Character Digital Painting: Creating Magical Scenes

Setting Up: Basic Composition and Color Ideas 1

A course by Georgi Georgiev , Illustrator and Visual Artist

98% positive reviews (125)

3,541 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Setting Up: Basic Composition and Color Ideas 1

Overview

“In this lesson, we are going to create 3-4 thumbnails, which will represent different ideas and compositions for our illustration. ”

In this video lesson Georgi Georgiev addresses the topic: Setting Up: Basic Composition and Color Ideas 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Digital Painting: Creating Magical Scenes. Learn to create unique digital paintings from scratch filled with light, color, and a touch of magic in Photoshop.

Partial transcription of the video

“Setting Up: Basic Composition and Color Ideas In this lesson, we'll make three or four small drawings that will help us pick the best idea for our illustration. Let's create a new file, File, New. Let's pick a size, for example, 1500 pixels wide, and 1200 high, A relatively small size for a sketch. Let's hit Create. Here is our new file, let's zoom in a bit. Now we just start throwing some ideas on the canvas. Create new layer. I like to quickly colorize some stuff with gray like this. Then, start drawing over it. Maybe do some kind of horizon line over here in the center. A bit of a sky so...”

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Course summary for: Character Digital Painting: Creating Magical Scenes

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (125)
3541 students
4 units
22 lessons (5h 9m)
7 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Georgi Georgiev

A course by Georgi Georgiev

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Illustrator and Visual Artist

Georgi Georgiev is an illustrator and visual artist from Bulgaria. Despite having worked as a professional artist for over a decade, he started out studying law. After realizing it wasn’t his passion and becoming inspired by a comic book his friend introduced him to, he discovered his real calling: drawing. From there, he began teaching himself how to draw digitally through online tutorials and posting his work on art forums. He was quickly offered a job, which allowed him to quit law school and pursue his career as an artist.

Now Georgi works in the movie and game industry, creating everything from characters to magical worlds. He is known for designing characters with paper-like hair which he shares with over 50K followers on Instagram, and he has also designed book covers.