Principles of Digital Painting for Portraits

Overview

“Here, I want to teach you to move your works from chiaroscuro to a work in full color. You will choose a palette and stick to it as you color your illustration. You will also detail more and work the color of the materials, the plans and the light of certain specific areas.”

In this video lesson Rodrigo Rivas (Ruiveran) addresses the topic: Applying the color, 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

“Applying the color In this lesson you will learn to pass your chiaroscuro works to a work in full color. Now we can move on to the one that, for me, is the most fun part of the process: applying the color. It is a good time to make sure that the file mode is RGB and not CMYK, you can change it in Image, Mode and select with check the RGB Color. RGB mode allows us to use the entire color spectrum that you can produce in Photoshop digitally, while CMYK will dull and gray your colors, it is a mode for printing. If we wanted to print this piece later, it would have to be converted to CMYK, but ...”

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Course summary for: Principles of Digital Painting for Portraits

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (160)
• 4404 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 35m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Digital Painting, Painting