Design and Illustration of Incredible Characters
Shadows and glitters
A course by Christian Michel , Graphic designer and illustrator
About the video: Shadows and glitters
Overview
“Now with your image in pixels, you will start by preparing your character blocking layers and applying the color base defining shadows and brightness.”
In this video lesson Christian Michel addresses the topic: Shadows and glitters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design and Illustration of Incredible Characters. Learn to draw fantastic characters like a professional.
Partial transcription of the video
“At this stage of the process we will apply shadows and glare so rof, very roughly, and then take them back and give them higher quality, getting more volume in the character. I'm going to show you how I do it. Well, we're in Photoshop, ready to bring us to Doom. We are going to give File, Open. And we had it on the desk, and surely Photoshop will not respect us Document size We are going to create it, it was 50 by 50. We are going to put the measure and grow our Canvas, and our next thing we are going to do, is that it is very complicated to be working With a transparent background, then we...”
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Course summary for: Design and Illustration of Incredible Characters
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration
Christian Michel
A course by Christian Michel
Christian Michel has always been surrounded by art and as a child he was clear about his vocation as an illustrator. He studied graphic design at the Universidad Anáhuac del Sur (Mexico), where he also had the opportunity to offer a chair. He founded the Visual Infection studio, based in Mexico City and San Antonio, specializing in packaging design, illustration and advertising, where he works for companies around the world.
He has exhibited part of his work collectively in Mexico City, Toulouse, Barcelona, Finland, Berlin and New York. Recently he has dedicated himself to share his work and experience as a lecturer in Mexico and abroad. Part of his work can be seen in specialized publications, in all kinds of products and in well-known advertising campaigns.
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