Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop
Basic Light and Shadow: Values, Volume, and the Importance of Light
A course by Fernanda Suarez , Digital Illustrator and Character Designer
About the video: Basic Light and Shadow: Values, Volume, and the Importance of Light
Overview
“Next, I will explain the importance of light and shadow and how to work with them. Then, I will guide you in deciding the lighting and value range for the project. ”
In this video lesson Fernanda Suarez addresses the topic: Basic Light and Shadow: Values, Volume, and the Importance of Light, 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
“Through light and shadow, we can give personality to a piece. On the next lesson, I will show you how to achieve this. Now we're going to take a quick look at values and lighting. for image. As you can see right here, I have a simple value scale. And values are how light or dark something is on a scale of white. Too black. So we have white on one end and pure black on the other. And in between are all the variations of grays. you can have two very different colors that have the same value The same way you can have different values on the same hue. Parentheses, here is a pure pigment without...”
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Course summary for: Digital Painting of Characters in 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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