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Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Sphere Studies - Color, Light and Shadows

A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer

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About the video: Sphere Studies - Color, Light and Shadows

Overview

“ In this lesson, we’re going to start our sphere studies. We’ll talk about how helpful this exercise is and we will begin with color, light, and shadows.”

In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Sphere Studies - Color, Light and Shadows, 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 in this lesson, we're going to get started on sphere studies. It's a very important exercise because with this simple geometry, It helps us really understand how color, light and shadow works. So let's get started. We're going to take a flat geometric shape. And we're going to add form and light to get us warmed up for the actual character painting. So we're going to add form and light to make it look dimensional. I'm going to use this lowish hard round brush, so the one with the soft edge. I'm going to leave it at flow at 28. I'm going to have these two things turned on and then we're g...”

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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.