Pictorial Portraits Using Digital Techniques

Overview

“We will clean up our sketch collage and we will see how to make a shadow map and why it is so important. If we want to create an interesting environment, decoration will be our strong point. ”

In this video lesson Alex de Marcos García addresses the topic: Sketch to Line: Shadow Map 1, 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

“SKETCH TRACING AND SHADOW MAP In this lesson we'll go from the collage sketch to a traced sketch. To do so we'll trace it using modern tools. We'll also look at the shadow map and how it can help to illuminate our illustration. Finally, elements like the decoration, that will make our illustration really rich. Before committing the crime and starting to trace, I'll talk about this book, "A History of Pictures", by David Hockney and Martin Gayford. In it they explain the whole history of art and how technology has helped many artists who are now acclaimed, like Caravaggio, for example. In th...”

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Course summary for: Pictorial Portraits Using Digital Techniques

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (703)
• 10125 students
• 4 units
• 23 lessons (3h 45m)
• 44 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Portrait Drawing