EITC/CG/ADPD Artistic digital portrait drawing

Introduction to digital artistic drawing of portraits; 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; Eyes: eye shapes and proportions, anatomy, perspective, application of shadows, walk-through of the whole process on the eye painting; Noses: nose shapes and proportions, anatomy, perspective, application of shadows, walk-through of the whole process on the nose painting; Lips: lips shapes and proportions, anatomy, perspective, application of shadows, walk-through of the whole process on the lips painting; Ears: ears shapes and proportions, anatomy, perspective, application of shadows, walk-through of the whole process on the ear painting; Hair: basic hair shaping, work from basic shapes to details, matching the hairstyle shape to the face; 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; 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; 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; 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.