Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop
Clothing and Accessories 2
A course by Fernanda Suarez , Digital Illustrator and Character Designer
About the video: Clothing and Accessories 2
Overview
“Next, you will see how I apply all the lessons I've taught you to enhance the details of my character's accessories. I will draw upon various techniques—related to value, light, shadow, and story development—to bring the locket closer to my concept. ”
In this video lesson Fernanda Suarez addresses the topic: Clothing and Accessories 2, 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
“Now I'm going to start working on the locket that the character has. And I already decided that it's going to be a silver metal. So the colors are going to be like this. Very cool tone and light. desaturated Of course, you need to match everything else in our image, the lighting, this area. where the locket is, is not receiving the most intense light. So it's not going to be as high in values as the things around the face, for example, or the face itself. Still, because it is a metal and that is more of a shiny, reflective surface. The highlights are going to be still intense and more contr...”
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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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