Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light
Sphere Studies - Textures and Blur
A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer
Joined September 2019
About the video: Sphere Studies - Textures and Blur
Overview
“In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to take the spheres we painted in the previous lesson and apply textures and subtle blur effects to add even more dimension. ”
In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Sphere Studies - Textures and Blur, 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 take those modified spheres Now we're going to add texture. And we're going to do a little bit of a blur as well just to give it some more depth of feel. So we'll get started and let's go ahead and jump in on adding texture. So I'm gonna do fuzzy and rock. Two different ones. I'm going to start with the fuzzy sphere. So I'm going to add a new layer here. And then going to get rid of this specular highlight. Then I'm gonna soften some of these edges here. Just going to kind of soften some of these little parts and also get rid of some of the reflective. I wa...”
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Course summary for: Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Joel Santana
A course by Joel Santana
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.
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