Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light
Defining Placement of Keylight
A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer
Joined September 2019
Joined September 2019
About the video: Defining Placement of Keylight
Overview
“This lesson will cover lighting. There are many ways to introduce lighting to your character but in this course, we will make that call early on in the process. ”
In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Defining Placement of Keylight, 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
“Defining placement of keylight In this lesson, we'll talk about how to position our key light. There's a lot of ways to determine the lighting on your character. You can do it early on or later on in the process, but for this lesson we'll talk about starting from the beginning. So let's jump into lighting. I like this warm background versus the dark blue. I think this kind of helps feel more like a vintage kind of '60s vibe that I wanted to go for. The white on the panda, it feels a little cool, which seems fine on a darker background, but now on this, it just feels a little off. So I'm goi...”
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Course summary for: Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light
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Category
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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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