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Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Introduction

A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer

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99% positive reviews (1.4K)

30,938 students

Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: Introduction

Overview

“In this video, I’ll share a bit about my experience as a professional illustrator. I’ll also talk about my portfolio and what I do to keep it up to date as well as how I use passion projects to stay excited about art and learning.”

In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Introduction, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light. Learn how to breathe life into a character sketch through color and light with Adobe Photoshop.

Partial transcription of the video

“Introduction Hello, my name is Joel Santana and I am so excited to have you on this course. I will talk about digital painting and color and light, but in this lesson I want to talk to you about my experience, and just who I am as a person. I'm a character designer and concept artist and I've been working in this field for about 14 years now. I've done work for package design, I've done stuff for animation, I've done a lot of stuff for advertising and even in the toy company. It's been and honor to work on clients such as Disney, Champ's Sports, children's book industry... It's quite an arr...”

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Course summary for: Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (1394)
30938 students
4 units
18 lessons (2h 49m)
6 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Joel Santana

A course by Joel Santana

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Concept Artist and Character Designer

Joel Santana is a character designer and illustrator, a collector of hats, and a married father with two kids. Throughout his career, he's done freelance work for Champs Sports, Walt Disney World Orlando, and other major clients. Joel's been published in the Communication Arts Illustration Annual 2016 and a full page in 2017, MTVnews.com and Huffington Post UK. He's also worked for in-house teams and advertising agencies creating illustrations for advertising, as well as packaging and toys.

Aside from creating, Joel has also mentored junior artists and co-workers, taught workshops, given talks to art students at local universities, reviewed products for Wacom, and participated in the local AIGA group speaking to young creatives.