Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light
Values and Color - Refining the Fur
A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer
Joined September 2019
Joined September 2019
About the video: Values and Color - Refining the Fur
Overview
“ In this lesson, we’re going to start painting texture by using simple brush techniques and pushing our light and dark areas.”
In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Values and Color - Refining the Fur, 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 going to start painting in some texture. And the way we're going to do that is that we're going to start using some simple brush techniques. So we're going to take a look at a couple of different brushes and seeing the different textures that we get from those. So let's dive in and start adding texture to our character. If you look at my layers panel, I have them black fur, white fur, and then eyes. I have them all on separate layers. as I get further down along in the image, I start to compress and flatten things. But for now, let's refine this because I noticed that ...”
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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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