Make vibrant low-poly portraits

Master the art of low poly with selecting and filling techniques

Low-poly portraiture is one of the most popular digital art forms on the internet. It’s almost a throwback to old video-game graphics, and many assume that it’s created with the aid of 3D software; failing that, Adobe Illustrator is a great tool for such illustrations. Photoshop Elements can also be used to create a low-poly picture, though, as you don’t even need the Pen tool. Low poly simply relies on triangles, which you can create with the Polygonal Lasso; for an artistic style that is both extremely time-consuming and ambitious, it’s somewhat ironic that it can be achieved by arguably the two simplest of Elements functions: selecting and filling. Just because selecting and filling is easy though, it doesn’t mean that this project can be completed quickly. You’ll have to create hundreds…

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