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Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Our Workspace and Brushes

A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer

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30,937 students

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About the video: Our Workspace and Brushes

Overview

“In this lesson, let's go over some tips for setting up our workspace and tools so that we can have everything ready for digital painting. Let's get started.”

In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Our Workspace and Brushes, 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

“Our Workspace & Brushes In this lesson, we'll take a look at our work space and tools to make sure everything is organized for our digital painting process. Let's get started. A lot of times people ask, "What size should I work in," so let's look at Image, and go down to Image Size. When you go in here, the thing I want you to pay attention to the most is here, Resolution. I want to make sure that you have your resolution set to 300. As far as the size of the canvas, mine is 11 by 17 because of what I'm going to be showing and working on, but if you feel that for your character an 8.5 b...”

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

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (1394)
30937 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.