Artistic Mixed-media Collages
Portrait Preparation
A course by Petra Zehner , Illustrator and Collage Artist
About the video: Portrait Preparation
Overview
“You will learn how to choose an image to work with. I will teach you how to scan and retouch your image, besides, you will see how to create and prepare everything in Photoshop to start working on your project! ”
In this video lesson Petra Zehner addresses the topic: Portrait Preparation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Mixed-media Collages. Create unique collages that are both vintage and contemporary, and blur the line between traditional art and digital illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“Portrait Preparation Now, let's start by choosing an image to work with. We'll scan it and retouch it, and prepare our Photoshop document to work with. Let me show you how. Choosing images to work with is hard. I have many boxes of photos at home. What I like one day is not necessarily what I want to work with the next day. These are a few pictures I've scanned. These are old family pictures from my French in-law family. They were rather small, to begin with, maybe less than 10 x 15 cm so I scanned them at 1200 DPI. Anything of the size of A4, I scan at 600 DPI, anything smaller than that, ...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Mixed-media Collages
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Collage, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration
Petra Zehner
A course by Petra Zehner
Petra Zehner is a German illustrator and collage artist. After studying literature and linguistics in Berlin, Petra experimented with writing, photography, and illustration, which led her to study graphic design in London. Since then, she has moved back and forth between Germany, the UK, Malaysia, and Singapore, before basing herself in Paris. During this time, Petra rediscovered collage as a medium that combines all of her interests. For Petra, collage is also a metaphor for life as a whole, and the way we collect, mix, match, and make things our own.
Petra discovered that she didn’t want to work exclusively with traditional collage methods and created her own combination of analog and digital elements. She is the creative director and founder of Paris Collage Collective, a community that sets regular creative challenges to connect local and global artists, and encourage creative expression that goes “further than likes and shares on social media platforms”. Petra has also worked on various art projects, including Elleree, her own series of 365 images based on the same photo of an unknown woman taken in the early 1900s. She says that having to try new things repetitively in such a way pushes her to look at things with different eyes
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