Character Design for Concept Art
Light and color
A course by J.Alexander Guillen , Concept Artist, Illustrator, and Sketcher
Joined June 2017
About the video: Light and color
Overview
“In this lesson, before I start painting, I will make a compilation about the light and color that I will use to paint.”
In this video lesson J.Alexander Guillen addresses the topic: Light and color, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Design for Concept Art. Learn to create your own protagonists with no limit but your own imagination.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] Well, in this lesson that is light and color what we are going to do is gather all the information which will be useful for us to paint the character, and a little [Inaudible] for it as our character It's in a desert, let's look all possible references about a desert, what is going to be daytime in this case, what are going to be skies floors, stones, reflective metals, it will be a whole set that we will have on a sheet too, with all possible references and then put them to paint, So let's do it. Well, let's start this three unit of light and color as I have done with references I ...”
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Course summary for: Character Design for Concept Art
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Concept Art, Digital Illustration, Game Design, Traditional illustration, Video Games

J.Alexander Guillen
A course by J.Alexander Guillen
Digital and concept artist J. Alexander Guillen works in the film and video game industry designing a whole host of characters and their backdrops. He has been collaborating with companies such as Filmax Animation, Epic Games, Grin, Post23, Digital Domain, and Ubisoft for over a decade and his work has appeared in books and magazines including 2DArtMagazine, Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting, Concept Magazine, and The Art of Alexander.
His work consists of distilling the ideas of creative directors, producers, and his own dreams and nightmares into images.
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