Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits

Overview

“Here I will explain an important step to take into account when making an illustration of good resolution, optimizing the memory of our computer when doing large-format work. Also, I will explain a little about proportions, pixels per inch and sizes of our workspace, related to the use that our illustration will have, be it for web or printing, and we will leave the canvas ready to begin with our sketch.”

In this video lesson German Gonzalez Ramirez addresses the topic: Canvas, 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

“In this lesson I will talk a little about the canvas in order to optimize computer memory. Let's watch the exercise. I will explain a bit about the proportions of the canvas. We must take into account, first, what we want to do. The most important thing is to know if we will print the image or not. I, for example, create the images as if he were going to print them, in case he led them to print. It is better to always work in a good resolution. Therefore, whatever our intention, You have to create a good canvas. I almost always work in letter size at 300 dpi or tabloid size, but sometimes I...”

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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