Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop
Color Palette and Base Colors 1
A course by Fernanda Suarez, Digital Illustrator and Character Designer
About the video: Color Palette and Base Colors 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to apply color. Before I add the base colors—which will help to set a good foundation for the painting—I like to create a color palette. This step helps to secure the cohesiveness of the image. To do this, I will guide you in pulling together a number of reference images and drawing out the overall color scheme. Your references should be in line with the overall ambiance you want to create, as color is a key tool in molding the mood of your image. ”
In this video lesson Fernanda Suarez addresses the topic: Color Palette and Base Colors 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop. Learn digital painting techniques to create detailed character portraits by exploring brushes, colors, values, and designs.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we will work on base colors and the application of a color palette. All right, now that we have our sketch completed, right here. It's gonna be time for me to start working on my color palette. And for that, I just opened a simple file on Photoshop. a different file than my sketch and painting one. and I have a white background, and then I'm gonna create a new layer on top And I'm going to be adding my colors there. Usually I like to have it right there on the side of my image. And the reason I like to create a color palette in the first place is that it really just makes Thi...”
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Course summary for: Digital Painting of Characters in Photoshop
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Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting
Fernanda Suarez
A course by Fernanda Suarez
Fernanda Suarez is an Illustrator and character designer from Santiago, Chile. After studying visual arts at the University of Chile, she discovered her passion for digital art. After graduating, she started working freelance, with her very first client being Paizo Pathfinder. She has since built a large following online, with over 257K followers on Instagram.
She currently works as a freelance illustrator, and has worked on various projects for a wide range of clients, from board games with Plaid Hat Games, like Dead of Winter or Ashes, to book covers and commissions with Bloomsbury Publishing and Simon & Schuster Inc. Her biggest passion is painting characters that tell a story, and she loves portraying fantasy, dark, emotional themes in her work.
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