In this video, I will be telling you some fun facts about Pablo Picasso, while turning him into an anime character!
So as usual I'm going to be starting with basic shapes. A circle and then
using other really fast and rough sketch lines to map out his eyes, nose, mouth, ear, hair and clothes.
And now that my line work is done, I am going to create a new layer underneath this layer
and start coloring. What I do is I color the entire sketch except for the background and
then I open up the layer and select Alpha Lock. This allows me to color within the lines!
Some fun facts you may or may not know about Pablo Picasso was he was born in
Spain in 1881. He was raised there before moving to France in his adult life to work as an artist.
Before the age of 50 he was one of the most well-known names in modern art.
Picasso had an innate ability to produce works in a wide variety of styles which made his work so
well respected during his lifetime. As you can see, I'm using a second image of Picasso when he was
older to kind of get some reference for his skin tones. Now that I have all the basic stuff done
I'm going to start bringing in the shadows, highlights, and start putting in those details.
Picasso is best known to be one of the founders of Cubism, alongside George Braque. It became so
well known that in 1910 to 1920, when the movement was just getting started, other spin-off movements
stemmed from it, such as Futurism, Dada, and Constructivism. He's also credited with
inventing the constructed sculpture and co-inventing the collage art style.
He became a defining figure in the world of plastic arts, revolutionizing art for years to come!
Next I'm going to color in his hair and also add some highlights as well.
Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain. His full baptized name is Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan
Nepo Mucheno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santissima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso, which followed
traditional Andalusian customs that honored his past relatives and saints. His father was
a painter and art professor and was impressed with his son's work from a young age. His mother
claims that one of his first words was asking for a pencil, and once Picasso was 13 years old
his father reportedly vowed to give up painting believing his son had surpassed him.
I'm going to color in his coat and just clothes in general. I am using a different brush for his coat to create
a different texture, since in the reference photo it looks like a tweed coat and it has that type of
texture to it, so i'm trying to emulate that. When Picasso's seven-year-old sister passed away,
they moved to Barcelona where Picasso was admitted into an advanced arts program at the age of 13.
At 16, Picasso was admitted to the Royal Academy of San Fernando, the number one art school in Madrid
now currently functioning as an art gallery and museum. However Picasso wasn't a fan of
how traditional and formal the instruction was there, so he dropped out soon after attending.
Picasso's work and artistic journey is so well recorded because he became an artist at a very
young age due, to the shift in his work from a childish nature to a more mature one at age 13.
That's where it stated that his artistic career properly began. While realism was very ingrained
into his artwork, once introduced to symbolist influences, his work began to take on its own
modernist approach. He took a trip to Paris, France where he lived with the poet Max Jacob for a time.
He was taught French and was a starving artist for a short while, burning their own works for
heat at one point! Picasso's adult working life was spent in Paris, where his work has been divided
into different periods that show the different themes he experimented with. From 1901 to 1904 was
Picasso's Blue Period, where he would be affected by poverty and its influence on the society around him.
All his works during this period were in monochromatic blues and blue greens, one of his
most popular pieces being "La Vie" which depicted the inner torment of one of his late friends.
1904-1906 was Picasso's Rose Period, where he overcame some of his depression and found
some success. This period utilized a lot of pinks and oranges and was
overall far more cheery. During this period he also met a bohemian artist named Fernande Olivier.
She appeared in a multitude of paintings during this period.
From 1907 to 1909 was Picasso's African influence period, where he began to experiment with the
African style of depicting the human figure, and painting styles derived from the works of
Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was Picasso's first masterpiece,
changing the art world and its standards forever. This in turn was a turning point as
he found artistic freedom away from the traditional French influences.
From 1909 to 1919 was Picasso's Cubist Period, which followed directly after he painted
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The style that he and George Braque created was mainly done with muted colors and was
based on them taking apart objects and breaking them up into their base shapes. With his geometric
approach and techniques with color, Picasso changed art's direction with this movement alone.
And then I'm going to do the background. I am using this reference image for the background.
From 1919 and onwards became Picasso's period where he embraced all the styles he'd learned
throughout his life. Some of his most famous works, one of the most notable ones being Guernica
were created during this period of time. Picasso passed away at the age of 91 in 1973.
Throughout his long career he created over 20,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics and
other items such as costumes and theater sets. And now that I am done the background, I'm going
to write his name and just do a little tweaking here and there, and then I'm done the final image!
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