Torn-paper collage portrait of a smiling man built from blue, white and black newspaper clippings, on a green newsprint background

Collage Portraits

Shout-out to Brady Erickson, the creator of TextureLabs. I learned about collage effect from his tutorial and got the textures from his website.

These art pieces were created in Adobe Photoshop and used as meaningful gifts for friends. While making them, I found that close-up portraits work best for this technique, so I mainly used them.

Collage portrait of a smiling person in a cap, made from red, black and white torn magazine and newspaper scraps on a black background

Collage portrait of a smiling man in blue, white and black torn newsprint on a light blue newspaper background, with a "Team Garmin" clipping at the bottom

Collage portrait of a smiling man in blue, teal and black torn paper on a light newspaper background, with "Diesel" and "Park" text scraps

Collage portrait of a man wearing round glasses, assembled from red, white, blue and black torn magazine clippings

Collage portrait of a smiling dark-haired man in warm red and tan torn newsprint on a pale newspaper background

Collage portrait of a person tilting their head up, in orange, red and black torn paper with a blue lower section and a "Compliments" clipping

Collage portrait of an excited man looking up, his face in red and white torn newsprint against a blue collage of vintage airplanes and cars

Close-up collage portrait of a face in pink, red, black and white torn paper clippings

Collage portrait of a laughing woman in golden-yellow and white torn paper, framed by coral-pink torn-paper foliage on a black background

Collage portrait of a woman with wavy hair looking down, in gold, orange and white torn newsprint on a black background

Collage portrait of a man's face in pink, red and black torn paper with teal accents and an "it 1969!" clipping

Collage portrait of a smiling man in a bucket hat, made from blue, white and black torn newsprint, with an "Air Company" clipping