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Digital Painting
Enfoque de un Diploma en Diseño: Muestra sobre diferentes especialidades del diseño.
STUDY LEVEL
Short Course
TUITION
USD $420
DURATION
10 weeks
INTAKES
JAN / APR / JUL / SEP
DELIVERY MODE
Online
about the course
What will you learn?
This Digital Painting course is a continuation of the Intro to Digital Painting course. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of painting in Photoshop from a top industry artist who will also teach you some tips and tricks that even many advanced digital artists don’t know!
The beauty of digital painting is its greater speed, control, and ease of experimentation and this is why it is essential for today’s industry artists. Emphasis will be placed on composition, perspective, value, colour and lighting. You will have a couple of new pieces for your portfolio that you can be proud of and you will have the skills and knowledge to create beautiful and convincing digital paintings in Photoshop.
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Graduate with an outstanding portfolio
Industry Experience
Master Coaching & Workshops
Taught by the top Concept Artist Industry Mentors.
Deep Practice
Flexible Study Options
course structure
weekly breakdown
- Week 1: Gain proficiency in a time-tested method, using Bargue plates, that will train your eyes and improve your hand skills and accuracy of perception so you can achieve a higher level of realism in your artwork.
- Week 2: Learn to break down complex images into simple shapes and understand how to create effective thumbnails in Photoshop that are easily readable and effectively communicate the essential information.
- Week 3: Become proficient working with values and learn how to control your edges so you can create more realistic and visually appealing digital paintings.
- Week 4: Understand how light works and learn the basics of rendering including Scott Robertson’s powerful “Halfway to Black” digital painting system so you can use value properly and create lifelike paintings with a true sense of form and depth.
- Week 5: Acquire essential colour theory knowledge and learn to apply it via digital live painting exercises with still life.
- Week 6: Understand how to paint environments in Photoshop and hone your skills with a series of environmental study exercises designed to improve your virtual plein air, stylization, improvisation and adaptation skills.
- Week 7: Learn to accurately render different materials such as leather, wood, metal and glass through a series of material study exercises so you can paint all types of realistic textures and materials in Photoshop.
- Week 8: Understand how to properly paint the human figure through a series of figure studies designed to level-up your basic anatomy, gesture, portrait, volume painting and skin rendering.
- Week 9: Learn essential principles of composition, imaginative realism, narrative, focal point and reference use so you can create an inspiring, effective and well-planned out digital sketch for your final project.
- Week 10: Demonstrate everything you've learned and get personalized coaching to complete a final digital illustration for your portfolio that you can be proud of.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
What do you need to apply?
- Some intermediate drawing and basic digital painting skills (use of proper perspective, proportions, shading and colour).
- Proficiency in all basic Photoshop tools.
- Ideally completed our Intro to Digital Painting and Analytical Sketching classes or have equivalent practice/experience.
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