Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• You'll begin by talking about how to get your sketch onto the computer.
• Learn about mood boards, how to make them, and how they may assist you in your painting process. After that, you'll start painting your character design.
• This is where you may improve some of the lighting effects on your painted character, experiment with overlaying textures, make color tweaks, and apply incredibly simple background and floor shadows to ground the character for a 3D impression.
• Around this time, you'll be able to push the depth of field effects to the next level, increasing the dimensionality.

Syllabus:
 

1. Introduction

   • Introduction

   • Influences

   • What We Will Do in the Course
      

2.  Painting Fundamentals and Exercises

   • Our Workspace and Brushes

   • Sphere Studies - Color, Light and Shadows

   • Sphere Studies - Modifications

   • Sphere Studies - Textures and Blur
      

3.  Character Digital Painting

   • Creating a Moodboard and Importing Our Character Sketch

   • Masking Our Character

   • Flatting Our Character

   • Defining Placement of Keylight

   • Values and Color - White Fur

   • Values and Color - the Gun

   • Values and Color - Refining the Fur

   • Refining Lights, Shadows and Textures - Gauntlets
      

4.  Finishing touches and effects

   • Finalizing the Image - Final Details, Glow and Blur

   • Finalizing the Image - Highlights and Shadows

   • Finalizing the Image - color editing and export
      

5. Final Project

   • Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light