I wanted to paint a portrait of Mr Cumberbatch when I saw him play Khan in the last Star Trek. You might know him in the BBC show “Sherlock“, the modern Sherlock Holmes adaptation. It took about 3 hours. Painting was done entirely in Photoshop with Wacom Tablet.
The photos I used for reference I found on Wikimedia (CC), I leaned more toward his Sherlock hairstyle.
After doing a mess of speed paintings, my portfolio shouted in agony “you fool, FINISH your paintings for pete’s sake”. Always listen to your portfolio.. or it might attack you when your asleep in bed.
I pre ordered Amnesia: The Michine for Pigs. It’s out now. It’s very late. I don’t know it I should start it tonight. :O
Let me know what you think of the painting.
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I think its definitely one of your better ones! I like the dark shadows and the depth it has more over other portraits you did. It does have a bit of a cartoonish hint to it (around the cheeks), but i think it really suits it and it looks awesome!
thank you Chatty Owl 🙂
This is great! I think you did very well on this one. It can be very hard to draw Benedict correctly, but you managed it!
Thank you so much. :D.
No problem C:
Very nice work—the tones are really good; it’s hard to keep a balance sometimes in greyscale, but you succeeded admirably!
Thank you very much :). I find starting a painting in greyscale helps me alot. Color sometimes plays tricks on my eyes.