Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

Overview

“In this lesson, we’ll return to the background and add some additional detail. It needs to complement the main portrait but, more specifically, the background can give the whole piece a more cinematic feel and enhance the atmosphere.”

In this video lesson Sam Gilbey addresses the topic: Finishing the Background, 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

“ Finishing the Background In this lesson, we'll return to the background and get some more detail in there that will help it to complement our main portrait. But crucially, that's where we can enhance the cinematic feel and get the atmosphere. OK, let's go. We're going all the way back down here. The first thing I want to do is work on the car. I'll use the values that I'm getting from this secondary reference. I'll go for Brush Pen. Because this just allows me to do a nice, crisp edge. As we've done before, first of all, we'll work beneath the pencil layer. Just to get some of the basic v...”

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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