Contemporary Portraits with Graphite
The Digital Sketch
A course by lantomo , Artist and Portrait Specialist
About the video: The Digital Sketch
Overview
“In this lesson, you will see how to create your final composition by mounting it digitally with the help of Adobe Photoshop. You will retouch your chosen image, turn it into black and white, adjust levels and add the other elements you have chosen. Playing with superimposed layers and creating a colored background or leaving the white background of the paper, you will have the final image ready in Adobe Photoshop, which will help you transfer your drawing to paper, whether you want to use it on screen or if you prefer to print it for have it closer to hand.”
In this video lesson lantomo addresses the topic: The Digital Sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Contemporary Portraits with Graphite. Combine analog and digital techniques to create realistic pencil portraits filled with emotion.
Partial transcription of the video
“The digital sketch Now I will teach you how to retouch your image in Photoshop and then transfer your drawing to paper. I'll show you how I prepare my image before moving on to line drawing. I find it very practical to use Photoshop as a tool to create my image in a detailed and safe way for my final composition. You will see that my final image differs very little from the digital sketch that I am going to create at this point. In Additional Resources I will leave you a file so you can see what is the relationship between my final drawing and the digital sketch that I created. Now I will s...”
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Course summary for: Contemporary Portraits with Graphite
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration
lantomo
A course by lantomo
Antonella Montes, who goes by the artistic name Lantomo, is an Italian artist living in Barcelona. She studied architecture in Italy with a specialization in stage and exhibit design, but since 2010, has worked exclusively as a professional portrait artist. She spent three years living in Beijing, China where she perfected her portraits, creating increasingly detailed and precise works with her signature mark.
She is currently represented by galleries such as Galería Bat Alberto Cornejo in Madrid, Galería 3 Punts in Barcelona, and Retrospect Galleries in Byron Bay, Australia. She is also active at international fairs and expos.
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