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Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop

Finding Inspiration: Mood Board and References 1

A course by Fernanda Suarez , Digital Illustrator and Character Designer

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About the video: Finding Inspiration: Mood Board and References 1

Overview

“In this lesson, I will show you how to build a mood board, by gathering images that will help to find inspiration. These will form the visual references needed to complete the sketch, making them a very important part of the creative process. ”

In this video lesson Fernanda Suarez addresses the topic: Finding Inspiration: Mood Board and References 1, 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

“ Finding Inspiration: Mood Board and References It's time to work on the project's mood board. In this lesson, we'll think of a basic idea for a character. Then we'll look for images that can inspire and help us develop that idea further. Now we'll start thinking about our character. Here I'll write a couple of points from where I'm starting this idea, this concept. A lot of these are things that I love. I think we all have recurrent things that we fall back to. For me, a lot of these are things I feel passionate about, and I love exploring them when working in a character. I'll start with...”

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Course summary for: Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (138)
4784 students
5 units
20 lessons (4h 48m)
8 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting

Fernanda Suarez

A course by Fernanda Suarez

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Digital Illustrator and Character Designer

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.