Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

Workstation and Brushes

A course by Sam Gilbey
Artist. Bedford, United Kingdom.
Joined June 2021
, Artist

Bring your favorite movie character to life by learning how to paint a realistic digital portrait from scratch

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  • Audio: English
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About the video: Workstation and Brushes

Overview

“To start with, I’ll introduce the project we'll be doing and explain what to expect from this course. I'll also show you how to get set up and experiment with different brush types.”

In this video lesson Sam Gilbey addresses the topic: Workstation and Brushes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop. Bring your favorite movie character to life by learning how to paint a realistic digital portrait from scratch.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Workstation and Brushes In this lesson, I'll introduce the final project and what to expect from this course. We'll also look at getting set up and experiment with different brush types. I love movies and I love painting portraits, so I'll show you here how to take one of your favourite movie or television characters. I'll share tips for capturing a character's likeness and then show you how you can combine that portrait with a simple but evocative background. The skills you'll learn can be applied to any portraits you paint, but also to digital painting in general. You'll experiment with...”

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Course summary for: Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (39)
  • 1124 students
  • 4 units
  • 25 lessons (5h 38m)
  • 7 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Software

    Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    Digital Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Illustration, Portrait Drawing, Portrait Illustration

Sam Gilbey

A course by Sam Gilbey

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Sam Gilbey is a British artist specializing in painterly pop culture portraits. He’s been drawing for as long as he can remember, and started illustrating professionally in 2004.

Throughout his career, he’s created officially-licensed artwork for films and series like The Avengers, BoJack Horseman, Jaws, Jurassic Park, and many more. He’s also collaborated with clients like adidas, Activision, Apple, Audi, The BBC, British Airways, Disney, Edgar Wright, Empire Magazine, Esquire, GQ, The Guardian, Lucasfilm, and many more.


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  • 25 lessons (5h 38m)
  • 22 additional resources (7 files)
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  • Audio: English
  • English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
  • Level: Beginner
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Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop. Illustration course by Sam Gilbey

Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

A course by Sam Gilbey
Artist. Bedford, United Kingdom.
Joined June 2021
  • 100% positive reviews (39)
  • 1124 students