photoshop poirot

Mark smith style 

more Mark Smith style 

Original photoshop trace 

i have looked at mark Smith for my artist reference, he focuses a lot on the negative space being used to block colour the image and then he creates this print effect on top of the line work to pick out detail and various important features. the top image i have done of poirot mimics this style as i have left his hands and face un- coloured and used different layers of his jacket to give this ripped effect, i also used various rubbers in photoshop to erase certain sections. the block colour in the background was just a few shades lighter than his tie, there are a lot of blues in his suit and tie so i thought the background should reflect this and it also will help to compliment the image.

messing around with backgrounds in the style of mark Smith, i like colouring him with this messy style because the background line work really shows through the weak colouring yet you are still able to make out the correct colour pallet.