Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop
The Hands 2
A course by Sam Gilbey
, Artist
Bring your favorite movie character to life by learning how to paint a realistic digital portrait from scratch
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About the video: The Hands 2
Overview
“I've added the main details of the hand and started working on contrast. Now, I'll show you how I use one of my favourite brushes, the "Big White Softy", to finesse the area and have it complement the rest of the portrait as best as possible.”
In this video lesson Sam Gilbey addresses the topic: The Hands 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 Hands We now have a nice level of detail on the hand and a good bit of contrasting. From here, though, I'll show you one of my favourite brushes to use and, again, really finesse this area so it starts to complement the portrait as best we can. Another brush I really like is the Big Wide Softy. I don't need it that big. Around the 100 mark. As the name suggests, it's just a nice soft brush. We'll see how we're getting a bit of a darker shadow in between the two sides of the wrist. Still got a couple of pencil marks there, still showing. Again, the colour I'm picking, I'm not quite get...”
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Course summary for: Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Illustration, Portrait Drawing, Portrait Illustration

A course by Sam Gilbey
Sam Gilbey is a British artist specializing in painterly pop culture portraits. He’s been drawing for as long as he can remember, and started illustrating professionally in 2004.
Throughout his career, he’s created officially-licensed artwork for films and series like The Avengers, BoJack Horseman, Jaws, Jurassic Park, and many more. He’s also collaborated with clients like adidas, Activision, Apple, Audi, The BBC, British Airways, Disney, Edgar Wright, Empire Magazine, Esquire, GQ, The Guardian, Lucasfilm, and many more.
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