Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits

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 this lesson 4 I will explain about the sketch. Here we will collect the images that we had already selected in our references and in the morgue Archive stage to trace them. And some we are going to edit and then re-trace them and make it happen A more striking and more original image. Get to work and start with our portrait. We will create our canvas in an RGB color mode at 300 dpi. And I'm going to do letter size to fit on Instagram. I will duplicate layer. I will fill of a random color. With Shift + Alt I will hold the same proportion and I'm going to put it 33 cm high, more or less. 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