An Abstract Portrait is the priocess of distorting a portrait of someone or something, in whichever way you desire. There is no way to do this correct, it is entirely up to the creator.
Inorder to make this, I found an image of myself and an image of some shapes, it could have been circles, triangles or squares. I opened both images in Photoshop, then copied and pasted the shape image onto the portrait (Ctrl+A/Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V). I used the magic wand to select part of the shape, then clicked onto the portrait layer, then used Free Transform (Ctrl+T) to distort it by rotating the shape.
The reason I got the white lines on the image, was because the image I used to distort was not a high resolution image. I like the circle image the best, because it looks the most abstract. For the second image I used a small square shape with circles and lines inside of it, so I don't think it worked very well. I like the third one because I used a unique shape, however I dislike the white lines in this.
I made the image on the left in Photoshop, by using the Polygonal Lassoo tool, and selecting parts of my face that I wanted to repeat. I then copied it as a new layer, and duplicated that layer as many times as I wanted. Then I started moving the different layers about until I was happy with the composition, then used the eraser to get rid of borders.
Once I was happy with the final composition, I added a new layer, put it under the others, and filled it black. Then I used the lassoo around my figure, then copied it as a new layer, deleted the original image, then used the eraser to make the edges straighter. I think this image is very strange, and it was my first time attempting an abstract portrait not using shapes as a base, so I think I did well.
Existing Images That I Like:
The 4 images of the nude man were created by an artist called Michal Macku, he calls the technique 'Gellage', due to it being a mixture of collage and gelatin. The technique consists of transfering the photograph onto photographic paper. Then a transparent gelatin is painted onto the image, and this gives him the ability to reshape the images, and pull them about. The finished image would be a flat surface.
