Using the Rectangle Tool (M), I trace the highlight In this case, the eyes and the surrounding areas. And the smallest part usually becomes my firstĬhoice. I usually start the tracing process by selecting an area with aĭefinite boundary between the dark and bright areas. This is where you'll be drawing your faceted shapes. Lock the layer the photo is contained in and then Create New Layer above the photo. Go to File > Place and locate your reference image and place it on your artboard. Set the size and other settings as shown below. Open Adobe Illustrator and create a New document ( File > New). For this tutorial I'm going to be creating a portrait of my Also make sure that the image is sharp and inįocus. Lighting and resolution, will help you to create a good final renderingĪim for a photo that has even lighting and does not hit extremes,Įither in light or shadow. Selection is important because a good photo in quality, image sharpness,
The faceting process is based on photo tracing. No matter whatĬolor you choose, as long as you pick it from the right group, the It possible for us to make a dimensional composition. With each other, effort should be made to make it lookĬreative experts will classify colors in groups. Although the colors look as if they collide In coloring, to show something stronger, I only use flat colors, Sphere, just like the ball in the below image. This is becauseįacets that are formed by straight lines will appear stronger than aīefore we start the process, we should begin to see and assume theįace of a human being as a shape that consists of many flat surfaces on a Is formed by straight lines, instead of curved lines. Every facet (plane) is formed based on the differentĭegrees of dark and bright areas seen on the original photo. In the faceting process, by tracing the image, I divide the humanįace into facets. Processes simultaneously when creating a new portrait. Processes the faceting process and the coloring process. With that in mind, the WPAP creative process is based on two main More striking and of course, more visually pleasing to see, I hope. Different in a sense of being more unique, more dynamic,
To us, with a new and different style, but it still must be easily WPAP's main goal is to represent the faces that are already familiar Portrait) portrait in Adobe Illustrator, by the WPAP master himself!
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The following is a tutorial on how to create a WPAP (Wedha's Pop Art Geometric trend, it's fair to say that WPAP may venture out of Indonesia WPAP style, with members in their thousands! With the resurgence of the Since then, it has gained major popularity in Indonesia, with severalĬommunities dedicated to the creation and showcasing of portraits in a Vector being the natural choice for such a Mediums early in the 1990s, which later in early 2000, crossed over Wedha, originally from Indonesia, created his art work in traditional Tuts+ has the honor to present to you a vector tutorial from a true legend, Wedha Abdul Rasyid.