Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

Overview

“We can now lay down the rough details of our background to establish the mood and atmosphere of our illustration. At this stage, we'll use just a few simple colours.”

In this video lesson Sam Gilbey addresses the topic: Initial Sketch and Rough Background 2, 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 Now we've traced our character's portrait. We have what we need for that. Time to look at the background. All we need to do here is we want to establish the mood and the atmosphere of the film just with a few simple colours. We'll use a soft airbrush to get some of the details in, and we can come back to that later and add detail. I'll just hide my main reference. Zoom out a little bit and bring up the other reference I had, but I think that should be quite nice to use this. Certainly the car here, so I'll Option and then drag. Copy. Way down here, hide...”

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Course summary for: Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

• Level: Beginner
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• 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