Digital Portraits - Illustrating Photos into Abstract Art

Getting a Base photo is the foundation to the final illustration.

This lesson helps in evaluating which photograph to consider and what attributes to look for while making your choice.

This lessons details put how to setup a canvas and what dimensions to pick.

Also it ensures how to compose and frame your image within the canvas so to ensure correct composition.

Picking a correct Brush and size is important as it lays the foundation for your base artwork.

This lesson walkthrough the process of creating a Base Skeleton of your artwork with emphasis on closing the lines creating enclosed shapes.

Further it details how to construct abstract forms within the portrait.

Picking a correct Brush and size is important as it lays the foundation for your base artwork. This lesson walkthrough the process of creating a Base Skeleton of your artwork with emphasis on closing the lines creating enclosed shapes.

Further it details how to construct abstract forms within the portrait.

This lessons helps in drafting shadows and highlights over your artwork creating the dramatic effect giving rich identity and colour to the base coats.

This lesson focuses on detailing your artwork with fine lines and refining the parts to create abstract areas.

It highlights the techniques by which you can transform your mistakes for the better good to enhance parts of your artwork.

Building textures magnifies your artwork from the flat idea to concept with depth.

This lessons helps in discovering textures and creatively using them to achieve depth layers across various parts of your final art piece.

Exploring alternate colour schematics including inverting your artwork to create dynamic effects and ideas whereas using layer adjustments to define colour, levelling brightness and tuning saturation to achieve the final piece to you heart's desire.