Pencil Portraits: Light, Shadow, and Proportion

Overview

“In this lesson I'll show you how to edit the photo of your finished drawing so that the digital image is faithful to the work on paper. You will also see how by photographing each stage of your drawing you will achieve a record of its creation process.”

In this video lesson Juan Perednik addresses the topic: Retouching and Documentation of the Process, which is part of the Domestika online course: Pencil Portraits: Light, Shadow, and Proportion. Learn how to draw expressive portraits by understanding the basics of lighting and the proportions of the human face.

Partial transcription of the video

“Retouching and documentation of the process In this lesson, to finish, I am going to show you how to make a small touch up to our drawing and then how was the documentation of the whole process. First what we are going to do is to pass the photo of our drawing to black and white. We are going to go to Image, Settings, Black and White and we are going to give OK. The next step will be in Edition, Transform, Scale and holding Option or Alt, if on Windows, We are going to scale the photo until it is the desired size. Then we can center it to our liking, move the drawing until it is well locate...”

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Course summary for: Pencil Portraits: Light, Shadow, and Proportion

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (90)
• 3591 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 8m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration