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Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Creating a Moodboard and Importing Our Character Sketch

A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer

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About the video: Creating a Moodboard and Importing Our Character Sketch

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll go over how I typically scan or import my character sketch. I’ll also explain what a moodboard is and the benefits of having one in your creative process.”

In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Creating a Moodboard and Importing Our Character Sketch, 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, i want to talk to you about how to take your sketch and then import it into the computer. There's a couple ways that I do this, a couple simple ways that I go about doing that, and so I just wanna share those tips with you. So let's go ahead and get started. we're going to import our sketch. And I usually do this one of two ways. And Actually, let's say three ways. The easiest way. Is gonna be, when you have digital lines. What digital lines means is that you've sketched this whole thing out in the computer. And the nice thing about that is that when you do that, you can ...”

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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.