Portraits Using Powerpoint

Hello BoredPanda!

I’m Joven Barcelo, 27 years old from the Philippines, and I make art using MS PowerPoint.

By profession, I’m a licensed engineer and a researcher in our country’s science ministry. But I also dabble in trainings and in preparing posts for our office’s social media page, in which I use PowerPoint most of the time.

When the pandemic hit early 2020 and our office adopted work-from-hone atrangement, I found myself with a lot of downtime. To save myself from boredom, I tried exploring PowerPoint, challenging myself on what I can do with it. I’m only using a low-end laptop so I don’t expect that it can run other softwares like Adobe Illustrator so I just use PPT because that’s what I have.

So I started with cartoon characaters, then renowned buildings and structures in our country, then cars, and now, I try doing portraits and other famous paintings.

I still enjoy doing these artworks and share them in my personal social media pages for my friends to see.

The Birth of Venus (head detail) by Sandro Botticelli in Powerpoint.

La Gioconda or the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci in Powerpoint.

My study of a head of a horse, again in Powerpoint.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, in Powerpoint.

A little behind the scenes of what it looks like with the shapes and elements used higlighted.

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