Speed Painting in Photoshop: Accelerate Your Creative Process

Picking a Subject

A course by Gabriel Gomez , Freelance Artist and Animator

98% positive reviews (191)

5,098 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Picking a Subject

Overview

“In this lesson, we will pick a theme for our final project. I will quickly explain how and where I look for reference images and how I study them to inform my painting.”

In this video lesson Gabriel Gomez addresses the topic: Picking a Subject, which is part of the Domestika online course: Speed Painting in Photoshop: Accelerate Your Creative Process. Learn how to sketch your ideas and work efficiently to create a digital illustration from start to finish.

Partial transcription of the video

“Picking a Subject In this lesson we will pick a subject. I will quickly explain how I look for references, gather and study them for my paintings. We are going to talk about picking a theme or subject for my paintings. How I look for references, gather them and study them. Here you can see, this is a software called PureRef. Literally a free software that's available online. I would advise you to download it and try it out. It's really useful for gathering images. Here in this case, for example, I gathered a few images I found online. The first group right here. It's a few images of places ...”

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Course summary for: Speed Painting in Photoshop: Accelerate Your Creative Process

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (191)
5098 students
4 units
20 lessons (4h 13m)
11 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Concept Art, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Gabriel Gomez

A course by Gabriel Gomez

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Freelance Artist and Animator

Gabriel Gomez is a French freelance artist and animator. As a child, he was always exploring new hobbies and interests and spent years attending different art classes. He later went on to study illustration at Saint-Luc art school, where he met a community of artists and began experimenting with painting in Photoshop. Whilst studying there, he was given the opportunity to work as a background painter for The Suicide Shop and, after graduating, as head of character lighting for the movie Klaus, an experience that really kick-started his career.

Since then, he’s worked with clients including Netflix and Paramount and founded his own pre-production company, Citadel Animation. He also shares his art with over 30K followers on Instagram.