Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits

Final project

“Dear student, we have already reached the end of our course. I hope you have learned from the lessons and the topics that I tried. It is important to know that for any process that you are going to carry out, it is necessary to research, reference and fill with many ideas, always have at hand a file to which you can go to generate ideas. It must be said, being an illustrator is a path that takes time and patience, so do not despair when something does not go well, it is a process that is different for everyone, and you do not have to stress to find a particular style, style will find you, or just some details that you do unintentionally like the shape of your strokes, the color palette or some details, they will build an identity about your work and people will begin to recognize them. To keep in mind: patience, perseverance and observation are essential in this process, observe the work of other illustrators, how they play with lights, shadows, colors, proportions, observe photographs and phenomena of light, take pictures. All this will help you to know what to do and what not to do, or what you would like to do and what not. I hope you participate in the forum with the doubts you have, and I would like them to dare to give feedback to their colleagues' work. I am very excited to think about the outcome of each one, so I encourage you to show us your favorite movie and character in the forum, become a kind of poster! It would be great to see a gallery of unofficial posters in our forum! Now, it has been a pleasure to have crossed in this course, hugs and good luck on your way as an illustrator!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Alright. everyone. we've come to the conclusion of our course. Let's go over all the lessons we've learned throughout this journey together. We began by discussing my influences. where I showed my favorite artists who have most impacted my work. Then. we moved on to creating our morgue file. where we collect all our references for our illustration. Next. we prepared the canvas to define the illustration's size. And now for the most exciting part. We began sketching and selected a color palette that helped define the layers. After finalizing the initial moment of the illustration. we proceed...”

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Course summary for: Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (314)
• 4658 students
• 4 units
• 21 lessons (3h 13m)
• 10 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration