Portrait Illustration Techniques with Illustrator and Photoshop

Overview

“ℹ - Illustration based on Daryan Dornelles photography. Model Chico Buarque. Now that you are ready and know the logic of the vector illustration using the tone-on-tone techniques, it's time to make the basis of our portrait. Let's start by vectorizing our character by drawing all the basic shapes of our portrait.”

In this video lesson Rogério Puhl addresses the topic: Vectorization: portrait base, 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

“Base Vectorization of portrait In this lesson, we'll look at how to vectorize our character. For this, we will use the image we selected in the reference class. In this case, the photograph is by Daryan Dornelles, come on. We'll start at the bottom of the illustration and then make the face, our character's neck, body and hair. Let's check here in Units if it is in Centimeters. So let's create the format. I always work with A3, because it's a format that allows me to a good resolution for printing. It's not too heavy to work in Photoshop, thinking ahead. So let's put 30 cm by 42 here, that ...”

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Course summary for: Portrait Illustration Techniques with Illustrator and Photoshop

• Level: Beginner
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• 4472 students
• 4 units
• 21 lessons (5h 2m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration