What's this style of artwork called?

Use an image search?

General Illustration of Photographic Manipulation.

Basic edited photograph in a cutout style.

Photoshop?

If you rotate it to the left it looks a bit like Jimi Hendrix

F Me,. It's Jimmy Hendrix 🙂

It's an indexed colour image converted from a photograph.
It's a technique often used to classify satellite images to show homogeneous areas.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/web-design-in/0596001967/ch19s02.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIndexed%20color%E2%80%9D%20means%20that%20the,%E2%86%92%20Mode%20%E2%86%92%20Color%20Table.

It’s been live-traced in Adobe illustrator.

You take a photographic image, drop it into illustrator, then press live trace > expand and it produces a vectorised image of the photograph

There is absolutely zero skill involved and that will be reflected in how much it’s worth.

It's best for the Charity Shop or the tip IMO. So that don't matter.

I would paint over it and paint something original on it.

But if (most important) if you like it, put it on the wall 🙂 Enjoy it 🙂

If you rotate it to the left it looks a bit like Jimi Hendrix

That's still not right as the guitar is upsidedown.

That’s still not right as the guitar is upsidedown.

😀

You all weren't there, man! It's called PSYCHEDELIC!

Posterized Image is the Photoshop term.

There is absolutely zero skill involved

Oh yeah?! So why has the artist/Photoshopper/Computer Operator/paintbynumberser... signed the artwork then?!
It's worf faaaasands I reckon. Antique's Roadshow it!

Theres an 'artist' who sells his work in the same gallery as me who does this. He drops a local landscape into Illustrator, image traces it, prints it out, frames it, then sells A3 prints for £65 a pop. Sells plenty too.

I've got a kind of grudging respect for it, to be honest. If you can do that and get away with it, then why are mugs like me spending hours drawing everything up properly? 😂

For those remotely interested, this is how easy it is

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/illustrator/using/image-trace.html

You can tell something has been livetraced by how jagged the lines are. There are no smooth curves to the vectors, compared to something like this which I did a few weeks ago. Similar thing really...A portrait of British motocross champion Shaun Simpson, using a limited colour palette, drawn up (properly) in illustrator, printed at a metre square onto alloy plate...

drawn up (properly) in illustrator

By that do you mean you hand-trace the outlines with the curvy line tool (is it 'nodes'?) instead of the software itself doing all the selection?

Love that mx portrait 👏

I like the style but I couldn't have the MX picture, I'd spend the whole time waiting for the bike to fall over

I've done a couple, using photoshop posterize and then a using a projector to transfer to the canvas.

By that do you mean you hand-trace the outlines with the curvy line tool (is it ‘nodes’?) instead of the software itself doing all the selection?

They're called bezier curves. The important word in that being 'curves' and are defined to 'control points' which I try to keep to an absolute minimum to create smoother, simpler artwork

Live Trace is just a really blunt instrument. All those jagged, pointy angles set me twitching. The end results are horrible!

If I'm drawing an illustration, I tend to use a selection of different photos for reference, then the final drawn image will be a kind of amalgamation of them all. That was the case with this one.

Heres the most recent one that I did the other day. Some bloke from the isle of Man

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And another from the same series as the MX image. Its for a motorsports events company that has pink as its corporate colour

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Apologies for hijacking the thread to just blatantly plug my work 😂

They’re called bezier curves

That's the badger.

That’s the badger

No, that's definitely the Manx Missile.

I am awaiting my delivery of a Binners original.  Its an investment!  I'm gonna be rich!

Here is a simple wallpaper image for you all 🙂

Xara and Inkscape for this one.

Handdrawn, I like doing these images 🙂

and a PNG if you prefer...

Originally, pre-Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDraw, etc, it was called posterisation, and it was a photographic process. Basically a mono greyscale image would be reduced to a series of solid mono images representing a single shade of grey, or other colour, the shortest exposure would be printed in the darkest tone, going on to the longest exposure printed as the lightest tone. When I was doing a course in design for print in Bristol, one of the print lecturers printed a set of illustrations of one of the tors on Dartmoor, in different variations of greys, and I scrounged a couple one of which I’ve got on my wall. They’re printed in litho, as solid colour, no half tone at all each shade was done using a single plate directly exposed from the equivalent piece of film - I think it took eight or nine passes through the machine. Silkscreen would give a similar effect.

This will give you an idea of how it looks, sorry about the unavoidable reflections on the glass:

That’s still not right as the guitar is upsidedown.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I tried something similar by freehand and painting. It took so long I only did one 😂

I liked it enough to put it on me wall anyway.

I am awaiting my delivery of a Binners original. Its an investment! I’m gonna be rich!

No need to wait - just download and print!... 🙂

Recently auctioned by Sotheby's... so you never know 😀

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/rock-roll-history-presley-to-punk-n09160/lot.56.html