Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style
Shading and Details 3
A course by Celeste Vargas Hoshi , Illustrator and Visual Artist
Joined July 2020
About the video: Shading and Details 3
Overview
“We continue this process by cleaning and adding detail to the tree in the background.”
In this video lesson Celeste Vargas Hoshi addresses the topic: Shading and Details 3, 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 I’ve reduced Saturation to see the background elements without them distracting me. And now I’ll start cleaning up and drawing the branches of this tree around the main figure. I forgot that I’d left Opacity set to 50%. Opacity and Flow should both be set to 100%. I should also select the correct layer, “tree.” That’s why it helps a lot, as I’ve constantly repeated, to name our layers well. Look at how many layers we’ve worked with. If they weren’t named, it would be really easy to mess up. “Composition skeleton” alone has a whole bunch of layers. The sketch, the faces, ...”
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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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