Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style
Additional Effects and Final Finishes 4
A course by Celeste Vargas Hoshi , Illustrator and Visual Artist
Joined July 2020
About the video: Additional Effects and Final Finishes 4
Overview
“We take the last steps to finalize the illustration.”
In this video lesson Celeste Vargas Hoshi addresses the topic: Additional Effects and Final Finishes 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
“Additional Effects and Finishing Touches It’s worth pointing out, and you may have noticed, that in this illustration my grandmother’s needle is white, and that’s what I was referring to when I said I don’t like using black and white. They should only be used on very special occasions. If I’d already used white in the fabric, the face, or the sakura flowers, this needle, which I’ve made white, wouldn’t stand out as much, nor would the lighting of the sakura in front. Let’s use this to our advantage. Now I can delete this. Now it’s back to its original color. Let’s also delete the shadows an...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style
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Adobe Photoshop -
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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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