Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits
Sketch
A course by German Gonzalez Ramirez , Graphic Designer and Digital Illustrator
Joined August 2015
Joined August 2015
About the video: Sketch
Overview
“Now yes, what we came for! In this lesson we will start our sketch, from the reference images that I selected in the reference search, I will use the best to start drawing, let's trace and I will edit a photo of a face to give more realism to our character. There I will create the protagonist of our portrait, his dog and a couple of narrative elements.”
In this video lesson German Gonzalez Ramirez addresses the topic: Sketch, 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 Lesson 4. i'll discuss sketching. We'll collect images we've chosen from our references and morgue file cover to trace. and some images will be edited. This process helps in refining our artistic skills and understanding visual composition. To then meticulously trace them once more. creating a strikingly unique and original image. Let's dive right in and start our project: We begin with our portrait. We'll set up our canvas in RGB mode at 300 dpi. making it letter size to perfectly fit Instagram's format. Let's get started! I'll duplicate the layer and fill it with a random color. Using ...”
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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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