Portrait Illustration Techniques with Illustrator and Photoshop

Overview

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In this class, I’m going to talk about what I’ve prepared for you throughout the course. You will start by learning light and shadow techniques using the tone on tone technique. I'm going to show you how to make color passages by applying hatches with the brushes I will create in Adobe Illustrator. We are going to draw a pop culture character applying these techniques to practice before the final project. For the project, I will explain how to create a vector portrait in Adobe Illustrator of an icon of Brazilian popular music from a photo researched on Google, and how this choice of the theme came about. And, finally, I will teach you how to apply textures to treat colors in Adobe Photoshop and post on social media. I will also comment on why I will use these two programs in this course.”

In this video lesson Rogério Puhl addresses the topic: What will we do in the course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Portrait Illustration Techniques with Illustrator and Photoshop. Explore the possibilities of starting from a photo to create illustrated portraits that are full of personality.

Partial transcription of the video

“What we will do in the course In this lesson, we’ll talk about what we’re going to do in this course. In this course, you will learn how to make a vector illustration in Illustrator from the first moments to the publication on social networks. Illustrator is a powerful tool for creating vector illustrations. What stands out in Illustrator is the ease we have to organize the file in layers like we do in Photoshop. Another thing I really like about this program it is the facility we have to select similar objects. This helps us a lot in projects like the ones we will do in this course, becaus...”

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Course summary for: Portrait Illustration Techniques with Illustrator and Photoshop

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (210)
• 4472 students
• 4 units
• 21 lessons (5h 2m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration