Animated Portrait Illustration with Photoshop
Making the Portrait: The Head 1
A course by Martina Hoffmann , Freelance Illustrator, Art Director, and Producer
Joined May 2021
Joined May 2021
About the video: Making the Portrait: The Head 1
Overview
“In this lesson we will now focus on the elaboration of the character's head and face. You'll learn what clipping masks are and how helpful they can be when drawing.”
In this video lesson Martina Hoffmann addresses the topic: Making the Portrait: The Head 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated Portrait Illustration with Photoshop. Discover how to draw creative characters and bring portraits to life with animated elements.
Partial transcription of the video
“Elaboration of the portrait: the head we have prepared everything to start the final drawing of our portrait. Now we start with the final elaboration of the face. Here we go! I start working on my portrait drawings always with the skin. For this I first copy my preliminary drawing layer, rename that and bring the Opacity down to around 40%. I create a new layer under the preliminary drawing layer, call it skin and blend in my colors. Now I select with the brush tool selected and Alt-click the lightest shade for the skin from my color palette. I select a new brush, zoom in a bit and first dr...”
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Course summary for: Animated Portrait Illustration with Photoshop
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Category
3D & Animation, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Animated Illustration, Animation, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration
Martina Hoffmann
A course by Martina Hoffmann
Martina Hoffmann is a Berlin-based freelance illustrator, art director, and producer of animated advertisements and short films with more than 15 years of experience. She is passionate about art in all its forms, which is reflected by the broad range of illustration styles, artistic approaches, and mediums she uses to create her projects, each with their own visual language.
She has collaborated with advertising agencies, children's publishers, and organizations in the scientific, educational, and social fields. Her animated productions are fully independent, meaning she designs and animates each piece from start to finish. Since 2005, she has been promoting her illustrations as self-published postcards, prints, and calendars through the organization Stift & Papier.
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