Guided project: Create fantastic portraits in Photoshop

Guided Project: Photoshop Fantasy Portrait

“Magical Portraits: Bring characters to life with emotion, light and fantasy In this project, you'll put everything you've learned into practice to create a digital portrait full of personality, symbolism, and a touch of fantasy. You can draw inspiration from imaginary worlds, someone close to you, or even yourself. You'll work with light, color, textures, and brushes to create a unique illustration, ready to share or print. Don't know where to start? Don't worry, we've got several ideas to inspire you. 1. Portrait with magical objects of someone you know Description: Think of someone close to you—it could be a family member, a friend, your partner, or even yourself—and create a digital portrait that blends reality and fantasy. Add details that represent them: their favorite mug, a plant they always care for, that color they always wear, their pet, or any object that defines them. The challenge is to transform these everyday elements into magical symbols. Project example: Portray your sister as an urban magician with a scarf that blows in the wind, a cat with glowing eyes, and a coffee cup that emits enchanted smoke. 2. Elemental Goddess: Portrait Inspired by Nature Description: Create a female character inspired by one of the four elements: water, fire, earth, or air. Explore how that element feels and how it can be represented with colors, textures, shapes, and accessories. This exercise helps you experiment with different palettes and give personality to your portraits through natural symbolism. Project example: A fire goddess with a mane of flames, golden eyes, and glowing tattoos. 3. Marine muse: underwater portrait Description: Imagine an underwater scene and design a character who lives in that world. You can play with bubbles, filtered light, moving fabric, and soft textures. This is ideal for practicing how light affects color in a different environment and for exploring a serene, ethereal, and dreamy atmosphere. Project example: A mermaid with shell accessories, flowing hair, and luminous fish swimming around. 4. Fantastic self-portrait with your unique style Description: What if you were a character from another world? Create a free-form self-portrait, where you can play with your style, create a magical outfit, add elements that identify you, and exaggerate features or emotions. A great opportunity to work on your visual identity, practice likeness, and unleash your imagination. Project example: A fantastical version of yourself as the guardian of a floating library, with glowing glasses and a notebook that flies by your side. 5. Symbolic character: portrays a positive emotion Description: Design a portrait that represents an emotion or quality you'd like to convey: joy, calm, curiosity, courage, love, freedom... Think about how to translate that feeling into colors, poses, expressions, and accessories. This project is perfect for working from intuition and developing an emotional connection with your illustration. Project example: A character representing inner peace, surrounded by moons, soft clouds, and slowly growing plants. ”

Course summary for: Guided project: Create fantastic portraits in Photoshop

• Level: Beginner
• 11 students
• 1 unit
• 11 lessons (2h 48m)
• 16 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration