Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop
The Character 1
A course by Fernanda Suarez , Digital Illustrator and Character Designer
About the video: The Character 1
Overview
“In this lesson, the focus will be placed on painting the character, starting with the face. I will develop the expression, adding special details that will provide depth and realism. ”
In this video lesson Fernanda Suarez addresses the topic: The Character 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
“we will start painting the face of our character. its details, features, and main characteristics. Then we will continue with the rest of the body. In this next lesson, I will show you how to do it. Now it's going to be time to actually start defining everything better. I'm going to start with the face because that is the focal point of my image. And the first thing that I always like to add are the eyebrows. I'm gonna add them on a new layer on top or skin layer just in case and I'm gonna grab my brush and I'm gonna move this in shape dynamics all the way to 0%. And here it could be somewh...”
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Course summary for: Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop
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Software
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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