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Artists Uses iPad to Create Portraits
Other | Thursday 15th December 2011 | Osh
Long gone are the days when painting was strictly done with specialized tools, like brushes, on canvases. Nowadays artists use practically anything - Kyle Lambert a British artist uses just one finger on his iPad tablet to create detailed celebrity portraits with an app called Brushes.
Lambert starts out by sketching the basic facial proportions, drawing simple lines where the mouth, nose and eyes should be, making sure he gets the shape of the sitter’s head just right. After the initial sketch, he moves on to sketching the facial features, making sure he achieves a satisfying likeliness to the sitter. Then he adds tone to his sketch using the black paintbrush tool with various levels of opacity, before introducing highlights to the face, using the white paintbrush. Colours are added in the final stages of the process, and blend with the black and white underneath. It’s amazing the level of detail he can achieve, starting from scratch, but it’s also proof of how far technology has come in recent years.
