Illustration

Challenge: Draw a Character in 5 Minutes Using Photoshop

Joel Santana, the character designer and illustrator, faces the Domestika Challenge

Joel Santana's career (@themaddhattr) extends from illustrations for advertising campaigns, to packaging and toy design. He has developed projects for well-known brands such as Walt Disney World Orlando and Champs Sports. But now he faces a challenge he has never faced before...

In this Domestika Challenge, the illustrator only has five minutes to draw a character from scratch using a graphic tablet and Photoshop. Will he succeed? Find out in the next video:

If you liked this challenge with Joel Santana, remember that you can learn to bring your character sketches to life through color and light with Photoshop in his online course Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light.

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