Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature
Lights and Shadows 1
A course by Sam Nassour , Art Director and Visual Development Artist
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: Lights and Shadows 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we will add light and shadows to our character. This will help establish volume and make it look more three dimensional/real. We will choose the main light source to create a cohesive scene.”
In this video lesson Sam Nassour addresses the topic: Lights and Shadows 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature. Learn how to design an animal-based character full of emotion and personality in Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“Lights and Shadows In this lesson, we will add light and shadow to our character and pick the main light source in order to create a cohesive scene. Let's do that. I went ahead and added spots to our character on the same flat color, just to remind me that we need those in the added layer. This reference is really nice, showing us this really cool texture. We can come back later and tweak things when we need. Let's discuss adding light and shadow to make the character more dimensional. I usually do that by creating a new layer and changing the layer mode to Multiply. Now I can right click o...”
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Course summary for: Character Design: Illustrate an Expressive Creature
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration
Sam Nassour
A course by Sam Nassour
Sam Nassour is an art director and visual development artist in the animation and video game industry. Although Sam enjoyed drawing since a young child, he decided to study architecture at university, which paved new creative paths in the fields of design language and 3D space creation. Later on, he decided to pursue his real passion: creating visual characters and stories in the animation and entertainment industry.
He finds his inspiration in nature and the animal kingdom, which can always be found in his designs; whether it be through shapes, colors, or designs. Sam has worked with several major animation studios around the world, including Netflix Animation and Dreamworks TV. He is currently working on a new game project with Rovio.
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