Learn to combine traditional techniques and digital retouching with Photoshop
In this course, illustrator and artist Ana Santos will teach you the technique she uses to create her wonderful illustrated watercolor portraits, step by step. Ana enjoys the immediacy of watercolors, the spontaneity of results, and how easy it is to mix it with other materials or for mixed techniques.
In this course, discover her methodology, both analog and digital, which she usually combines in her compositions. Using a photograph as the starting point, she will teach you to immortalize expressive looks, melancholic gestures, and how to add organic or imaginative motifs to enrich your design and give it an original look.
Domestika - Illustrated Portrait in Watercolor
Learn to combine traditional techniques and digital retouching with Photoshop
In this course, illustrator and artist Ana Santos will teach you the technique she uses to create her wonderful illustrated watercolor portraits, step by step. Ana enjoys the immediacy of watercolors, the spontaneity of results, and how easy it is to mix it with other materials or for mixed techniques.
In this course, discover her methodology, both analog and digital, which she usually combines in her compositions. Using a photograph as the starting point, she will teach you to immortalize expressive looks, melancholic gestures, and how to add organic or imaginative motifs to enrich your design and give it an original look.
Domestika - Artist's Sketchbook for Illustration Projects
https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/1113-artist-s-sketchbook-for-illustration-projects
Document your creative process to the final sketch and use your sketchbook as a personal archive Researching, collecting, planning... that's the key to learning and laying the foundation for any creative process. What if it all resides in your sketchbook? Go back to this handmade process and collect your notes together with the sketches to see, step by step, your creations come to life on paper. Illustrator Aleix Gordo Hostau, known for his comics, designs, murals, and illustrations for clients such as Nike, Converse, Vans, Porsche, or Amazon, is also a teacher and will show you how important the sketchbook is in his projects.
Learn to interpret and illustrate with satire, finding your identity as an illustrator
Finding a personal style and applying it to an illustration respecting the natural essence and the objective of it is important when it is also a portrait. The renowned artist Augusto Costhanzo, has a very defined style and marked by humor. He takes his illustrations as a portraitist and incorporates satire comfortably intelligently.
In this course, Costhanzo will teach you to find your world view and transform it into insolent and personal, so that later you can apply it to a portrait.Learn how to capture the essence of Renaissance masters in your photos
With a camera and a computer you can not only create scenes, but also new worlds, something in which Lídia Vives specializes. The Spanish photographer gets inspiration from the great Italian masters of the Renaissance to create realistic and surrealist works in equal parts, as she has shown in the different exhibitions she has done in Mexico, Spain and France.
In this course you will learn, by the hand of Lídia, photo retouching techniques and art direction to create your own portraits of Renaissance pictorial style.
https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/264-realistic-portrait-with-graphite-pencil
Learn the basics and technique to create realistic anatomical drawings Painter and expert anatomy artist Diego Catalán is as passionate about realism as he is about fantasy and horror. His incredible portraits emerge from this eclectic mix as well as the inspiration he draws from the classical masters. Diego works with a range of techniques, but finds the greatest expression in graphite as it allows him to work in maximum detail and with an understanding of the light and structure of the human anatomy. In this course, learn how to draw a realistic portrait in pencil using a model. Diego explains a wide range of technical concepts, from composition and the anatomy of the head, to modeling and adding texture. Discover all the skills you need to make your own realistic portrait with graphite.
Domestika - Professional Portrait Retouching with Photoshop
https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/1996-professional-portrait-retouching-with-photoshop/course
Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for editing images and is perfect for anyone who wants to optimize their workflow and meet their clients' needs. Master the art of digital retouching in Photoshop with this 5-course Domestika Basics. Join designer and photo editing expert Robson Batista and learn how to edit portraits to produce professional-quality images. In the first course, get familiar with the photo retouching process in Adobe Photoshop. Explore the program's interface and see how to customize settings, keyboard shortcuts, and color profiles. Next, learn how to use Adobe Camera Raw to process original files and adjust colors.
Domestika - Realistic Portrait with Graphite Pencil
https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/264-realistic-portrait-with-graphite-pencil
Learn the basics and technique to create realistic anatomical drawings Painter and expert anatomy artist Diego Catalán is as passionate about realism as he is about fantasy and horror. His incredible portraits emerge from this eclectic mix as well as the inspiration he draws from the classical masters. Diego works with a range of techniques, but finds the greatest expression in graphite as it allows him to work in maximum detail and with an understanding of the light and structure of the human anatomy. In this course, learn how to draw a realistic portrait in pencil using a model. Diego explains a wide range of technical concepts, from composition and the anatomy of the head, to modeling and adding texture. Discover all the skills you need to make your own realistic portrait with graphite.
Domestika – Creative Portrait Illustration with Procreate
https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/1224-creative-portrait-illustration-with-procreate
Learn how to combine lettering and abstract elements in your digital portraits
Procreate has changed the game for artists today, gone are the days when you had to wait for paint to dry before adding on a new layer, now it’s all in your hands. Samuel Rodriguez, renowned artist in the California art community, has leveraged this app’s full capacity, creating stunning digital portraits. He depicts the diverse mix of cultures around him with creative flair, balance and style.
Delve into his world, where he combines his graffiti background and studies in Fine Arts, to seamlessly infuse abstract art into digital portraits. In this course, you’ll harness the power of Procreate to give your portrait illustrations a creative, abstract twist by using color, lettering, and shapes. Learn through his own methodology to compose your creative digital portraits from start to finish.