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The Celebrity Portrait Paintings of Sheridan Johns

The Celebrity Portrait Paintings of Sheridan Johns

on Jun 9th 2012 with 18 comments

Australian digital painter, Sheridan Johns has a talent for producing fantastic celebrity portraits using Photoshop. In this article, we will feature some of our favorite works from her portfolio. Let’s take a look!

Please Say Hello to Me

Avatar – Quaritch

Hit-Girl

Tron Legacy – Game On | Tutorial

The Accountant – Drive Angry

Elementary

Reservoir Dogs in 3D

Robert Downey Jr

Robert De Niro

Kim Coates – Sons of Anarchy

Jeff Bridges

Nic Cage – Drive Angry

Amber Heard – Drive Angry

Sean Bean Portrait

Robert Knepper

Obligatory Johnny Depp Painting

Michael Madsen

Dr Lightman v Dr House

 
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  • Jorinda

    Sheridan Johns is an amazing artist. I watch her on Deviant Art, and her work always blows me away!

  • https://www.facebook.com/kiodour Kiodour

    Great work indeed :)

  • mohamed

    i cant see painting here..its real

  • Andrew

    With computers and graphics software able to do almost anything with a photograph these days. It’s virtually impossible to tell if they are not just manipulated photo’s of the real deal… Unless they can show that the image is not from an actual photograph.. then I cannot say they are that great.. If however, they are the real deal, then they are incredible

    • David

      Agree!

    • Jeff

      I agree Andrew. My thought after viewing these is that they are *too* good. They look so photo-real that it will cast doubt on the artist’s actual efforts. The other day I saw a “painting” on a popular photo site, and the artist claimed the work. A bit later someone posted a link to the source photo and it was near identical to the painting.

      I think a lot of people think Photoshop has a “make painting” button, (and in a way in kind of does), but I do know how difficult actual digital painting is from scratch. So, if this artist is doing nothing but looking at a reference photo and hand painting these from a blank canvas, then I’m amazed at the work.

      • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman
        Author

        Hey Jeff, Sheridan has written tutorials for us. You should take a look.

    • Jeff

      Thanks the for the heads up, Grant. I looked, and I’m impressed. Can’t wait to try and follow along, and hopefully learn something.

  • http://www.photoshop-plus.co.uk Photoshop Plus

    She has done some awesome work, Sheridan is a real inspiration to al digital artists.!

    I had the pleasure of interviewing her myself a while back.!

    http://www.photoshop-plus.co.uk/2011/04/04/interview-sheridan-johns/

  • Andrew

    Then I stand corrected. .but that’s the problem with digital art (photoshop) it’s difficult to see the wood for the trees these days.. but having read the interview, it’s obvious that these are not just straight copies of photo’s and that makes them not just incredibly realistic… but AWESOME works by a very talented artist. Thanks for posting the link to the interview.. very interesting reading

  • Brazz

    Amazing work! The only thing I have to point out is that the blood splatters look cheesy. The blood running down from Hit-Girl’s eye to cheek is glossy. And the blood would run over her mask not under it. That mask was pretty tight. The blood splatter on Cage looks like it was quickly slapped on by a photoshop paint brush. So much work went into the photo-realism of each piece yet she can’t get the blood right. Just sayin’.

  • Rahul Goyal

    Mr. Andrew this r digital paintings not manipulated photo…..I’m great fan of her art-work…..u can see the process on her deviantart page…yes they are really incredible

  • http://www.webgrafics.es/ miguel

    a great job really looks amazing :)

  • http://www.menacedesign.pl Artbeard

    Portrait of De Niro is killing me with it’s realism.

  • http://godsofart.com S3bY

    Sheridan is amazing! One of my favorite artists…

  • Vaibhav

    This work is just awesomeness itself!

  • Amber Tyler

    I like the painted onea but its obvious the mike madsen one isnt a painting. Its blur filters in some spots and the face shows pores. Half assed that one.