Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Learn how to breathe life into a character sketch through color and light with Adobe Photoshop

• Introduction
• Painting Fundamentals and Exercises
• Character Digital Painting
• Finishing touches and effects
• Final project

Adding realism and depth to a character drawing can be a real challenge for an illustrator, and it's usually what separates a simple sketch from a full-blown character illustration. The combination of color, light, and texture is what brings a character to life and, in this Domestika course, you'll learn the techniques to master them in your digital paintings.

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
• 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