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Digital Painting: From Sketch to Finished Product

A step by step guide to create amazing digital paintings using adobe photoshop.
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Length Under 3 weeks
Effort 3 hours per week
Price $ 15
Subject Design, Art
Level Any
Languages English
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Digital Painting from Blank Canvas to Completed Product

If you are a student with plans to enter the field of conceptual art and illustration or already work in the business but want to learn an exciting way to build a strong client base and improve workflow, this course is perfect. However, the course is also beneficial for virtually anyone interested in painting something unique and cool on the computer.

How to Transform the Ordinary into Something Extraordinary with Digital Painting

  • Master key elements of art and illustration
  • Understand how to stand apart from the competition
  • Benefit from basic and sidebar methodologies
  • Optimize existing or gain new knowledge

    • Content and Overview

    By applying everything learned in this course, you have incredible opportunities to work within multiple industries, including entertainment, law enforcement, and medical. Digital painting is widely used in the creation of characters seen in blockbuster films, promotional materials for video games, costume and mask design, and detailed illustrations used by medical professionals, and this course paves the way.

    Other courses tend to skip critical steps or gloss over information, but with this digital painting course, everything you need to get started is provided. This course will take you through the process of creating an amazing digital character illustration step-by-step using Adobe Photoshop.

  • Developing New Ideas – You will learn effective methods of developing ideas specific to character illustration.
  • Sketching – Hardy Fowler will cover all the basics of sketching, including the right way to get started
  • Blocking in Color – You will learn appropriate ways to apply color and define tones.
  • Painting and Polishing – As the final step of the course, your project will be given final touches and the painting completed.

    • When finished, you will have created a digital painting of a character face and will possess basic skills for creating pieces to share or even use in an upcoming project.

    After completing this course using Adobe Photoshop, you will have the ability to create polished illustrations from scratch. Included in the course are rough sketching, inking, basic mark-making and rendering, using quick mask mode to block in, blocking and painting, skin tones, and polish and presentation.

    Who this course is for:
    • This digital art class is perfect for beginners seeking to break into the digital art field.
    • Novices and even professionals will also benefit a great deal from this class. Refine your methods and increase the marketability of your work. Level up!

    What you'll learn

    • Create amazing digital paintings with Adobe Photoshop!

    • Break into an exciting and growing digital art marketplace.

    • Focus their creativity into an easy-to-grasp process that leads to excellent results.

    Course syllabus

    Introduction & Basic Mark Making Sketching Inking Blocking In & Form Modelling Skin Tones Polish & Final Presentation Recap Advanced Tutorial - Complete Character Rendering

    Meet the instructors

    Hardy Fowler

    Professional Illustrator & Concept Artist

    Hardy is a professional concept artist and illustrator working in New Orleans, LA. He has designed and painted hundreds of characters, creatures, machines and scenes for numerous entertainment industry clients. He has had artwork featured in elite digital art annuals such as Exposé. Hardy is also a certified medical illustrator and has a detailed knowledge of human anatomy as it applies to visual art.

    Hardy has devoted his online teaching career to the goal of making digital art and all of it's amazing potential accessible to everyone - even those for whom art school is not feasible.