Portrait Illustration with Analog and Digital Techniques

Overview

“At this stage, we will focus on achieving an accurate outline using a lightbox or grid. To do it so, I will show you how to trace the outline of the face for the pencil drawing using a lightbox.”

In this video lesson Amy Pearson addresses the topic: Tracing the Outline, which is part of the Domestika online course: Portrait Illustration with Analog and Digital Techniques. Seamlessly combine graphite, watercolor, and Photoshop to create a stunningly lifelike portrait.

Partial transcription of the video

“Okay. In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to trace the outline of your portrait ready to make the sketch. In the last lesson, I showed you how to make the rough sketch in Photoshop. As you can see, we've printed it here. This is gonna really help us for the next section of our course, because we know how the layout's gonna be. printed all of the additional elements on this piece of paper here. Here we have the separately printed elements with plenty of space around them so we can sketch them all separately using the tracing paper or the light box. So here we've printed out the portrai...”

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Course summary for: Portrait Illustration with Analog and Digital Techniques

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (157)
• 2238 students
• 5 units
• 17 lessons (2h 43m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting