Jack, revised

by Matthew | Feb 8, 2024 | art, entertainment, illustration

Revised portrait of Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance from Stanley Kubrick's film, "The Shining".

I had painted a portrait of Jack Nicholson from “The Shining” a while back; it never matched my original intent. I could not get this effect to work in Photoshop. After some more recent illustations, I decided to go back and update this portrait of Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance from Stanley Kubrick’s film, “The Shining”, to my original intent.

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