Animated Portrait Illustration with Photoshop

Animated Portrait Illustration with Photoshop

“We have now come to the end of this course. Thank you for the participation! I hope not only to have given you an insight into portrait drawing, but also to have infected you with my love for illustration and animation. Now you can devote yourself to your project and draw your own creative portrait - I have summarized the most important steps for you here. But before that, let me remind you again that this is not about following my example project to the last detail, but about letting your own inspiration run free and finding your own style. reference material Find inspiration and reference material for your illustration. Then put the visual material together in an overview by creating a mood board and also create a suitable color palette. Sketch of the character You can either do the preliminary drawing with pen and paper or digitally. If you decide to do your sketch on paper, you can then either scan or photograph it for further editing on the computer in Photoshop.

First, draw your character's head and face. Work with clipping masks and with different layer modes to create a great atmosphere in your portrait drawing. Then comes the hair, clothes and accessories. Remember to check your reference material from time to time. The details First design the background and then the decorative elements of the character to bring your illustration to life. Add patterns and secondary characters that fit the story. These can be plants, animals, clouds, stars, planets, maybe even tools or technical devices - refer to your mood board again. Animation When your portrait drawing is complete, breathe life into it by animating individual elements with animation. This can be waving hair, a wink or a smile - there are no limits to your imagination. First you create the rough pre-animation and then you can trace it cleanly and finalize it. Finally, you export your animated portrait as a GIF or video file and then you can already upload your project to the forum. Simply click on "Create your project". Don't forget to take photos of your workflow and share them along with your animated illustration. You can also add a short description to this. Do you have doubts, questions or ideas you would like to share? For this, the Forum is here. There you can not only present your work, but also exchange ideas with other course participants and find inspiration. I'll stop by as often as I can and give you feedback and advice. Until then, I wish you lots of fun drawing and animating! ”

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“final project Now we have come to the end of my Domestika course. Thank you for the participation! I hope you had as much fun as I did and that you learned a lot and apply what you have learned to your project. First I told you something about myself and about artists that I think are particularly great. Then I showed you where to find inspiration and template images and how to create a color palette. I explained to you how you do portraits can draw from different perspectives and facial expressions and proportions vary. You then animated individual elements with cartoons, first as a rough ...”

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Course summary for: Animated Portrait Illustration with Photoshop

• Level: Beginner
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• 1208 students
• 5 units
• 24 lessons (4h 17m)
• 1 download

• Category

  3D & Animation, Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Animated Illustration, Animation, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration