Principles of Digital Painting for Portraits
What Will We Do on the Course?
A course by Rodrigo Rivas (Ruiveran) , Illustrator and Concept Artist
Joined July 2020
About the video: What Will We Do on the Course?
Overview
“Here, I will review the main points that we will see in the course to prepare you and thus achieve, create a compelling portrait.”
In this video lesson Rodrigo Rivas (Ruiveran) addresses the topic: What Will We Do on the Course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Principles of Digital Painting for Portraits. Learn to master lighting, shadowing, and coloring techniques to bring your illustrations to life.
Partial transcription of the video
“What will we do in the course? I will start the course explaining to you the artistic principles of light and shadow and how we will use them to create volume and depth in a portrait. You will put together a mood board with photographs and illustration references. We will start with the sketch drawing reviewing the general structure of the head and its proportions to create a base drawing to help us understand the plans of the head that we are drawing in the style we want. I will teach you the mapping technique, where you will identify the planes of light and shadow to build dramatic and in...”
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Course summary for: Principles of Digital Painting for Portraits
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Category
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Areas
Digital Painting, Painting

Rodrigo Rivas (Ruiveran)
A course by Rodrigo Rivas (Ruiveran)
Rodrigo Rivas is a digital illustrator and conceptual artist from Peru who is dedicated to creating characters and stories through painting. He has worked as an illustrator for advertising, editorials, storyboard animation, video games, and more.
In 2019, he was part of the campaign team for the Pan American Games in Lima and was a finalist for the 2019 National Comic Contest. Currently, he is a freelance illustrator who focuses on perfecting his techniques and sharing his personal projects on social media.
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