Principles of Digital Painting for Portraits
Raising the light with grays
A course by Rodrigo Rivas (Ruiveran) , Illustrator and Concept Artist
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Raising the light with grays
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you how to map your highlights and shadows to create the skeleton of your image and what will be your guide for the next steps. Then, you will polish and detail your portrait in gray.”
In this video lesson Rodrigo Rivas (Ruiveran) addresses the topic: Raising the light with grays, 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
“Raising the light with grays Now we will map your highlights and shadows to create the skeleton of the image. Now that we have the sketch drawing, let's put together the planes of light and shadow according to what we have studied. Remember, let's not use the extremes of the tone scale and let's be legible and simple with our figures. For example, here I have already cleaned the sketch a little more regarding the previous lesson, I have fixed the proportions, I have used and I have been guided enough of the figures in the image. Look, this is one figure and this is another, the figure of th...”
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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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