Digital Tutors - Quick and Effective Character Illustration in Photoshop

Duration 2h 17m

Difficulty Level Advanced

Project Files Included

Software used

Photoshop CS4

What you will learn

In this tutorial we will learn about the steps involved in creating a character illustration from start to finish.

In these lessons we will follow a process of creating character illustrations. We will start with quick sketches to work out the pose and gesture. Then we will use that sketch as a guide to do a cleaned up drawing. Finally we will block in colors and render out to an appropriate finish.

Along the way we will emphasize the importance of the procedure and how integral staying focused on the current step of the process is to producing effective images. This process is simple and straightforward and after viewing this course you will have plenty of tips and techniques to incorporate into your own process of quick and effective character illustration.

Guest Tutor

Alex Kosakowski

1. Introduction and project overview 01:11

2. Reviewing reference and starting to sketch 12:27

3. Cleaning up the drawing 11:09

4. Locking down the final lines 10:03

5. Finishing the line drawing 08:03

6. Quick talk about the color palette 06:07

7. Beginning to block in color 09:53

8. Finishing the base color 08:30

9. Beginning to add value 09:36

10. Continuing to add value 11:33

11. Finishing touches on the background 10:31

12. Beginning the final render pass on character 11:25

13. Applying more final touches 10:12

14. Completing the last detail pass 10:13

15. Level adjustments and finishing the project 06:57