Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

Overview

“Let's get started on the production of our portrait! I’ll place Uma’s reference on the canvas and crop it to the format that I want. Then, I'll adjust its colours to find the tone that I like and show you how to start making a quick pencil tracing of key features.”

In this video lesson Sam Gilbey addresses the topic: Initial Sketch and Rough Background 1, 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

“ Initial Sketch and Rough Background In this lesson, we can finally start on the production of our portrait. We'll look at how to place the reference on the canvas and crop it. Then we'll do initial pencil tracing of some of the features and make a pass on the background to get that started, too. Let's go. I'll put these two images in a Reference folder, but my main image here, I'll zoom out a bit. I'll just hide the Reference. We're doing a portrait, and, as I say, this canvas here is 16 x 20 inches, which is a 4 x 5 aspect ratio, so when we're done, we'll be able to share it straight awa...”

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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