Guided Course: Bring Your Sketch to Life with Lighting and Color in Photoshop
Flatting Our Character
A guided course by Joel Santana
Joined April 2002
About the video: Flatting Our Character
Overview
“In this lesson let’s talk about something called flatting. We’ll start to choose our local colors and I’ll explain what those are as well as our decisions for our color choices.”
In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Flatting Our Character, which is part of the Domestika online course: Guided Course: Bring Your Sketch to Life with Lighting and Color in Photoshop. Add depth, lighting, and color to transform your sketch into a vibrant, lifelike character in Photoshop..
Partial transcription of the video
“So in this lesson, we're going to talk a little bit about something called flatting. and that's where we choose our local colors. And I'll explain a little bit more about that as we dive in. We're gonna talk about the importance of how we choose those colors and why we do that. And let's go ahead and get started. By the end of this phase, this is what your image should look like. you should have solid fields of color separating each element. And again, no shading or anything. They're just solid fills. each element will be kind of separated that way. Depending on how you want to paint things...”
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Course summary for: Guided Course: Bring Your Sketch to Life with Lighting and Color in Photoshop
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Design, Digital Painting, Sketching

Joel Santana
A guided course by Domestika
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