Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style
Shading and Details 4
A course by Celeste Vargas Hoshi , Illustrator and Visual Artist
Joined July 2020
About the video: Shading and Details 4
Overview
“Now it is the turn of the flowers. I will begin to outline them taking into account the references of my mood board.”
In this video lesson Celeste Vargas Hoshi addresses the topic: Shading and Details 4, 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 Let’s see how we’re getting on. I’ll deselect the selection and slightly reduce Opacity so that it’s not too intense. How does it look now? That’s it. I think I’ll leave it there. Now, I’ll move on to the flowers. Remember that my mood board nudged me toward doing sakura flowers because of my intention to reflect her Japanese heritage, which is also mine, since she’s my grandmother. Here, I have some examples of flowers that I found in the ukiyo-e style, with a star-shaped center surrounded by five petals, some pointy leaves in another color, and small buds. They also ha...”
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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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