Digital Painting: From Sketch to Finished Product

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.

Instructors

Hardy Fowler – Professional Illustrator & Concept Artist