Whimsical 3D Portraiture in Illustrator

Overview

“The final step for finishing the facial features is to add the hair. The many hair strokes you see are actually created by using the "Blend Tool", a very helpful technique located under the "Objects" tab. In this lesson, I’ll show you how to take advantage of it for a hair-like effect.”

In this video lesson Ohni Lisle addresses the topic: The Hair, 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

“ The Hair Now that we have our ears set and looking perfect, in this lesson, we'll move on to the hairline. I actually create the hairline using the Blend Tool, which allows you to create many different steps in between two objects. I'll show you how to use this to make many perfect blend strokes, a.k.a. a hairline. Let's get started. Now, our face needs some hair, and rather than go in and draw every stroke, I found a way to make natural hair is to create one stroke that looks like hair. Copy, paste, and now with both selected, we're going to do something called blend, so down in Object, ...”

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Course summary for: Whimsical 3D Portraiture in Illustrator

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (13)
• 358 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (1h 41m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration