode to the layer and adjust the opacity as desired.

It is better to look for the texture of rust on the Internet. Overlay it on the image in Overlay mode and play with the transparency again.

The Wet Plate style portrait is ready.

The entire process of creating a photo can be seen in this video:

Stylized portraits is a fairly young art direction that has gained popularity in a relatively short period of time. If you creative person If you love everything creative and unconventional, then stylized portraits on canvas are exactly what you need!

A variety of styles makes it possible to choose exactly what you were looking for! The artist will take into account any of your wishes when creating a sketch. If you do not find what you need among the styles on the site, you can send the artist any other sample images, and your sketch will be made in their likeness.

The artist approaches each portrait individually and draws it on graphics tablet by hand. Be sure to send you a photo of the work for approval, as well as making adjustments if necessary. And after approval, the finished portrait is printed on canvas or drawn by hand, depending on your preferences.

Pop art originally appeared in the 50-60s of the last century. Its author is considered to be a popular creative figure of that time - Andy Warhol, who, using the silk-screen printing technique, skillfully transformed the portrait of Marilyn Monroe. A portrait using this technique will be an excellent gift for those who love brightness, expression and novelty - a gift for a girl or boyfriend, newlyweds or a gift for Anniversary life together- it will definitely be appreciated and you will be satisfied!

Digital art portrait is drawing the contours and transitions of an image on a graphics tablet with the addition of a decorative background. Such a portrait will not leave a creative person indifferent and will perfectly decorate a bright modern interior!

Portraits in grunge light style

A portrait in this style looks very light, as if airy, and, at the same time, expressive and bright. Grunge textures and bright colors actively involved in this style. This portrait would make a great gift. romantic nature or a lover of everything bright and unusual!

The name speaks for itself. This style originated from the digital style, but differs from it in that it seems to place the person being portrayed in the atmosphere of space. This looks amazing! This portrait is perfect for a gift to your girlfriend or boyfriend; you can also depict a couple or a family - whatever you want, your choice!

There are 2 options for performing a stylized portrait:

1. Handmade. The portrait is done by hand by the artist acrylic paints on canvas. Order execution time is up to 7 working days (details are discussed).


2. Printed version. The portrait is printed on natural canvas and stretched on a wooden stretcher. Order execution time is up to 5 working days.

The portrait will be made in Bryansk on high-quality canvas and delivered to you anywhere in the city or by mail throughout the region, as well as throughout Russia!

Additional services available:
Baguette frame, gift wrap with bow and postcard sticker on the back of the canvas (additional cost). The dimensions of the work are also discussed; you can order a non-standard format if desired.

Prices for stylized portraits

* Prices are indicated in rubles, taking into account per person (1 person). The cost for several persons is negotiable. The cost of the work includes the work of the designer to create a collage and the work of the artist to draw the details.