Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits

Overview

“Here the course starts to get much more interesting. In this lesson I will review some illustrations and drawings of artists that I follow. I will explain the light conditions that their works have. I will explain how to determine the tone of light and shadow in an illustration, using the color wheel to better understand the exercise. In the end, I'm going to do a practice with basic forms to put into practice what I saw in the lesson.”

In this video lesson German Gonzalez Ramirez addresses the topic: Aspects of Illumination, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits. Perfect your digital illustration techniques and learn to tell stories through portraits.

Partial transcription of the video

“As I told you before, This is the coolest and most bacana part of the course. In this lesson I will show you illustrations of some artists and then I'm going to do an exercise through the color wheel to know how to determine the tone of the shadow and the illustration depending on the light conditions that we put on. If you want, let's see the exercise. This is the most important part of the course. Here the magic of the illustrations is condensed. Let's see a series of examples of how the lights and shadows are explained. Let's start with this image on the left. It's from Aykut Aydogdu. Is...”

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Course summary for: Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (314)
• 4650 students
• 4 units
• 21 lessons (3h 13m)
• 10 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration