Art and Inspiration Blog | Web Designer | Stephanie Zuroff » Portraits http://www.stephaniezuroff.com/blog ...and designs, and sings, and draws, and sews, and... Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:22:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Digital Drawing: Jeff and Abby http://www.stephaniezuroff.com/blog/2010/03/14/digital-drawing-jeff-and-abby/ http://www.stephaniezuroff.com/blog/2010/03/14/digital-drawing-jeff-and-abby/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:11:27 +0000 stephanie http://www.stephaniezuroff.com/blog/?p=95 I have been working on a wedding website for my best friend Abby and her fiance Jeff. As a special request, Abby asked that I create a custom digital portrait for them. You can see some of the earlier, more illustrative sketches on my previous post. Even though the site is still not quite finished yet, I thought I would share the final art for the portrait :) Enjoy!

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1) The website is my wedding gift to the bride and groom (along with matching invitations and possibly save the date cards).
2) I have known the groom since I was in… middle school? Elementary school? It’s been so long I can’t even remember when we met! In addition, the bride is my very best friend and former college roommate.
3) I am the maid of honor!
The bride requested an artistic digital portrait of them for the banner. This has turned out to be a lot more challenging that I anticipated! Drawing someone I know so well is tricky, and getting the style on par with the rest of the design is time consuming. The final version of the drawing isn’t quite finished yet… but In the meantime, I thought I would share some of my early concept/practice doodles!

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This is the lovely Allison.

I’m quite happy with the eyes on this drawing. I discovered that when I run it though certain filters in photoshop, it starts to look more like a real photo than a digital drawing! But here it is as I painted it, raw and unfiltered.

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Here is my first digital painting since college!

It seems fitting that she is ghost like. I just finished reading Audrey Niffenegger’s new book, Her Fearful Symmetry, and I’ve got little ghost girls on the brain.

Do YOU want to become a digital illustration?
My hope is to use this blog as a motivator, and start posting my art at least once a week. In order to get better, I need to practice. In order to practice, I need reference photos. If you would like me to attempt to draw YOU (or someone you know), please send me a photo! High quality portraits with interesting/good lighting is preferred… but I’m sure I can work with anything :) Just leave a comment on this post, or send me an email with the photo you would like me to use!

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