Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light
Masking Our Character
A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer
Joined September 2019
Joined September 2019
About the video: Masking Our Character
Overview
“In this lesson let’s talk about masking the character sketch. We’ll discuss the importance of this phase and go over a couple ways to go about doing it. ”
In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Masking Our Character, 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
“Masking our character OK so, in this lesson, let's start masking our character. We are going to talk about the importance of this phase. It's a very crucial part of the process, so we are going to jump into that. I'm going to show you two or three different ways to do that. So with that set, let's start masking. Let's go ahead and start masking this character. To do that, we are going to use this Lasso tool, and we are going to make a selection around the entire silhouette. You want to make sure this feather is set to one pixel. You don't want this to be too sharp of an edge, nor too soft a...”
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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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