Course overview
- Provider
- Domestika
- Course type
- Paid course
- Level
- Beginner
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Lessons
- 13 lessons
- Certificate
- Available on completion
- Course author
- Maria Picassó i Piquer
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The magic behind all portraiture is in capturing the personality of the person portrayed, exactly what María Picassó i Piquer, illustrator and caricaturist, manages to draw people with geometric and vector forms. His portraits of movie characters, music bands and historical figures have been internationally recognized.
In this course he will teach you how to illustrate vectorial portraits with geometric technique, achieving a similarity and a unique expression, step by step.
Description
To begin, you will know the trajectory of Maria Picassó i Piquer and how she came to develop her style of vector geometric illustration.
You will know his main influences between caricature, illustration and design, and he will also recommend books that will help you capture and capture the resemblance of a person.
Next, you will learn to capture the essence of your subject through the secret of the caricature: observation; and also, the criteria to internalize your character through research and references. In the end, you will draw the first sketch in that search for capturing the portrayed in the simplest way.
At this point, you will learn to recognize other elements to create a more expressive portrait, beyond the features of the face.
You will elaborate a palette of colors and textures to pose the composition of the illustration and you will see how to make a basic composition of the face with geometric shapes.
María will guide you with the final touches of your illustrated portrait so that it has balance, coherence and impact.
At the end, in this course you will have learned to illustrate a vectorial portrait of your character, achieving maximizing the similarity and expressivity with the minimum expression.
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