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Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Sphere Studies - Textures and Blur

A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer

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Audio: English, Spanish

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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

“Sphere Studies - Texture & Blur In this lesson, we are going to take those modified spheres and add texture, and give it some blur too to give it some depth of field. So we'll get started and let's jump into adding texture. So I'm going to do a fuzzy and a rock. Two different ones. I'm going to start with the fuzzy, so I'm going to add a new layer here. Then I'll get rid of this specular highlight. Then I'm going to soften some of these edges. Just soften this little parts and also get rid of some of the reflective... I wanted to dull down that cool ambient light. And just soften everyt...”

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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.