Digital Painting and Portraiture for Black Skin

Refine and finalize the sketch

A course by Wilno Fakie , Digital Artist

Digital Artist. Lisbon, Portugal.
Joined November 2019
100% positive reviews (21)
432 students
Audio: Portuguese
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About the video: Refine and finalize the sketch

Overview

“Ready! We already have the first part of the sketch and we can start putting more details on the characters. This first part of the process was to create a good foundation and structure for the drawing. I know that visually it doesn't always look very nice, but it's extremely necessary before moving on to the next step. It is very important to know where to put each thing before going deeper and finishing a drawing. In this second part, you'll see how I keep adding more and more details to the characters and giving more meaning to the shapes. Still, I always remember the tools like "Liquify" that can help tweak some things at the end. A tip: I always work with "Zoom in" to be easier to adjust the details, but I also tend to "Zoom out" and see the far image together, because I know that if it works small, it will also work big. Here you will also see in practice how I use "Liquify" to make small changes to my drawing in a super easy way and without having to redo it. ”

In this video lesson Wilno Fakie addresses the topic: Refine and finalize the sketch, 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

“Refine and finalize the sketch In this class, we will finish our sketch. Let's start adding some more details to our drawing. Let's start here with the middle one and start with the nose. Maybe like this. None of this I'm doing is just coming from my head. I have enough references here to base myself and make this drawing. This is the zoom in problem, I was already doing a lot of details, but I just want to make basic shapes and build my drawing. So let's get away not to focus here on the details, but on the general form of our design. In order not to draw the other eye, I'm going to copy i...”

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Course summary for: Digital Painting and Portraiture for Black Skin

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (21)
  • 432 students
  • 5 units
  • 25 lessons (5h 21m)
  • 12 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Software

    Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing

Wilno Fakie

Wilno Fakie
A course by Wilno Fakie

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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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Digital Painting and Portraiture for Black Skin. Illustration course by Wilno Fakie

Digital Painting and Portraiture for Black Skin

A course by Wilno Fakie
Digital Artist. Lisbon, Portugal.
Joined November 2019
  • 100% positive reviews (21)
  • 432 students