Michael and Kirk - portrait illustration for SNDBOX

SNDBOX commissioned me to create illustration for The Creative Crypto magazine.
In this article is a video that Michael and Kirk talk to each other with a glass of Bourbon. I had to make an illustration for this .
How it was made.
I was looking for a moment in the video that depicts this conversation.
I've saved more pictures. I took care of these:
It is communicated by the image that a dialog is happening here. Equal partners. Give back the mood that Bourbon means.
That is why I paid attention to the following:
Their posture, their facial expressions, gestures, body language.
I saved several frames. I'll show you some.
These explain how I selected.
Let's see the pictures I picked up from:
Not bad, but Michael is not active.
This is better. Michael is active, Kirk is also interested. It shows the mood of a real pleasant conversation. But I miss the Bourbon atmosphere. :)
Michael seems very active compared to Kirk.
Not bad. It's a real Bourbon dialogue. But Kirk's posture is a bit backward.
TADAAAAAM !!! :)
This is it! Perfect, balanced postures. Both parties act as equal partners. We have the Bourbonos atmosphere. :)
Let's start work!
For a portrait, use the lines carefully on the face. If there are many lines on the face, the person seems older.
The quality of the video was not too high, so in some details I had to improvise with Kirk. Several times I had to correct her mouth and eyes.
The rest of the body was not that difficult. I drew it.
The next step is the coloring.
I will write about this in my next post.
Thanks SNDBOX! :)
Thanks for pointing out the importance of choosing the right poses and mood.
I'd probably just drew them sitting and talking ;)
great art style @zsolt.vidak ..nailed it! :D
Thank you @rambai ! :)
really love the style , nice job!
Thank you! :)