Lynda - Photoshop - Bert Monroy - The Making of Times Square - Volume 3 - The People

Take a virtual journey to the bustling streets of New York in Bert Monroy: The Making of Times Square. Digital painter Bert Monroy reveals how he created the minute details that build the impressive 108,000 x 21,600 pixel, 25-foot wide photorealistic portrait of this iconic intersection.

In this installment, The People, Bert illustrates how he created the hyperrealistic portrayals of the dozens of people inhabiting his painting, many of which he drew from real-life friends and family. The course shows how to construct eyes, lips, ears, and other facial features, paint natural looking skin, add hair, apply makeup, and create fabric folds, stitching, and texture to emulate clothing. Bert shows how digital artists can recreate these effects at home, using the tools in Photoshop and Illustrator and a little imagination.

Topics include:

Creating life-like facial features, such as noses, teeth, lips  

Understanding the structure of the mouth  

Creating facial contours  

Adding details such as fingernails  

Using a Cintiq to create realistic hair  

Creating beard stubble  

Creating the look of stitched denim  

Adding ribbing to a t-shirt  

Author: Bert Monroy

Subjects: Design Illustration Design Techniques Digital Painting

Software: Illustrator Photoshop

Level: Intermediate

Duration: 3h 18m

Released Apr 27, 2011

Volume 1 - The Tools: torrents.php?id=2129&torrentid=2126#torrent2126

Volume 2 - The Techniques: