Digital Character Painting with Procreate
Color
A course by Erick Hernández Anda , Illustrator
About the video: Color
Overview
“To finish this unit, you will learn how to apply color to the character in a modular and organized way, this will allow you to make changes to parts of the character without having to affect the whole piece.”
In this video lesson Erick Hernández Anda addresses the topic: Color, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Character Painting with Procreate. Illustrate characters like a pro by playing with backgrounds, lighting, texture, and color.
Partial transcription of the video
“Colour Now that we have all the shading and rendering, now we are going to color our character part by part. The first thing to do is ... Here the character is already colored. Now I'm going to show you how we got to this point. It can be in two ways: drawing the Blend Modes, Overlay, Soft Light, etc., or using gradient maps. I did this with Overlay and with Soft Light. Right now we are going to try to do it with gradient maps. We will start with the face. It is in black and white, so we will use gradient. This is the base, it is very good. The only thing we are going to do is color both th...”
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Course summary for: Digital Character Painting with Procreate
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Category
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Software
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Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Erick Hernández Anda
A course by Erick Hernández Anda
Erick Hernández is from Aguascalientes, Mexico and has been working as a freelance digital illustrator since 2017. He has worked with clients around the globe on projects like book cover illustrations, character illustrations for video games, animation of illustrations, and more.
He has been actively involved with video game developers, which nurtures his passion for fantasy and science fiction. His most recent work includes character illustrations for Halberd Studios.
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