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Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop

The Background

A course by Fernanda Suarez , Digital Illustrator and Character Designer

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98% positive reviews (138)

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Audio: English

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About the video: The Background

Overview

“In this lesson, I will progress to the background. You will learn how to make it complement the image and add to the character's story. ”

In this video lesson Fernanda Suarez addresses the topic: The Background, 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

“ Background In this lesson, we'll complete the background of the piece. I'll show you my way to do it and how to achieve it. At this point, the character is pretty much done. We can go back if we need to and adjust something here and there or add something that needs to be added, but overall, we're done with that part. Now, it's time to start working on the background. I'll close the folder for the character and we can create a new folder for all the background elements. As we have previously decided, I'll have this more graphic element that is inspired by the silhouettes of the forest and...”

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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.