Portrait Project: Client Interview Based Research.

Pop Art
My client being an artist herself has interest in a certain style of art, this being pop-art it would make sense for her portrait to perhaps be done in a simular style in that it will then portray some of her own personal interest aswell as physically resmbling her own appearance. Allowing some of her personality to blend with the portrait.

However I am planning on making this portrait animated. Though minimalistically, so it still represents a portrait in some light, it will merely be breathing and blinking etcetera. This will take a while longer and I need to see if Pop-Art will be compatable with animation in a short time-frame.

This image shows how most of the picture would be one flat colour, and how the shading can be achieved by using only two tones of the same colour in a small dotting fashion. I believe that since the animation I intend to create isn't overly complex that this would work well.

This one alternativly shows that the whole of areas could be dots, and using blank space to represent highlights. However, I feel this would not only take longer to animate having to replicate so many various dots in each frame, but would not be fitting.

This one shows shading in a monotone like stle which works very well and is still clear, Also how to get highlights in red hair which will be useful considering my client had vibrant dyed red hair. At this point I am considering either this style, or the first I looked at unsing minimal dots as a shading technique.

The reason I have posted the picture above is that this classes as pop-art and my client expressed an interest in punk and rock aswell as pop-art, so perhaps she would prefer something that incorperates both. I also found this image below which is quite detailed in a few colour and punk/rock syle.

I quite like this one to, plus it shows a good colour combination for me to use as red will indefiantly be the main colour used in the portrait, it being the colour of her hair and her favorite colour.

I shall endeavour to ask the client more specifically on the syle of pop-art she prefers and show her these examples before I research down a route which takes me the wrong direction.