Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop
Final Adjustments 1
A course by Fernanda Suarez , Digital Illustrator and Character Designer
About the video: Final Adjustments 1
Overview
“We're nearly there! It's time to take the image to the next level by making the final adjustments. First, I will demonstrate how to organize your workspace by merging layers. Once this is done, I will add new adjustment layers ready to enhance the painting. ”
In this video lesson Fernanda Suarez addresses the topic: Final Adjustments 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
“ Final Adjustments Having everything in our painting completed, it's time to add final adjustments. It's time for me to start adding my final adjustments. The first thing I'll do is go to my Character folder and select all the different layers for the character, making sure I grab all of them. I'm doing these by pressing Ctrl every time I click on one of them. Then I'll drag all of them to this little + icon here and now I have a copy of all of them. Once I have that, I'll press Ctrl + E and merge those copied layers. Now I have a new layer on top that is the entire character, but all the ...”
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Course summary for: Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
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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