Portrait Tone

Portrait

A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood, this type of presentation may be chosen. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer, but portrait may be represented as a profile and 3/4.

Tint, shade and tone

In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. A tone is produced either by mixing a color with gray, or by both tinting and shading. Mixing a color with any neutral color reduces the chroma, or colorfulness, while the perceived hue can be affected slightly.

portrait

Noun

1. A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
2. An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.

Verb

1. To portray; to draw.

tone

Noun

1. A specific pitch.
2. (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.

Verb

1. to give a particular tone to
2. to change the colour of