Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

Overview

“The main part of the project is capturing the likeness of the character. In order to do that, we will need to do some preparation work, which consists in painting the main areas of the character’s face as solid shapes on different layers. I'll show you how to create some basic shapes with the "Lasso Tool", which I think is the quickest way to do it. Then, with a soft airbrush, I'll start working on some of the main shadows of the face.”

In this video lesson Sam Gilbey addresses the topic: The Main Portrait: Underpainting 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

“ The Main Portrait: Underpainting In this lesson, we'll begin painting our main portrait. Just before we get started, we need to do some preparation work. Basically, we've got to block in the main shapes for the face, the hair, the hands and the clothing. Let's get started, I'll show you how. Before we can start having fun with the portrait, we've got to get some of the boring stuff done. Hold down Shift here, and grab all my layers of pencils on. Actually, keep the background separate. I'll do a folder for that. But then below that folder, do a new layer called Main Shape. As you just saw...”

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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