Designing Characters with Personality in Procreate
Lineart, basic colors and simple painting 2
A course by Natália Dias , Illustrator
About the video: Lineart, basic colors and simple painting 2
Overview
“Here, I'll apply a simpler paint job, which tends to make the illustration look more 2D.”
In this video lesson Natália Dias addresses the topic: Lineart, basic colors and simple painting 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing Characters with Personality in Procreate. Learn to design characters in Procreate by capturing the expressions and actions that encompass who they are, what they do, and where they're from.
Partial transcription of the video
“Lineart, basic colors and simple painting Now, I'll do a simple painting on top of this drawing. It's a well-used paint type when you want to give an illustration a 2D look. It also depends a lot on the type of styling you do. I'll start by painting the skin, so, I'm going to come here in the skin layer, I add one more, Clipping Mask and you're done. I'm going to do a few layers of shadow now, just to mark where those shadows are. This here, at least in the old days, was what they called "cel shading", and in this kind of painting, you don't just need to make very solid shadows. If you want...”
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Course summary for: Designing Characters with Personality in Procreate
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Category
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Software
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Figure Drawing, Traditional illustration

Natália Dias
A course by Natália Dias
Natália Dias is an illustrator from Rio de Janeiro, based in Paraná. Her passion for drawing began at a young age, and at just 15 years old, she began to share her first creations online. Without neglecting her creative side at any moment, she completed her undergraduate and master's degrees in history, with a major in fashion history.
Illustration has long been her hobby, but, more recently, she managed to break into the professional sphere, producing commissions for companies such as Telecine. She is currently working as a freelance illustrator and shares her work online with her more-than-300K Instagram followers.
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