Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop
Finding Inspiration: Mood Board and References 1
A course by Fernanda Suarez , Digital Illustrator and Character Designer
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
“It's time to work on the project's mood board. In this lesson, we will think of a basic idea for a character. And then we will look for images that can inspire us and help us develop that idea further. Now we're gonna start thinking about our characters. And here I'm gonna write a couple of points from where I'm starting this idea, this concept. And A lot of these are things that I really love I think we all have recurrent themes that we fall back too. And for me, a lot of these are like Things that I feel really passionate about and I love exploring them when working in a character. I'm go...”
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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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