Illustration Masterclass: Live Oil Painting Techniques in Adobe Fresco

This course introduces Adobe Fresco’s Live Oil brushes through demonstrations of layering, opacity, color mixing, blending, texture creation, portrait detailing, and custom oil brush design.

Syllabus

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Getting started with live oil brushes in Fresco
Demoing the thin layering and opacity of the live oil brushes
Increasing oil paint thickness - changing opacity for variation
Explaining how mixing works
Mixing strength to add variation to color blending
Keeping previous colors on the brush with new strokes
Pressure dynamics and customization
Velocity dynamics
Sending suggestions to the Fresco team via the app interface
Creating texture using the smudge tool
Blending oils without colors on the brush
Using the smudge tool to paint in canvas details
Adding color with color layer mode
Demoing the oil paint chunky brush - creating an oil brush
Detailing the portrait with oil brushes
Creating custom oil brush