Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

Overview

“In this last stage, I'll accentuate the highlights on the hair by trying different brushes and using the "Gradient Tool". I'll finish by blending together hair and face as if they had been done on the same layer.”

In this video lesson Sam Gilbey addresses the topic: Details of the Hair 3, 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 Having added and accentuated some of the highlights, we've also looked at softening with the airbrushing at the edges. Now we'll move on to trying different brushes and getting the fringe to look right. We're getting close, just keep doing a bit more. Let's try this brush. I really want these blue highlights to be popping out. But then I'll go for the bristle again. You can see that's too much there. Sometimes, you have to go too far then pare it back. I quite like that, but I want to cut into it. I'll make my brush smaller. Then I've got the darker tone in my palette,...”

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Course summary for: Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

• Level: Beginner
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• 1320 students
• 4 units
• 25 lessons (5h 38m)
• 7 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

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