This is the final work, which I produced after I made a series of studies. In the past weeks I shared three studies about the progress in this blog.
The work is for sale on Makersplace.com (edition of one, so it's pretty rare!).
Inspiration
I’m in search lately for new ways to make expressive portraits. Portraits that go beyond resemblance and also express and convey a strong emotion or mood to the viewer.
I've chosen a really tightly framed close-up perspective. This perspective is emphasizing the intense focus on the dejected feeling, which reduces and narrows the view and perspective on the outside world.
The color palet is not dull but rather bright. The bright colors are symbolizing that sadness is an internal state of mind. An emotion, which may not show on the surface at all.
Apart from its color palette and style, also the sheer physical size is an important quality of such a portrait! Large images tend to have far more impact. That's why I've been looking to find ways to 'blow up' the size of my works.
To circumvent the limitations that digital pixel based artworks have, I’ve created this portrait as a (infinitely) scalable vector graphic. This means it can be scaled without losing its razor sharp definition. Here's a detail of the work above, to show you the level of detail.
For sale on MakersPlace.com
The edition of the works can be exported in different sizes. For example I sell this work on MakersPlace.com with a size of 14000 x 14000 pixels, which is ample to print in high quality - 300 dpi - on 46” x 46” (120 x 120 cm). The file size: 18 MB in JPG-format.
I'd like to go even larger, but this is the maximum size which is accepted at MakersPlace.com currently.
This portrait was created first as a painting in acryl on canvas, then digitized and converted into vector graphics. The vector graphics have been intensively processed to achieve the final result.
Check out earlier works
You can read about the earlier works in this series of portraits on PeakD: