ALL CHANGE - David Bowie Portraits

For the David Bowie portraits project I first started planning my looking up notable achievements and moments in his life that I could use to illustrate, as well as some of his iconic looks and styles over the years.
Many sketches were just quick doodles so I could try and get used to David Bowie's features, soon after I just wanted to jump right in and start my main portraits!

These are the pages I sketched out/took notes on. 

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When we had all of our Bowie Portraits finished, we then had to pick a favourite. This was the piece I choose as my favourite. The image is from a video game called Omikron, in which David Bowie provided his voice and face to the character Boz, A revolutionary fugitive who exists completely in a computer. I had the idea to use a collage style for this piece as it would fit the look of the character. The paper used was from a phone book that I then painted over in watered-down acrylic paint to make it yellow. The face and background was drawn with pencils then outlined with a fine liner. This is my favourite piece as I think it's the one that looks most like Bowie and the fact it turned out much better than I expected. The collage was a bit tricky to do as this piece was about 10 inches across in size, although I think it was effective in creating a computer generated style look. 

Under Pressure - Berol Pens and Copic Manga Markers 

Aladdin Sane - Paper, Sweet wrappers and biro

Biker Bowie - Biro 

60 Second Sharpie Sketch

2 Minute Pencil Sketch

Classic CD Bowie - Permanent Markers & Crayon

Pixel Bolt - Coloured Pencils

Jareth the Goblin King - Coloured Pencils 

Picasso Bowie - Oil Pastels on brown paper

Bowie, His Royal Highness - Copic Manga Markers & Biro

Halloween Jack - Watercolour Paints

The Thin White Duke - Black Poster Paint

Continuous Line Drawing Ziggy - Biro & Coloured Pencils