The Portrait Masters | The Imagination Series by Richard Wood

Richard Wood returns to the Portrait Masters to share his creative techniques that have brought him worldwide recognition for his artistic portraiture.

He invites you to enthusiastically explore your own creativity and encourages you to try his techniques to open new pathways of your imagination.

He also encourages you to have fun and trust the process—you may uncover unexpected and innovative themes in your creative photography work.

Richard guides you through his creative process from inception to fruition, beginning with the seed of an idea through six beautiful photo shoots and post-production process for each shoot.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

1. TECHNIQUES FOR EXPLORING AND EXPANDING ON YOUR IDEAS

Richard shows you how he builds on his inspirations, exploring mentally, visually, and through subconscious association to stretch the limits of your creative imagination.

2.HOW TO SOURCE AND CREATE STUNNING WARDROBE PIECES

3.TIPS FOR BRINGING YOUR ARTISTIC VISION TO FRUITION

Learn a technique to push beyond self-limiting beliefs and follow along with Richard’s process from inception of an idea to completion of a series of beautiful artistic images.

DOWNLOADABLE MATERIALS ALSO INCLUDED WITH THIS COURSE:

1. CHARACTER CAPES

A step-by-step guide to creating character capes as utilized in many of Richard’s otherworldly character portraits.

2. HALO CROWN BLUEPRINT

A step-by-step guide to constructing headdresses for your subjects to wear.

3. CREATIVE IDEA WORKBOOK

Print at home this 32-page workbook that you can use to expand upon and grow your ideas from an initial spark into elaborated visual themes.

In this course, we take an original inspiration through several techniques for generating dominant and divergent ideas. We confront our fear of failure and learn how to dialogue with it in order to propel us even further in our quest to discover new and innovative ways to think and represent our inspirations.

“WE ARE ATTRACTED TO THE NEW. PEOPLE APPRECIATE MORE WHAT THEY HAVE NOT SEEN BEFORE OR SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN DONE IN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT WAY THAN ANYTHING THEY’VE SEEN BEFORE.”

–Richard Wood