Pictorial Portraits Using Digital Techniques

Overview

“In this lesson we will paint the arms and hands. You will see the result of our spectacular color palette applied throughout the illustration.”

In this video lesson Alex de Marcos García addresses the topic: Color Palette and First Brush Strokes 4, 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

“COLOR PALETTE AND FIRST STROKES The face is done, so now we'll do the arms. We have a plain color, so we'll add lights in the direction of the arm. Shadows, a bit darker than this one. This area works really well. We'll use this shadow area to put it here as well and here where she rests her arm. And the hand. We'll add lights here. Around the fingers there's a lot of contrast. Imagine cylinders. We'll make it a bit red as this will be red later, the skirt. These first layers of color, we can apply them all at once. We'll now bring the lights out. We'll paint the bracelet. It would be in a ...”

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Course summary for: Pictorial Portraits Using Digital Techniques

• Level: Beginner
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• 10125 students
• 4 units
• 23 lessons (3h 45m)
• 44 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Portrait Drawing