Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

Overview

“To finish with the general shape of our character, I'm going to paint the character’s clothing. The "hard work" of capturing the skin and the hair might be done, but we still need to paint the clothing convincingly so that our whole painting is cohesive. Although there is a lot of colour on the blouse, I'll start by thinking of it as being purely on a grey scale so I can concentrate on light and shadow. To help me do that, I'll convert my reference to black and white.”

In this video lesson Sam Gilbey addresses the topic: The Clothing 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 Clothing In this lesson, we'll paint our character's clothing. For any pop culture character, clothing will often be crucial in terms of getting the right look, especially where a character wears the same clothing throughout a movie. Whilst we've accomplished the hard work of painting the face, hair and hand, getting the clothing right in that similar level of detail is what will make it cohesive and bring it all together. OK, let's go. Now, let's select the blouse. As before, we'll create a new layer with a clipping mask, which means that if I want, I can increase what's below. Let's...”

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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