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Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Finalizing the Image - Highlights and Shadows

A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer

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Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: Finalizing the Image - Highlights and Shadows

Overview

“As we get close to finishing our image this is the point we’re we push our highlights and shadows to really make the image come alive. ”

In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Finalizing the Image - Highlights and Shadows, 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

“Finalizing the image Highlights and shadows In this lesson, we are going to continue finalizing the image, and really punch up our highlights and shadows. What we'll do is, this is really going to add more life to your character and really bring it to life. So let's jump into this lesson, and see how we can go ahead and execute that. This is the final pass of light, so I'm really pushing the highlights from my key light at the top left. Just adding highlights everywhere. So with this, I'm brushing in the levels and color balance adjustment, and touching up all those areas I've already plann...”

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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.