Whimsical 3D Portraiture in Illustrator
Getting Started
A course by Ohni Lisle , Graphic Artist
About the video: Getting Started
Overview
“Now we can begin! I'll be working on the basic head structure, where all the facial features will live on. This includes the head, cheeks, and neck. You'll see that making a face with a 3D tool feels a little bit like sculpting!”
In this video lesson Ohni Lisle addresses the topic: Getting Started, which is part of the Domestika online course: Whimsical 3D Portraiture in Illustrator. Learn to create bold illustrations in 3D by drawing and rendering a vibrant portrait using both Illustrator and Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Getting Started Now that you know how to make 3D objects in Illustrator, in this lesson, we're going to start on the base of the face. I'm going to use my own colors and shapes. Feel free to follow along and use my techniques in your own way, choosing your own colors and basic variations. Let's get into it. Now we know a little bit more about how to create 3D shapes. We can get started on our illustration. Take these guys out with a little deleting and we're going to start just like we made the pear, creating the contour of the head to wrap around. We can do this one of two ways. We could...”
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Course summary for: Whimsical 3D Portraiture in Illustrator
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Ohni Lisle
A course by Ohni Lisle
Ohni Lisle is a freelance graphic artist living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated with a BA in interdisciplinary arts and design in 2009 from the University of North Texas, and shortly after, moved to New York. In 2015, one of her illustrations on Instagram was noticed by a co-creator of Refinery29, paving the way for a number of exciting collaborations.
Since then, Ohni has worked on many different projects, creating both digital and traditional artwork for clients including Apple, Nike, The New York Times, The New Yorker and Vice.
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