Designing a Creature for 3D in Photoshop
In this series of lessons, we will focus on designing a creature which will later be modeled in 3D. Software required: Photoshop CS4.
What you'll learn
In this series of lessons we will focus on designing a creature which will later be modeled in 3D. We'll begin by learning about a few important things to keep in mind when beginning to design a character. We'll also take a look at some rough sketches that were done exploring some different ideas for our creature. Next, we'll begin drawing some rough line work, and explore the basic forms and details for this character. After building some nice detail into the initial line work, we'll refine the creature by tracing over our rough lines on a new layer. Next, we'll dive right into painting our creature, beginning with basic flat colors and then moving on to shadows and highlights. Finally, we'll flush out some nice details for our creature that will give it that added bit of visual appeal. Software required: Photoshop CS4.
Table of contents
- Getting Started with Our Creature Design 9m
- Rough Line Work: Basic Proportions 10m
- Rough Line Work: Head and Shoulders 11m
- Rough Line Work: Chest and Upper Arms 11m
- Rough Line Work: Abdomen and Thighs 10m
- Rough Line Work: Lower Legs and Feet 10m
- Rough Line Work: Face and Neck 11m
- Rough Line Work: Forearms and Hands 10m
- Rough Line Work: Staff 11m
- Detailing Rough Line Work: Face 10m
- Detailing Rough Line Work: Neck and Torso 10m
- Detailing Rough Line Work: Arms and Hands 11m
- Detailing Rough Line Work: Belt and Legs 10m
- Refined Line Work: Head and Neck 11m
- Refined Line Work: Chest and Shoulders 11m
- Refined Line Work: Abdomen and Thighs 10m
- Refined Line Work: Arms and Legs 11m
- Refined Line Work: Staff 9m
- Color: Establishing Our Color Palette 12m
- Color: Mid-tones 12m
- Color: Shadows 10m
- Color: Soft Highlights 10m
- Color: Detailing Our Character's Face 10m
- Color: Detailing Our Character's Belt 11m
- Color: Staff 12m
- Color: Detailing Our Character's Neck and Torso 11m
- Color: Adding Skin Texture and Eye Details 10m
- Color: Finishing Touches 9m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more