Animated Portrait Illustration with Photoshop
Decorative Elements and Secondary Figures 2
A course by Martina Hoffmann , Freelance Illustrator, Art Director, and Producer
Joined May 2021
Joined May 2021
About the video: Decorative Elements and Secondary Figures 2
Overview
“Now I place the plants with less detailed leaves behind my character. This keeps the focus on the figure in the foreground and the background takes a back seat.”
In this video lesson Martina Hoffmann addresses the topic: Decorative Elements and Secondary Figures 2, 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
“Decorative elements and secondary figures I plant the plants behind the girl. For this I put a new layer at the very back in front of the background, but behind the girl pick up the background shade and make them darker. I want to make the background colors relatively restrained, so that the foreground looks nice. I now lengthen with a relatively small brush tip partly the plants here, as if they would run out of the dress. I lower the opacity a bit more. I'm deleting a few things again which might be a bit too much. Now I have created the plants in the background. The only things missing a...”
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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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