PAPERDOLLS

1. a paper or cardboard, usually two-dimensional, representation of the female human figure, used as a child’s toy, first known at the mid of the XVII century in France.
2. a connected series of doll-like figures cut from folded paper.

This is a pop-art vector portrait personal project. It started back at 2005 or 2006 but were evolving through the next years. This illustration series pass through the process of visual analysis, first with the use of traditional pencil drawing exercise that filters what I consider necessary to keep, to finally rendering a new character that sometimes belongs to a whole new reality and context.

The entire collection were on exhibit for about 2 years, from March 2010 to almost November of the same year and then were rotating in exhibits until June 2011.

All the illustrations starts from a reference photo (or many) that I pencil sketch on my own style and later after the pencils were scanned, I do some vector draw on Adobe Illustrator using the Pen-Tool and mouse-click. No tablets involved, nor tracing, no digital-filters or re-draws over a photo.