Pop Art Portraits are hip art forms especially for your loved ones. Your friends will indeed be impressed by the unusual gift of a pop art portrait. A pop art portrait gift will be treasured by your friends for many years to come. Gifting today no longer demands you to spend lots of bucks. Creativity is all that is needed and experiment.
The art movement of pop art began in the 20th century. Pop art is basically the isolation of a visual representation of modern commodities. The artist can add expression to give the portrait a different meaning to the original image. For example, the portrait of Marilyn Monroe (the visual commodity) is made into a cartoon drawing (the isolation). The artist would then use various colours or design to improve the background.
Even though your friend is not a celebrity, you can still convert their photo to pop art easily. Choose an image with him in it, then use software such as illustrator to go over the facial features.
Go over the dominant features to bring out detail. For the nose, a simple nostril outline would be enough. Place importance on the iris when drawing the eyes. Once the outlines are traced, colour and detail are slowly added to complete the portrait.
You can manipulate the portrait and put a different background. You can even borrow your friend’s face and put it on the body of Pamela Anderson. Bright colours can be added to the portrait to give it a more lively feel. Putting earth colors would add a warm feeling. You can also choose simple black and white for a more classic feel.
You can also use family photos for your portraits. You could sketch the faces of the family members and presto – you get an instant classic gift.
For a more impressive result, turn your pop art portraits into canvas prints. You can customize the size of canvas and you will give a genuine art form with less money to burn. You can have the artwork rolled in a tube or stretched over a frame ready to be displayed. Loved ones can be remembered forever in a modern format.
Todays modern technology allows us to produce canvas prints up to almost any size. Only a few days is all that is required to produce your artwork. Todays large format printers can produce outstanding colour and quality whilst making the job easier.
Pop art porttraits are not only gift ideas but can be used for any kind of greeting card or collage. The uses are limitless and you will see that making them is plain cool and simple.
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