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Character Digital Painting: Creating Magical Scenes

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Learn to create unique digital paintings from scratch filled with light, color, and a touch of magic in Photoshop
  • Introduction
  • Tools and Techniques for Creating an Illustration
  • Creating Illustrations from Scratch
  • Final Touches and Words
  • Final project
By mixing two worlds—reality and fantasy—you can create colorful scenes with a magical touch. Illustrator and visual artist Georgi Georgiev designs characters and environments inspired by beautiful paintings, people’s stories, and their emotional responses. He has worked in both the gaming and movie industries and used his signature style to design book covers.

In this course, he teaches you how to create digital illustrations full of color and light in Photoshop. Learn how to bring an authentic character to life from start to finish using his stylized, comic approach. Dare to use your imagination and create magical illustrations.

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • Tools and Options in Photoshop
  • Working with References and Creating without Lineart
  • Applying Color Palettes in Photoshop
  • Thinking about the Painting: Ideation and Keywords
  • Setting Up: Basic Composition and Color Ideas 1
  • Setting Up: Basic Composition and Color Ideas 2
  • Picking the Best Idea
  • Monochrome Underpainting and Starting to Define the Light 1
  • Monochrome Underpainting and Starting to Define the Light 2
  • Monochrome Underpainting and Starting to Define the Light 3
  • Monochrome Underpainting and Starting to Define the Light 4
  • Monochrome Underpainting and Starting to Define the Light 5
  • Colorizing the Painting
  • Refining Shapes, Enriching the Colors and Last Details 1
  • Refining Shapes, Enriching the Colors and Last Details 2
  • Refining Shapes, Enriching the Colors and Last Details 3
  • Refining Shapes, Enriching the Colors and Last Details 4
  • Finishing the Painting: Focus and Color Adjustments
  • How to Export Your Image
  • Tips on the Industry
  • Light and Color for character illustrations

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Georgi Georgiev

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