Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits

Overview

“After having chosen the basic tones for the character (skin and clothes) we will define a tone of ambient light that will help us to give the tone of the shadow. And here I will begin to polish some details of the face, such as the wounds.”

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

“Here I will begin to give more detail on the face. Let's start defining our shadows. As I told you earlier in the theory of light and color, I really like to play with the context of color. Here I will do something similar. I will define the shadows. The background has nothing to do with those shadows, but I will define an ambient light color. My ambient light color is going to be this king blue. It is very common that I use it in my illustrations. And I'm going to start marking the shadows. I stand in the ambient light and see that they are very opposite, but then I will take the route on ...”

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Course summary for: Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits

• Level: Beginner
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• 4650 students
• 4 units
• 21 lessons (3h 13m)
• 10 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration