The Portrait of Korean Actress HAN GA IN

I just finished today (June 23, 2009) for this portrait. I challenged against myself to draw a portrait only at Adobe Illustrator. I had done so far by doing this crazy thing. First of all, I got this Actress’s original picture from Google Search (what we used to call it “Google gave it to me”). Again, first, I thought she was “Song Hye Kyo” (Korean Actress) but my girlfriend told me that she was not, she was “Han Ga In”. Anyway, I hit it again.

I used Pen Tool, Gradient, Transparency, Gaussian Blur and Wrap Tool for the tones and hair. The problem I encountered for this portrait was saving time. Because of many layers and huge canvas size (nearly 4000 in width).

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The Portrait of Song Hye Kyo

My latest illustration for the portrait of Korean Actress Song Hye Kyo (in Dec, 2008). I was not a fun of that actress and Korean movies. I didn’t even know who she was when working on this picture later I knew from my friend that she was a Korean drama star.

I saw that picture at Internet image search and it’s so fascinating to me. She was so beautiful, smart and look very calm in appearance.

I used only Adobe Illustrator 10 and mouse (I don’t even have a pen tablet  in this moment .. may be I will have it soon) to sketch on her photo. It is a little bit difficult for it because it’s much more detail for the tones. I used Gaussian Blur almost all for the tones and Wrap Tool for some windy hair effect.

It took almost 7 days at my late evenings after my office. I still owed to do some of my idea for this illustration and much more will come to be more lively on her picture.

Tool: Only on Adobe Illustrator Version 10
Image Address: http://www.blike.net/en/node/3826