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Another day another portrait. Sort of. I did this one in about three hours from a photo. Got lazy on the background. I used a grid to figure out the proportions etc.

Here’s another portrait. It’s Matt Parkman form the TV show Heroes. It took me about 6 hours total over about a week. I started saving some progress pictures, but they were so far from how it finally turned out that I didn’t bother. I’ll post the reference photo later.

Painted in Photoshop with some standard brushes.

Painted this morning with mah little Wacom tablet and Photoshop. From a reference photo.

Son House was an influential Delta blues musician, and composed one of my favourite songs – Death Letter. Watch him lay it down.

So after watching Joe Bluhm YouTube videos earlier today, I felt inspired to do a portrait. Digging through my photo collection I found a pretty good photo of my brother Adam and went to town. About four hours later I ended up with this…

In case you’re noticing some weirdness around his left eye, it’s because it was swollen. The photo was taken a day after he got into a fight!

As the title suggests, I painted a picture of Kevin Spacey. I tried to capture the most important lines from reference photo, then added a couple skintones.

The right eye isn’t quite right, and I’m missing some of the emotion from his face, but overall I’m pretty happy with it.