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Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Finalizing the Image - Final Details, Glow and Blur

A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer

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About the video: Finalizing the Image - Final Details, Glow and Blur

Overview

“Focusing on details, for example, glow and blur make the difference. Let's work on those details together.”

In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Finalizing the Image - Final Details, Glow and Blur, 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

“So in this lesson, we're going to continue to finalize the image using glow and blur. To really make your character feel like it's in an environment. We really want to bring this to life. And so all of these little finishing touches are going to really bring it home for us. And so the way we're gonna do that is by really creating these simple techniques that will bring this character to life. And we're going to do that. Now in this lesson. In this video, we're going to paint the final main element of this scene, which are these bubbles. I guess you could say they're like, magic or different...”

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Course summary for: Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (1401)
31044 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.