Day 3 of 7 - The topic for Illustration Friday this week is "Legendary".This week I am posting a new "Legendary" themed illustration everyday for all 7 days!
Legend #3 - Al Pacino
I was beyond excited when I was commissioned to illustrate this portrait montage of one of my all time favorite actors, Al Pacino. My client had selected 3 of Pacino's film characters that they wanted used in the montage. They appear as follows...
Top - Tony Montana (Scarface)
Middle - Carlito Brigante (Carlito's Way)
Bottom - Michael Corleone (The Godfather part 3).
I found great reference for Tony and Michael but Carlito was tough to find. In the end I simply took some digital screen captures on my computer from the DVD and used those as reference.
This was a blast to work on and it was really tough to hand over the original when it was all done!
Colored pencil on tinted paper.
By the way, with regards to Michael Corleone, I offered my client the option of using young Michael from part The Godfather part 2 (way cooler in my opinion). However my client wanted to capture the arc going from young Pacino (Tony) to middle age (Carlitio) and finally to old (Michael).
Be sure to stop back tomorrow for another extraordinary legend!
Thanks for playin' along everybody!
N Lark
P.S.
www.illustrationfriday.com is a website that posts topics each week for artists from around the world to interpret, illustrate and post.
6 comments:
i love the godfather movies. they are such a wonderful set of films!!! I was excited when I saw the Al Pacino montage
I just had to become a follower. Your stuff is so cool. Great Pacino. I missed yesterdays.. I gotta go check it out right now. Hey I'm lucky follower #13!
Hi Nathanael...wow...I love these....great work...I was just about to say "hey where is today's piece" when I get here and it is fab!
nice work!!!
Nice and varied styleworks!
Very cool piece and well illustrated. I'm intrigued.
This is a brilliant illustration, i love the sepia tones. I can see why you didn't want to have to give the original up! Thanks for sharing your process / research for the characters. We have to be resourceful sometimes as illustrators / designers don't we? Good idea to pause the DVD do a screen shot! It is pretty impressive you are showing a new legend every day! I guess you have done a fair few portraits in the past? Thanks for your nice comment on my blog. Like the variety in your style.
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