Digital Portraits with a Traditional Style in Photoshop
Start with Big Shapes
A course by Daniel Ibanez , Fine Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Start with Big Shapes
Overview
“In this lesson, we will use simple lines to find the large shapes of the face and head. Our goal is to keep the lines angular and minimal. ”
In this video lesson Daniel Ibanez addresses the topic: Start with Big Shapes, 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
“ Start with Big Shapes Since you have your photo reference prepared, I'll show you how to use big shapes to sketch the complexities of the human face. Before we do that, let's talk about proportion a bit. Painting portraits is interesting as you need a lot more accuracy in your proportion and in your drawing skill than you would in doing a landscape or even architecture because if you mess up a bit, it will look like a person, but it won't look like that person. This is not a technical portrait class but more about feeling, texture, and brushwork. That said, we still don't want to miss ent...”
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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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