Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits
Aspects of Illumination
A course by user237671 surname237671 , Graphic Designer and Digital Illustrator
Joined August 2015
Perfect your digital illustration techniques and learn to tell stories through portraits
Joined August 2015
About the video: Aspects of Illumination
Overview
“Here the course starts to get much more interesting. In this lesson I will review some illustrations and drawings of artists that I follow. I will explain the light conditions that their works have. I will explain how to determine the tone of light and shadow in an illustration, using the color wheel to better understand the exercise. In the end, I'm going to do a practice with basic forms to put into practice what I saw in the lesson.”
In this video lesson user237671 surname237671 addresses the topic: Aspects of Illumination, 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
“As I told you before, This is the coolest and most bacana part of the course. In this lesson I will show you illustrations of some artists and then I'm going to do an exercise through the color wheel to know how to determine the tone of the shadow and the illustration depending on the light conditions that we put on. If you want, let's see the exercise. This is the most important part of the course. Here the magic of the illustrations is condensed. Let's see a series of examples of how the lights and shadows are explained. Let's start with this image on the left. It's from Aykut Aydogdu. Is...”
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Course summary for: Digital Techniques for Illustrated Portraits
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration
A course by user237671 surname237671
Germán González is a graphic designer trained at the Pontifical Bolivarian University, although in 2014 he discovered digital illustration and since then he has used it to create portraits of the protagonists of his favorite films and series, adding all kinds of visual references and an explosion of color very characteristic of his work.
He works as a graphic designer at Parque Explora, a science museum in the city of Medellín, Colombia, a job that he combines with his activity as an independent illustrator, collaborating with local and foreign publications.
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