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Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

What We Will Do in the Course

A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer

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About the video: What We Will Do in the Course

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll go over the basic and essential things that the overall course will be about. I’ll briefly talk about how I will equip you and get you ready to paint your awesome character and bring them to life by trusting the creative process. ”

In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: What We Will Do in the Course, 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

“So let's talk about what you're going to learn in this course. We're going to talk about taking your sketch and then bringing it to life with color and light and through the digital painting technique that I'm going to teach you. There's a lot of ways to add color to a character. but I'm going to show you my technique and the way that I do it. One of the things that I want to show you is that With this technique, you're going to learn how to add color and light. And it doesn't really matter if you're doing it for children's books or if you're doing it for animation or gaming. You're gonna l...”

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

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (1401)
31044 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.