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Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Values and Color - White Fur

A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer

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Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: Values and Color - White Fur

Overview

“In this lesson, we’re going to start painting in our values and we’ll start with the white fur section of the face and body. Values are the lightness or darkness of a color and this is what starts to add form, dimension, and contrast.”

In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Values and Color - White 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

“Values and color - White Fur In this lesson, we are going to start with the most important parts of the process: painting in our values. We are going to start with the white fur, which is the face and part of the body as well. Values is the lightness and darkness of a color, so that is what really starts to add contrast, dimension and form, starts to really make it feel dimensional. So let's get started. I wanted to start with the head, but I think I'm going to do the face and then move on to these white areas. I'm going to select my white fur, create a new layer, and again, using the Optio...”

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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.