Illustrated Portrait in Watercolor
Let's start our portrait I
A course by Ana Santos , Painter and illustrator
About the video: Let's start our portrait I
Overview
“In this lesson, we'll put our chosen reference photo on paper. I'm going to do it with a light screen. Tracing is fine! When you have time this helps to get the work done. But if you want your drawing to be more personal and not so similar, try freehanding.”
In this video lesson Ana Santos addresses the topic: Let's start our portrait I, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Portrait in Watercolor. Learn to combine traditional techniques and digital retouching with Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“LET'S START OUR PORTRAIT In this lesson I will transfer the portrait I chose to paper. To speed up the process I normally use a lightbox, but you can use any kind of light that allows you to trace, A window will serve, for instance. You can use a grid or trace with a pencil. You can even copy the portrait freehand. It doesn't have to be identical to the picture. There're many ways to do it. For tracing I recommend, what I normally use, is a hard pencil, a 3H or 4H could work. Since I will then apply watercolor, a hard pencil will be less noticeable, even if afterwards I end up going over wi...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Portrait in Watercolor
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Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Ana Santos
A course by Ana Santos
Drawing has been Ana's passion since she was a child, so she didn't think twice about enrolling in a fine arts school where she specialized in drawing and graphic design. She has always been fascinated by the human figure, which often appears in one form or another in her personal projects.
Ana combines traditional and digital techniques and is an expert at capturing expressive looks, strong attitudes, and somber moods in her illustrations, which have appeared in publications from major publishers such as Penguin Random House, Editorial Planeta, and Roca Editorial.
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