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Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Refining Lights, Shadows and Textures - Gauntlets

A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer

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About the video: Refining Lights, Shadows and Textures - Gauntlets

Overview

“In this video, we’re going to use a photographic texture for the gauntlets and add some rust effects here as well.”

In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Refining Lights, Shadows and Textures - Gauntlets, 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

“Refining lights, shadows and textures: The Gauntlets So in this lesson, we are going to do a second pass on the gauntlet, and I want to show you how to use a photographic texture to add even more realism and depth to that. So let's get started. Let me turn on these lines again, because I want to see the definition of what this is going to look like. This could use a little bit of a touch-up. I'm just going to clean that up a bit. It doesn't have to be 100% perfect. But you know what, I take that back. I just wanted to tighten up those areas. I'm using this rough brush here, but this is meta...”

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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.