Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop
Designing a Character: How to Start
A course by Fernanda Suarez , Digital Illustrator and Character Designer
About the video: Designing a Character: How to Start
Overview
“In this lesson, I will introduce the first steps in my creative process to develop a character. I will share some key tips and tricks that will help you to create your own.”
In this video lesson Fernanda Suarez addresses the topic: Designing a Character: How to Start, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop. Learn digital painting techniques to create detailed character portraits by exploring brushes, colors, values, and designs.
Partial transcription of the video
“We will start to shape the universe in which our character will unfold. In this lesson I will show you a few tips on discovering the conflict and the type of mood you want for your piece. But first, I would like to show you what we will be doing in this course. Our final project will consist of the painting of a character, We will design a concept for it first. Then we will try to build in our minds a character that has its own personality and feels real. Finally, we will go over the technique to paint digitally using brushes, layers and adjustments in Photoshop. Our final project will cons...”
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Course summary for: Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop
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Adobe Photoshop -
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Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting
Fernanda Suarez
A course by Fernanda Suarez
Fernanda Suarez is an Illustrator and character designer from Santiago, Chile. After studying visual arts at the University of Chile, she discovered her passion for digital art. After graduating, she started working freelance, with her very first client being Paizo Pathfinder. She has since built a large following online, with over 257K followers on Instagram.
She currently works as a freelance illustrator, and has worked on various projects for a wide range of clients, from board games with Plaid Hat Games, like Dead of Winter or Ashes, to book covers and commissions with Bloomsbury Publishing and Simon & Schuster Inc. Her biggest passion is painting characters that tell a story, and she loves portraying fantasy, dark, emotional themes in her work.
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