Digital Painting and Portraiture for Black Skin
Influences
A course by Wilno Fakie , Digital Artist
About the video: Influences
Overview
“All artists have inspirations and are shaped by them. I'm not different. However, it is impossible to name just one work or one artist that influenced my work completely. In my case, it was the artists and the content that brought representation to the public. Also, what inspires me is the courage, the message, seeing people like me inhabiting art and all media. That's what inspires me every day, seeing myself identified by illustrations, superheroes, animated films, among other things. It's being able to see myself as part of a society in all its spheres and in important positions. This is also what makes me want to create, share and represent. This all helps me not to feel alone and to realize that if the creation of this content inspires me, mine can inspire someone else too. ”
In this video lesson Wilno Fakie addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Painting and Portraiture for Black Skin. Learn to depict the diversity of African features in Photoshop with the right tones and lighting for each context.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences I have always been an observant person of the environment around me, therefore, I have always been influenced by the things I hear, for the things I live and for the things I see around me. I know this is weird, but I don't have a person or a work that has influenced my style, the subjects I usually portray and even my art. But I can show you some reasons that led me to be who I am today. and doing what I do. Of course, within these reasons, I can give some examples, And that's exactly what we're going to see in this class: artists looking to raise the representativeness of black...”
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Course summary for: Digital Painting and Portraiture for Black Skin
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Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing
Wilno Fakie
A course by Wilno Fakie
Wilno António, better known as Fakie Art or Wilno Fakie, is a self-taught digital artist specializing in portraits of black people. After creating an artistic profile on Instagram in 2017, he realized that most creators did not make characters from this ethnic group, which is what motivated him to turn his attention to this group. He believes that his art, which combines realism with characteristics from the cartoon genre, is a means of expressing himself beyond words, in addition to inspiring other creators to include African beauty in their work.
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- Level: Beginner
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