Digital Portraits with a Traditional Style in Photoshop
Warm Up Exercises
A course by Daniel Ibanez , Fine Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Warm Up Exercises
Overview
“In this lesson, we will practice the three-step process for painting in this style. You will do three structured exercises to help us understand each step. ”
In this video lesson Daniel Ibanez addresses the topic: Warm Up Exercises, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Portraits with a Traditional Style in Photoshop. Explore digital painting through a traditional lens by creating expressive portraits filled with texture.
Partial transcription of the video
“Warm Up Exercises In the previous lesson, I showed you what tools you'll need to be successful in this course and I introduced you to how to set up your digital workspace. In this lesson, I have some fun and simple exercises to help you warm up. These exercises are a fun introduction to my style of painting. It will help you focus on shape instead of line, value instead of color, and simplification instead of complexity. Let's get to it. The first thing we need to do is learn how to use the tools that I have created for this lesson, and all the lessons, that we will use in this class. They ...”
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Course summary for: Digital Portraits with a Traditional Style in Photoshop
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Daniel Ibanez
A course by Daniel Ibanez
Daniel Ibanez is a fine artist and illustrator from Colorado, US. He grew up with a mother and grandmother who cultivated his intrinsic passion for art and began drawing before he could walk. He was also taught by Disney artist Ray Venilla as a child. Daniel was part of his first public exhibition and sold his first still-life painting at just 16 years old. He went on to win numerous awards and scholarships, and was accepted into established galleries before going on to study a degree in teaching art at university. While studying, he was featured in Southwest Art Magazine as one of America’s top young artists.
Since then, Daniel has hosted a TED Talk and made the Google+ recommended users list, through which he amassed 1.5 million followers on the platform. Using a variety of artistic mediums, he has worked on everything from magazine and newspaper features to book covers and advertising projects. In 2020, he was also awarded the Kevin Workman Sponsorship for promising artists and creative professionals.
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