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Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Influences

A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer

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30,938 students

Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: Influences

Overview

“In this video, I’ll share with you some of my favorite artistic heroes. I’ll talk a bit about how each one of them has influenced my work as well as other ways I find inspiration. ”

In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Influences , 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

“Influences In this lesson, I'm going to talk about some of my influences, and inspiration is so key as an artist. As you continue to evolve in your career, you find different inspirations, so I'm going to share with you some of the people that have inspired me along the way. As a kid, I drew just like any other little kid, I always liked to draw. But it wasn't until I saw my older brother drawing Marvel superheroes and things like that, that I got really excited, and I was, "Man, I want to do that," and I would ask him to teach me. And so he did, and from there I just took off and started d...”

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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.