Hedcut Portrait Illustrations - Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation

Hedcut portrait illustrations are extremely versatile and the range of clients who benefit from a portrait in the hedcut illustration style are as varied as they are interesting.I have worked with Jim Guerard at Guerard.com for a number of years.He is a talented designer who has as a client the California Indian tribe known asthe Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation.Jim has hired me over the years to create portraits of the tribe in the hallmark WSJhedcut style that I pioneered years ago at the Journal. Many of the portraitillustrations went into a memorial tribute wall installation. Here is one of them, anda shot of the finished piece…Aside from these hedcut type portraits, I have been commissioned to create somemore, full-figure portraits of a few of these nation members, along the lines of whatI do for Worth magazine these days. Here they are: