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Skillshare

Expressive Portraits: Find Your Style in Mixed Media & Adobe Fresco

via Skillshare

Overview

Have you ever wondered — what makes a portrait expressive and emotional? How to find your unique style as an artist, illustrator, or designer? Let’s find out by exploring three different techniques in Mixed Media and Adobe Fresco.

This course is for you if you’re an illustrator, artist, or designer and want to give your work personality and dramatic interest. The emotional response to your art will grow!

 Lessons include:

  • Materials Overview
  • What makes a good Portrait?
  • Finding your Style
  • Inspiration
  • Warm-up Sketches
  • Inks, Gouache and Pastel
  • Watercolor and Gold Leaf
  • Adobe Fresco Overview
  • Digital Watercoloring
  • Sketching in Adobe Fresco
  • Atmospheric Painting in Adobe Fresco

 

Syllabus

  • Intro
  • Materials
  • What Makes a Good Portrait? Inspiration!
  • Finding Your Style
  • Warm-up Sketches
  • Style I : Shining Mind
  • Details and Final Touches
  • Style II : Fashion Poetry
  • Watercolor Painting
  • Applying Gold Leaf
  • Adobe Fresco Overview
  • Digital Sketch Watercolor
  • Style III : Animal Spirit
  • Digital Painting and Final Touches
  • Your Task
  • Final Thoughts

Taught by

Anna Sokolova

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