Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light
Values and Color - The Gun
A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer
Joined September 2019
Joined September 2019
About the video: Values and Color - The Gun
Overview
“In this lesson we’re going to start bringing in some value and form to the gun. We’ll continue to learn how to make intelligent guesses on where our light should land.”
In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Values and Color - The Gun, 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
“In this lesson, we're gonna start adding some value and color to the gun. So remember, we're going to continue to make some intelligent guesses. on where that light should land. Whether that's using a little toy as a prop, as a reference to do that, but also remembering back to the sphere studies, All of that helps you create a mental archive in your mind. On where that light and shadow should land. So keep those in mind. Let's go ahead and move forward. Like everything else, I kind of created a new layer and I clipped it up here this way. Option and click. There's different parts to this g...”
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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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