Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

Overview

“We’ll now move on to painting the hair of our character. The goal is to add enough detail so it feels like it has volume and complements the hard work we’ve done on the portrait, without going so far that we start trying to paint every single hair. With a "Layer Mask" I'll start by adjusting the shape of the hair, then I'll be working on the light.”

In this video lesson Sam Gilbey addresses the topic: Details of the Hair 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

“ Details of the Hair In this lesson, we'll paint our character's hair. Our face is already nice and detailed, so we want to bring the hair up to a level where it matches and complements that. We want to have volume and atmosphere, but the crucial thing is we also don't want to go too far where we feel like we'll paint every strand. Let's get started. Let's just hide this face reference and the additional one. Actually, I'll zoom out because if you remember, I love the colours that are in this reference, which aren't so much in the main one we're using. If you haven't got this, I have my Mo...”

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Course summary for: Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (55)
• 1579 students
• 4 units
• 25 lessons (5h 38m)
• 7 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration