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Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop

The Character 1

A course by Fernanda Suarez , Digital Illustrator and Character Designer

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98% positive reviews (138)

4,784 students

Audio: English

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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

“ The Character We'll start painting the face of our character, its details, features, and main characteristics. Then, we'll continue with the rest of the body. In this next lesson, I'll show you how to do it. Now, it's time to start defining everything better. I'll start with the face as that is the focal point of my image. The first thing I always like to add are the eyebrows. I'll add them on a new layer on top of our Skin layer just in case. I'll grab my brush and I'll move this in Shape Dynamics to 0%. Here, it could be somewhere around the middle, whatever works best for you. I'll cho...”

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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.