But the process entails eyeballing in that you have to visually look at the photos and determine how to simplify the facial forms and details so it works in this format while still obviously picking up the needed characteristics to retain player recognition.

It all comes down to balancing what will be black, what will remain white and what will be grey.

Sometimes I have to draw them a few times before it looks right and captures the persons attributes accurately.

Due to budget I don’t just free style draw these, it would just take too long so part of the process is to secure the best source photos to work from and my client has an endless resource and archive of images to facilitate the arts creation.

Hope that explains it a little better. The tutorials images go over this more in depth though.

Von

Do you do the drawing by just eyeing it or actually trace from the photograph?

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and skills with these tutorials.