Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop
Final Details and Colour Grading
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: Final Details and Colour Grading
Overview
“To finalise our illustration, I'll show you how to add some finishing touches to the painting and really bring it together by adjusting the colour.”
In this video lesson Sam Gilbey addresses the topic: Final Details and Colour Grading, 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
“ Final Details and Colour Grading In this lesson, we will complete our image by making some final tweaks to the portrait now that we've had a break with fresh eyes. Then we'll bring it together by introducing a colour grade, which will be the final touch, let's begin. Now we're coming to the end. It's just worth having a little reassess of some of the things we've adjusted. I'll put the Noise and Canvas into a group. I'll call that Texture. I'll just hide it for now. Go to my main character portrait, do a new layer. I'll set it to be Soft Light and Opacity, let's try 30. All this extra def...”
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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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