Animated Portrait Illustration with Photoshop
How Can I Characterize the Face?
A course by Martina Hoffmann, Freelance Illustrator, Art Director, and Producer
Joined May 2021
Joined May 2021
About the video: How Can I Characterize the Face?
Overview
“In this lesson, you'll learn how to vary engineering drawing methods to create different characters. ”
In this video lesson Martina Hoffmann addresses the topic: How Can I Characterize the Face?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated Portrait Illustration with Photoshop. Discover how to draw creative characters and bring portraits to life with animated elements.
Partial transcription of the video
“How can I characterize the face? We just learned how to draw a face from the side. While I noticed, that my portrait has become more masculine, than I originally planned. I wanted to draw a female portrait with long hair. The question now is: Why does this portrait look so masculine? It's because male faces usually have fairly hard edges. The chin has a relatively hard edge, as I drew this. Those lines from the cheekbone, from the ridge of the eyebrow are often very pronounced and angular in men. When I draw a female face, I soften all those shapes. Softer curves, for example so that I let ...”
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Course summary for: Animated Portrait Illustration with Photoshop
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Category
3D & Animation, Illustration -
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Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Animated Illustration, Animation, Digital Drawing, Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration
Martina Hoffmann
A course by Martina Hoffmann
Martina Hoffmann is a Berlin-based freelance illustrator, art director, and producer of animated advertisements and short films with more than 15 years of experience. She is passionate about art in all its forms, which is reflected by the broad range of illustration styles, artistic approaches, and mediums she uses to create her projects, each with their own visual language.
She has collaborated with advertising agencies, children's publishers, and organizations in the scientific, educational, and social fields. Her animated productions are fully independent, meaning she designs and animates each piece from start to finish. Since 2005, she has been promoting her illustrations as self-published postcards, prints, and calendars through the organization Stift & Papier.
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