nice color use!

Kinect Portraits

Portraits made by Mike Pelletier with the hardware Kinect (xbox 360) Microsoft released a few years ago.  The Kinect was used as a 3d scanner. By moving the Kinect camera around the subject the software constantly updates to create a detailed 3d model. Within a couple minutes you can get a fairly detailed model from a sitting subject

 

 see more at: mikepelletier.nl/Kinect-Portraits-1 

Iain Macarthur

Very talented young illustrator from the UK.  His style could be described as surreal and unique in its own way. He create portraits using mostly pencil, watercolors and pigment pens  in a unusual way by embellishing patterns and watercolor effects into the portrait to give a vivid explosion effect. He makes the faces from something plain to something entirely bizarre and wonderful at the same time due to the stunning amount of details.

http://www.behance.net/iainmac

Jen Mann

for more info:

 http://www.jenmann.com/

speed painting - Jen Mann http://vimeo.com/55544289