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Published: 2006-02-21 06:28:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 71370; Favourites: 510; Downloads: 5943
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Here is a portrait of the lovely Keira Knightley. This was done all in Adobe Illustrator CS2 using mostly the Gradient Mesh tool.Her face, not including the hair, is all one mesh, but everything else is broken into parts. It's the first time I've ever done a whole face with one mesh, learned a few things along the way!
You can see the mesh outlines in my scraps section here: [link]
Let me know what you think!
UpdateThought some of you may be interested in the tech details on this:
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My first thought was, oh, well, okay, he's including photographs. Β Then when I magnified it I could see that there were some slight differences, but the effect is still awesome. Β This is the work of a talented and trained person spending hundreds of hours on an image. Β Wow.
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great job,butshe had a navel piercing in the original one
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this is just amazing how did you get the wrinkles in the pants and do the hands im stuck on that this is just amazing great job on this
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Thanks, it was a lot of trial and error to get things the way I wanted. Still not totally satisfied ...
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i love it alot
bye the way how did you get the shirt to look all wrinkling and good
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Can't say i would have thought of doing a full face with one mesh. It came out amazing. I may try that some time.
Think it's time for me to dust off the ole Illustrator since it's been a few years. 
Thanks for the inspiration man!
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One mesh for the face was daunting at first but with some planning it turned out well.
Thank you very much for the comments, I really appreciate it.
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Planning? What is that? Lol
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ItΒ΄s amazing, what a great job, congratulations.
IΒ΄m trying the gradient mesh right now, itΒ΄s very tricky, but IΒ΄ll keep trying until I get the idea.
And looking the outline of your work helped me, thanks for posting it too.
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Thanks!
Yeah, keep after that gradient mesh tool and you'll get the hang of it.
I posted a tutorial over at my website [link]
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Yeah, your site is really cool, itΒ΄s on my favourites!!!
Thanks for taking your time doing this tutorial! ^^
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omg this is so... amazing
it really looks real, gotta love the skin
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THIS IS AMAZING!
I really thought this was a photograph [of Keira with lots of makeup] until i clicked to see the picture in full view.
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this is gorgeous! i tired the gradient mesh on a person...failed...lol...
it's hard...but it's an awesome tool!
i love this pic! seriously! it's done so well and looks just like Keira!
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Thank you very much.
Yeah the gradient mesh tool can be tricky but if you stick with it you'll get the hang of it.
Thanks again!
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hold on.... you just drew it all on adobe illustartor, i've just begun using the product and can't do anything nearly as cool....
oh, and i absolutely love your focus, and you are right, she is lovely... : )
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I did draw it all out in illustrator... however, it really is just glorified tracing.
The gradient mesh is an amazing tool that can give very realistic results.
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i dont care what you did, it looks exactly like her... i asked my friend what was a picture and what wasn't and she thought that it was....
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Where can you find that info in Illustrator?
I've been looking all over for it
Btw, I saw your flyer (at least the one with Keira, cut in half with the linework on the left side) to the seminare.
Looked interesting 
good job
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Thanks, yeah I let them use it for their flyer. Glad it looked good.
I always have to search to find the command that shows all the info, can't recall at the moment. Sorry about that...
Thanks again.
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wow what magnificent job!!omfg I'm trying to learn to use the mesh tool didn't know you could make an image like that using it!!! really great job!!
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Thank you very much! I have a tutorial of how I use the mesh tool at my web site: [link]
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ooooh thank you! I see you have one for making layouts that is awesome too since Im interested in that too thank you thank you
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I can't find the apt phrase about such a great work !
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