These portraits were drawn in Adobe Illustrator version 10. In the top squares you can see each of the polygons (shapes) that I had to draw with my computer mouse. This is what the image looks like with no color added. After a shape is drawn, I fill it with color. The color can consist of blends, solids and transparencies. These are overlapped and layered for other variations of tone and shape. A lot like airbrush but less messy and always plenty of undos! -- Laurie McAdam