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Artistic Digital Portrait Painting
Rating: 4.4 out of 5(270 ratings)
8,952 students

Artistic Digital Portrait Painting

Concise and unique course on digitally painting photo-realistic portraits for beginners to advanced
Created byEITCA Academy
Last updated 10/2020
English
English

What you'll learn

  • Practical techniques in digital portraits painting
  • Choosing skin colours and working with a palette
  • Painting eyes, noses, lips, ears in proper anatomic proportions
  • Hair shaping and matching hairstyle to the face
  • Working with portrait photo references
  • Sculpting approach in portraits painting
  • Smart rendering in artistic digital portraits
  • Light and shadow as an aftereffect
  • Overview of useful layers
  • Asaro head planes study
  • Drawing fundamentals
  • Character and concept design
  • Comments and tips from an experienced artist
  • Perspective

Course content

10 sections • 10 lectures • 1h 18m total length

  • Choosing skin colours - creating palettes, using colour wheel for proper tones8:44

    Learn to build realistic or stylized skin tones by using the color wheel to adjust value, saturation, and hue, choosing warmer or cooler hues for depth rather than flat tones.

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of computer graphics and drawing software
  • Drawing tablet (e.g. iPad, or computer connected tablet)
  • Motivation to learn digital art

Description

A practical and complete course on painting appealing and photo-realistic digital portraits by an experienced digital artist specialized in portraiting.

The course contains 10 parts, each part under 10 minutes of video content, featuring a beginner to advanced introduction to the techniques and best practices in painting artistic digital portraits. The program of the course is following:

  1. Skin tones: choosing skin colours, creating palettes, using the colour wheel in graphic software to help choose the right tones, using non-standard colours for skin.

  2. Eyes: eye shapes and proportions, anatomy, perspective, application of shadows, walk-through of the whole process on the eye painting.

  3. Noses: nose shapes and proportions, anatomy, perspective, application of shadows, walk-through of the whole process on the nose painting.

  4. Lips: lips shapes and proportions, anatomy, perspective, application of shadows, walk-through of the whole process on the lips painting.

  5. Ears: ears shapes and proportions, anatomy, perspective, application of shadows, walk-through of the whole process on the ear painting.

  6. Hair: basic hair shaping, work from basic shapes to details, matching the hairstyle shape to the face.

  7. How to work with references (portrait edition): the use of reference photos, techniques for recreating characters from photos, useful vs. useless parts of the reference photos, using one vs. many photos, the use of 3D software.

  8. Sculpting approach to painting: painting without the use of a sketch and guide lines, "building/sculpting" the painting and treating it as clay that can be distorted, cut, rebuilt, reshaped at any time.

  9. Smart rendering: indicating when it is worth to focus on details and when it is unnecessary, deliberately leaving "unfinished" objects/parts of a painting to achieve specific results.

  10. Light and shadow as an aftereffect: adding "dramatic" light effects at the end of the painting process (when it's finished/almost finished), "saving" an average work with interesting character lighting, overview of useful layers.


Who this course is for:

  • Digital artists - beginners to advanced
  • Computer graphics designers
  • Portrait artists
  • Concept art designers
  • All who want to learn how to paint digitally

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