Digital Painting Master Class : Beginner to Advanced
What you'll learn
- Gain a firm understanding of the diverse tools and powerful features available in Photoshop and Illustrator
- Have a better understanding on how to use textures and shading for more realistic details
- You will learn many techniques in Photoshop that will make your editing faster and more realistic like the puppet warp tool
- Learn best practices to better develop and digitally paint character ideas quickly
- Mastery of the Photoshop interface
- Fundamentals of lighting, textures, and shapes
- Frame by frame animation techniques
- Character and creature deisgn
- Full understanding of drawing with perspective
- Advance environment illustration and so much more!!!
Requirements
- Basic computer knowledge
Description
Digital painting and drawing has never been this fun. Illustrate characters, creatures, landscapes and more!
Experts and beginners can benefit from hours of detailed well explained training guiding you step by step through the fundamentals of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, through to advanced digital painting techniques used by professionals in major films and videos games.
You will start this course by becoming familiar with the interfaces, while you confidently master the most commonly used Illustrator and Photoshop tools.
Once you have mastered the fundamentals, you will quickly move on to fun mini projects designed to show you real world uses for Photoshop. You will build confidence throughout this series as you begin to understand professional techniques used for lighting, animation, and Illustration.
After you have mastered the basics of Photoshop you will dive right in to more advanced techniques as you learn fundamentals of digital painting using these power design tools.
By the end of this course you should feel confident to take on any project or creative career armed with the incredible skills you learn with us here at the School of Game Design
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to master Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
- Beginners to advanced users
Course content
- Preview01:34
- 02:53How to download and install Photoshop
- 04:16How to create different documents
- 04:59Navigating around a document
- 06:01Working with different brushes
- 06:37Brush options
- 08:56Paint bucket
- 08:00Creating different gradients
- 02:27Using the eye dropper tool
- 04:38Working with blur
- 03:20How to use dodge and burn
- 03:33Clone tool
- 05:08Understanding layers
- 05:58Adding text to a document
- 04:47Different layer effects
- 05:01Working with shapes
- 03:19Combining different images together
- 02:42Filters
- 05:50Image Vs. Canvas
Instructor
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GREAT EDUCATION SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE
The School of Game Design was created to provide in-depth, current industry education in the area of interactive arts. We have our finger on the pulse of the tech industry and keep our curriculum up to date so our students are some of the most sought after artists and designers available. We arm students with the tools needed to thrive as designers, programmers, 3D animators, game developers, web designers, and UI / UX artists.
WE TEACH ONLY THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY
Unity, Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, GameSalad, and several other powerful programming languages are just some of the many topics we cover here at the School of Game Design. We pay close attention to the latest tools and techniques being utilized by the tech and gaming industries, making sure that what we teach, keeps our students on top of these fast growing technologies. We are always developing new training videos which help make our students leaders in their chosen fields.
WE PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH
All of our instructors here at the School of Game Design are experts at what they do and are currently working in the game, film, and tech industries with over 24 years of experience. Not only have we taught at major schools and studios like Ubisoft and the LA Film School, but our instructors have worked on Films like Lord of the Rings, and Rango. Our dedicated team has won major awards for their films, and innovative web designs and combined have launched over 30 apps to the iTunes App Store and Android Market.
We are pros at what we do and we have a passion for sharing our industry knowledge with our students.