CASE STUDIO: PORTRAITS - Part I
Article by Irene Laschi PART I: THE INSPIRATION What's behind a project like PORTRAITS ? I've always loved drawing portraits, but I've always used traditional media on paper or digital ones that simulates them, like I did in this project . I had 4 exceptional models (my students Alessia, Susanna, Azzurra e Letizia) and I wanted to explore new way of drawing and coloring portraits in Photoshop. The inspiration came from two different past artists I've recently discovered: the illustrator Leopoldo Metlicovitz (Trieste 1868 - Ponte Lambro 1944) and the painter John Duncan (Dundee 1866 - Edinburgh 1945). They're not related to each other, but they worked in the same period - the years of the Art Nouveau. Leopoldo Metlicovitz I've been studying traditional printing methods and I'm obsessed with chromolithography, the printing method used for late 19th century advertising posters, like the ones made for Moulin Rouge by Toulouse-Lautrec. To c