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Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Flatting Our Character

A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer

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30,938 students

Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: Flatting Our Character

Overview

“In this lesson let’s talk about something called flatting. We’ll start to choose our local colors and I’ll explain what those are as well as our decisions for our color choices.”

In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Flatting 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

“Flatting our character In this lesson, we'll talk about something called flatting, and that's where we choose our local colors. I'll explain a bit more about that as we dive in. We'll talk about the importance of how we choose those colors and why we do that. Let's go ahead and get started. By the end of this phase, this is what your image looks like. You should have solid fills of colors separating each element. And again, no shading or anything, they're just solid fills. Each element will be kind of separated that way, depending on how you want to paint things. But the mask is all one thi...”

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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.