Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style
Shading and Details 1
A course by Celeste Vargas Hoshi , Illustrator and Visual Artist
Joined July 2020
About the video: Shading and Details 1
Overview
“Once our sketch is ready, we will work on the details. In this lesson I will explain the brushes and layer functions that I use to paint. I like to build with colors, I will teach you to work the layers one on top of the other to work on the effects of color and volumetry. In addition, we will ensure that the art nouveau characteristics are maintained.”
In this video lesson Celeste Vargas Hoshi addresses the topic: Shading and Details 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style. Create a digital illustration in Photoshop based on a photograph, experimenting with a current and customized version of modernism.
Partial transcription of the video
“Shading and Details Art nouveau images give the impression of being completely flat. I’ll show you several brushes to achieve this volumetric effect. So, I’ve put in place all the elements I wanted in my composition, thanks to my brainstorming and the mood board we created, but I think it looks too heavily loaded. It’s fine for an art nouveau image to have many elements but there’s no need to exaggerate. I’m going to get rid of and clean up some elements before moving on to the details. Also, something I noticed a moment ago is that the colors are uneven. Think back to the original color pa...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration

Celeste Vargas Hoshi
A course by Celeste Vargas Hoshi
Celeste Vargas is an illustrator with extensive experience in the editorial field. She has worked with renowned publishers like SM, Editorial Xilófono, and Estruendomudo, with which she published her last book Los Juguetes Perdidos de Hans Christian Andersen (The Lost Toys of Hans Christian Andersen).
She currently specializes in Art Nouveau and has introduced the style into her pieces with great mastery. The Nikkei people, feminism, and LGBTQI+ rights are all recurring themes in her work. Some of her pieces such as contemporary drawings, prints, and an art book have been exhibited in Peru, Mexico, and Japan
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