Three Portraits for Personal Computing

All Images, c. Kevin SproulsThe magazine, Personal Computing, hired me to do a series of three portraits for featured interviews. Nowadays, the publication is known simply as PC. https://www.pcmag.com For these portraits, I employed a creative variation of the illustration style I pioneered at The Wall Street Journal. Aside from detailed backgrounds, I used a lot of solid black fields, to utilize to full black-and-white spectrum.My first subject was Mitchell Kapor...Pretty straightforward background here. Aside from stippling, I made liberal use of line work and cross-hatching. My next subject would get a bit more intricate...This is John Scully, one-time head of Apple. Even for me, this is an amazingly detailed piece of work! You can tell I had enormous fun creating that background texture.Lastly, a portrait of Michelle Preston, in situ and on the page. The hair was the challenge in this drawing...The real trick with these illustrated portraits was the range of tone -- from solid black to white. I was competing with the bold, solid typography, and had to compliment the page design. Here is the portrait in detail...I hoope you've enjoyed these 'alternative' portrait drawings. I enjoyed exploring the graphic quality of this technique.