Portrait Painting #2
0-AInstructor: Diana Dillion
Description
This class is a continuation of Diana’s Portrait Painting – Part I class. It is designed to help the student go beyond the techniques taught in Portrait Painting – Part I. Learn how to really put life and character into your portraits by painting skin with texture! Also involved will be learning how to paint peoples “laugh lines”! : Yes, we will deal with painting wrinkles! Learn how to paint youthful portraits, making babies and children look more painterly by enhancing details that make them who they are in a painterly way.
Diana will show you exciting techniques for converting your painting that you painted in her Portrait One class, or a finished portrait that you already have, into a Charcoal painting! “Wow” your clients and friends with this very popular style of Black and White or Sepia toned paintings!
This class will cover texturizing paintings, adding new and different backgrounds with the use of Photoshop and Painter to create a masterpiece of your imagination! Place your subject in a background that is unique to them as a person, or create a fantasy background that will come to life with different textures, special papers, and special techniques to take your portrait paintings above and beyond my first class in Portrait Painting – Part I.
Diana will also teach you how to enhance your portraits with basic embellishments! Take your painting to the highest level of finishing by adding even more depth and texture with this process! By applying just a few products you will have a painting that resembles the look and feel of a traditional work of art.
Skill Level
Intermediate
Software Requirements
- ® Corel Painter 9.5 or higher
- ® Photoshop 7 or higher
Hardware Requirements
- A computer capable of running ®Corel Painter and ®Adobe Photoshop
- A Pen tablet is highly recommended.
Course Gallery
Before Class
Prerequisites: Although not a must, it is highly recommended that you take “Portrait Painting – Part I with Diana Dillion” BEFORE this class – OR, if you already have portrait painting skills we invite you to learn a continuation of exciting and different ways you can enhance, improve, and take your paintings to the next level. Students must also have a good basic knowledge of Painter and Photoshop, like how to open and save files, how to choose brushes, etc.
Week One
Getting Started
- Backgrounds – Using other pictures and textures to enhance backgrounds.
- Put your subject on a background that brings out their personality!
Week Two
Painting skin
- Painting skin with texture emphasis on wrinkles and older people’s skin.
- How to make babies smooth skin look more painterly
Week Three
Learning about light
- A continuation of painting skin with texture. You will learn how different papers can be utilized to add texture to skin.
- Painting men’s “five o’clock shadows” and freckles.
- Learn how to create your own direction of light to add depth on photos taken with an on-camera flash.
Week Four
Embellishment and charcoal exercise
- Make your painting come alive with embellishments.
- Converting your painting into a Charcoal painting.
Diana has a very easy to follow methodical approach to painting portraits, whether it is pet painting or people portraits. I find her style works well for me. She uses great brushes, and her movies are thorough and to the point. I would gladly take future painting classes by Diana.
Diana is a superb instructor and teacher. So giving and I have loved every class with her and look forward to taking more classes in future.
I have done several other online classes with various other organizations, and I have to say that the DAA are the most professional, organized, and stress free out of all the classes I have ever done. I just love doing them and can’t wait for more. The teachers are wonderful and the lessons are very easy to download. I enjoyed the classes and have grown in leaps and bounds. Thank You Sooooooo Much DAA.
Loved learning how to express creativity a bit further to add some pizzzaz to the end painting.
DAA has the most wonderful, caring and sharing teachers. Their classes are simply the BEST.
Diana is a loving and very giving teacher and oh so supportive. I love that she made me stretch this time around by going out of my comfort zone. I learned so much and am building on the lessons every day. This was the best class I’ve taken so far.
I cannot say enough about DAA. It is such a wonderful place to learn and grow as a digital artist. The teachers and staff are first rate and second to none. I would recommend DAA to anyone interested in learning something new and fun.
Diana has so many little tips and tricks, and gives us so many resources – I think I have to say I have loved it all.
DAA is amazing. Without DAA it would be very difficult to learn as much as I have learned, especially living in South Africa. Thank you Karen for providing a wonderful, wonderful web site.
A lot of participation in this class. Diana is a fabulous teacher and each weeks lesson contained a lot of useful wonderful information.
This is a terrific program. A really great way to learn and the interaction between classmates adds to the pleasure. It’s wonderful to be able to see everyone’s progress as they work through the classes and have the feedback from classmates as well as the teacher! I love DAA!
This class was greater than my expectations. Diane is a wonderful teacher. I have taken all her class and I have received a wealth of knowledge. I am waiting to sign up for her next class. Great work Diane.
DAA is a fantastic way to learn Painter, and at your own convenience. DAA has courses for the novice to experienced, and the teachers all are great and very helpful if you should hit a problem or question.
The lessons are concise allowing an easy to follow fun challenge with rewarding results. Diana’s videos along with her comprehensive lessons are outstanding… nothing is left out. Also, Diana is very quick to reviews and questions.. wonderful response turnaround. Looking forward to future classes with Diana.
Diana – I can’t express enough how much I’ve enjoyed your classes. I am so impressed with the amount of information you’ve shared and all the extra bits including working with color, embellishing, right through to enlarging… great package, great delivery! I, like so many others, have discovered this passion to create perhaps a little late in the game. My introduction to Painter and Photoshop has been a wonderful journey in so many aspects allowing me the challenges of learning and expression. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some pretty wonderful and talented people I would have missed out on if not for this vehicle. Again, thank you and most certainly will see you in any of your new classes
Diana continued to be very diligent in this class as well as all her others that I have taken. She is kind, helpful and encouraging in her critiques and answering our questions. I especially loved learning her techniques of enhancing the portraits and making them painterly. Fantastic class. I feel like I just painted the best portraits I have ever done with her help and instruction.
I have had nothing but excellent experiences with the teaching and the class participation at DAA. The teachers are of the very highest caliber and always encouraging. Fantastic experience to learn with class participation as well as the personal critiques from the teachers. Its almost like someone looking over your shoulder guiding you to be your best.
It was a great class with an excellent teacher. The lessons where easy to follow. I learned so much. Thank you.