Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light
Offered By: Domestika
Course Description
Overview
Learn how to breathe life into a character sketch through color and light with Adobe Photoshop
The illustrator and character designer, Joel Santana, will walk you through his whole creative process, from the moment he scans his drawings to when he exports the finished product for printing or digital media. Throughout the course, you'll learn how to make the most of Adobe Photoshop to breathe life into your character sketches.
- Introduction
- Painting Fundamentals and Exercises
- Character Digital Painting
- Finishing touches and effects
- Final project
The illustrator and character designer, Joel Santana, will walk you through his whole creative process, from the moment he scans his drawings to when he exports the finished product for printing or digital media. Throughout the course, you'll learn how to make the most of Adobe Photoshop to breathe life into your character sketches.
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Influences
- What We Will Do in the Course
- Our Workspace and Brushes
- Sphere Studies - Color, Light and Shadows
- Sphere Studies - Modifications
- Sphere Studies - Textures and Blur
- Creating a Moodboard and Importing Our Character Sketch
- Masking Our Character
- Flatting Our Character
- Defining Placement of Keylight
- Values and Color - White Fur
- Values and Color - the Gun
- Values and Color - Refining the Fur
- Refining Lights, Shadows and Textures - Gauntlets
- Finalizing the Image - Final Details, Glow and Blur
- Finalizing the Image - Highlights and Shadows
- Finalizing the Image - color editing and export
- Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light
Taught by
Joel Santana
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