I will give you a detailed analysis of the Illustrator software to share with you the tutorial on designing the pop art style portrait effect.
Tutorial sharing:
1. Copying the profile
Open AI and create a document. The document size is not strictly specified. If you are a beginner, try to be consistent with the size of my document. Refer to the following figure to see the various parameter values that I will set.
A beginner should understand that various parameter values in the software will change with the size of the document you have drawn. You need to meet your actual needs, debug parameters on the panel controlled by each tool to find the best results.
Next, drag the portrait you want to copy into the document to reduce the transparency of the embedded image. The purpose is to make the subsequent lines clearly visible. Lock the layer panel. A new layer should be created for painting.
Find the angle and diagram of the portrait you want to depict. So that you can adjust the image in the middle.
Close fill, enable stroke, set the stroke size to 1, the color is arbitrary, it is best to choose a color that is easy to recognize. Copy the main outlines of the original portrait. The details are negligible, but the characteristics of portraits must be outlined.
2. Color filling
As we have mentioned above, the characteristics of the pop style are bold and bright. Experienced designers will set the appropriate color palette for themselves from the very beginning.
Let's open the color palette and create a new color group.
Fill in the portrait based on the color scheme of the color group. During the color filling process, we continue to use the direct selection tool to fix the imperfect details. Maintain visual coordination during coloring. Use colors with high saturation as much as possible to bring visual impact to a certain extent.
3. Add a dot pattern
The dot pattern adds texture to the portrait. You don't have to cover the entire image with a pattern. It looks rough and a little more delicate. You need to find the part to add the pattern and then select this part, add a new pattern fill to the appearance.
For example, I add a dot pattern to the background first. Select the background rectangle to enter the appearance panel. In the lower left corner of the panel, click Add new color. Then, click the down arrow in the filled box to display the color palette. If you do not find the dot pattern, click the icon in the upper right corner, [open the color palette> pattern> basic graph> Basic Graph point] and select the dot pattern that you think is appropriate. In this example, I select a pattern dot of 10 dpi 30%, which is related to the document size I set.
The dot looks too dark and seems a little overwhelming. Let's go to the transparency panel and change the pattern to overlay. Of course, make sure that the dot pattern fill is selected in the appearance panel. In the same way, I decorated the entire screen with a pattern. Of course, in some places, I keep the image as it is, such as the skin of a person.
IV. Artistic paint styling
Outlines the outline shape of the drawn object, which can highlight the features of the painted object and increase the volume of the object. Here we will use the art brush. There are many art paint brushes by default in AI, but this time I hope I can create one by myself. This step is very simple.
Draw a circle and use the anchor tool to click the two anchor points to convert the circle into a spindle shape.
Drag the shape to the paint brush panel. A new paint brush option box is displayed, where you can select an art paint brush.
The settings of the art paint brush can be kept as default.
Start to use a paint brush to draw some details and outlines of the character. You can create a new layer and close the previous fill layer. Add details by referring to the source image. The lines of the art paint brush do not have to be close to the original edge, so that the entire picture is natural and smooth, highlighting the natural hand-drawn style.
In this case, you can create a cut mask to make the image into the desired shape.
All right, the above information is all the content shared by the detailed design of the pop art style portrait effect painting tutorial for the users of this software of Illustrator, users now see that the production method is very clear here, so everyone will follow the small series of tutorials to draw their favorite pop art style portraits.
