Principles of Digital Painting for Portraits

Overview

“Now, we will apply everything we have learned to elementary shapes: the cylinder, the sphere and the cube. We will study how light reacts to its shapes and what we can learn from this to apply it to the final project.”

In this video lesson Rodrigo Rivas (Ruiveran) addresses the topic: Painting the still life, 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

“Painting the still life In this lesson we will do an exercise and we will see how light reacts to shapes. The first step we will do is analyze our reference image and see where the light source is coming from. This is the first and most important step, it will determine the rest of the values, colors and even the drawing of our image. In this reference image the light is coming from the left, remember we must understand the picture also as a series of three-dimensional shapes, so if the brightest sides are on the left, Let's put the value two and this could be a value three. If we also see ...”

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Course summary for: Principles of Digital Painting for Portraits

• Level: Beginner
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• 4404 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 35m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Digital Painting, Painting