
Apply a base color and build shadows in Photoshop to create a realistic pencil portrait; master selection, layer masks, and a grayscale background to focus on shading.
Find a reference to follow along and ignite inspiration as you learn shading and brushstrokes for artwork. Start with a simplified reference to build confidence and ease into shading.
Digital art is getting to good that you can draw and imitate the kind of art style you want. A lot of artists has come up with a way of archiving traditional art style with digital medium but i have not seen a nice pencil artwork made out of Photoshop or any digital software that look like traditional pencil art. In this course i am going to show you how to archive that with Photoshop and you can also use or transfer this technique into another digital art software. Hi Am Mac, am a Digital Artist, I use photoshop and clip studio paint for my art. my art style is based on portrait and stylized portrait. in the course i will teach you how to create a satisfied digital pencil portrait in Photoshop that look like a traditional pencil portrait. We will start by understanding your software, how to create your own brush you will be using for shading, then we will understand values and how to start shading our portrait step by step. At the end of this lesson you will be able to create your own pencil portrait using Photoshop. This class is for intermediate but a beginner can take this course that is if you go through my previous course on how to sketch digitally in Photoshop.