Principles of Digital Paiting for Portraits (Principios de pintura digital para retratos – Spanish, Eng Subs)

Learn to master lighting, shadowing, and coloring techniques to bring your illustrations to life
Adding realism to digital painting by combining shape and depth can be a true challenge for an artist. Using different drawing techniques, Peruvian illustrator and concept artist Rodrigo Rivas creates lifelike compositions that are transformed into unique portraits.

In this course, Rodrigo guides you through all the concepts and tools you need to create a realistic digital illustration. Start by learning about the artistic concepts behind light and shadows and see how to use them to add volume and depth to your compositions. Explore your imagination and turn your ideas into reality.

Get started by getting to know Rodrigo’s professional career, his artistic influences, and the main techniques he uses for digital painting. Then, go through everything you will learn in this course, including an overview of the final project.

In the second unit, discover the basic principles of light, shadow, and color—the key elements of portrait art. Take a tour of Photoshop by exploring its interface and setting up keyboard shortcuts to get the most out of the software.

It’s time to get down to business and start creating your digital portrait. Make a mood board that will serve as a reference for making your first sketches of the face in Photoshop. Then, map the lights and shadows of your image.

Create volume and depth in your portrait by painting shades of gray and then adding color. Rodrigo shares some tricks and tips he uses for choosing a color palette and adding details.

In the last unit, make some final adjustments to highlights and secondary highlights using the Color Dodge technique and start adjusting tonal values. Finally, learn the best way to export your image.