Pictorial Portraits Using Digital Techniques

Overview

“You will learn how to create a digital illustration with Photoshop, but with a 100% traditional finish, using very powerful colors, incredible backgrounds and a very varied selection of resources to make your work seem handmade. And as a final project, from scratch, you will draw the magical and colorful Frida Kahlo, using the pictorial technique that I am going to teach you in this course. Can you imagine what the pearl girl would be like if Vermeer were a millennial? Or that Sorolla danced Bad Gyal?

In this video lesson Alex de Marcos García addresses the topic: What Will We Do in the Course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Pictorial Portraits Using Digital Techniques. Learn how to use Photoshop to create illustrations using pixels as brushstrokes.

Partial transcription of the video

“WHAT WE'LL DO IN THE COURSE In this course we'll do a digital illustration but with an organic and pictorial finish. This technique's increasingly requested by clients because it's putting art in fashion, but the incompatibility of traditional techniques with current times makes it very difficult to create these pieces. Combining the digital with a traditional finish is very appealing to clients and spectators. We live in a digital era, so painting is digital, but let's not forget that we are painters painting works of art. It's basically what we'll do in the course. We'll do illustrations ...”

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Course summary for: Pictorial Portraits Using Digital Techniques

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (703)
• 10126 students
• 4 units
• 23 lessons (3h 45m)
• 44 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Portrait Drawing