Continuing my research into portraiture in graphics, I came across an artist called David Walker. The blue piece in particular is what drew me to his work, the colour palette I immediately felt inspired by and wanted to re-create in my own work. As I'm coming down the route of using emotion and personality in my project, I felt that Walker's work was something to draw immediate inspiration from; the use of colour, texture, brush strokes, with a mix of realism is my intention for my project and to depict the two contrasts between the online and offline world.
Although done by hand, my aim is to recreate a similar appearance using brushes on Photoshop with paint strokes and mimicking the contrast between the background and the bright colours from the face. The work has been an inspiration for me because although it isn't exactly what I intended my work to look like, it's something I'm going to draw inspiration from and recreate in my own way, in Photoshop or Illustrator. Walkers work brings an emotional response to me because of the agressive strikes of colour and paint he's used.
Ref:
http://www.artofdavidwalker.com/
