Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

Overview

“I'll show you here a simple technique to zoom in on your reference and work on adding more details to your drawing now that we're done with the basic shapes. Make sure you save your file regularly, as well as save different versions of your drawing, in case you ever want to go back to an earlier version.”

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

“ The Main Portrait: Underpainting I've just saved there. It goes without saying, really, make sure you save regularly. It may also be worth saving different versions as you progress, in case you want to go back to an earlier version. Next, I'll show you a very simple but useful technique where we put our reference on the same canvas at the side. This means we can have it very close to where we're painting and also, most crucially, pick colours from it that we can use on our own painting. Let's go. We'll hide this blurry reference again. I'll make another copy of the reference. I'm actually...”

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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