Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits
Face proportion
A course by German Gonzalez Ramirez , Graphic Designer and Digital Illustrator
Joined August 2015
Joined August 2015
About the video: Face proportion
Overview
“This lesson will be of great importance to start learning about the proportion of the human face. I will explain, through a grid of geometric figures, as when making abstractions of complex elements, and convert them into simple and more basic forms, we can understand and better understand their composition. ”
In this video lesson German Gonzalez Ramirez addresses the topic: Face proportion, 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
“Amen. Let's begin discussing facial proportions. I'll demonstrate how to use geometric shapes to create a that will aid us in understanding and constructing facial features. to gain a clearer understanding of the face. Let's proceed. begin with this explanation. I'll use a sketch brush. a standard tool for drawing and illustrating. Let's set it to an opacity of about 60-40. 50-60. and I'll start. We're going to draw a circle for our skull. This will be the basic shape we begin with. We will start by dividing this circle into two equal parts. To achieve this. we'll draw a straight line acros...”
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Course summary for: Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration
German Gonzalez Ramirez
A course by German Gonzalez Ramirez
Germán González is a graphic designer trained at the Pontifical Bolivarian University, although in 2014 he discovered digital illustration and since then he has used it to create portraits of the protagonists of his favorite films and series, adding all kinds of visual references and an explosion of color very characteristic of his work.
He works as a graphic designer at Parque Explora, a science museum in the city of Medellín, Colombia, a job that he combines with his activity as an independent illustrator, collaborating with local and foreign publications.
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