Digital Drawing and Painting in Illustrator and Photoshop

By Eric Kunzendorf
Throughout these lessons, we'll introduce new strategies and techniques in character design and realization by unlocking different ways of drawing, inking, and applying color to character studies. Software required: Adobe CC 2014, Photoshop, Illustrator.
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Level
Advanced
Updated
Aug 5, 2015
Duration
5h 10m
Table of contents
Introduction and Project Overview
Introduction and Project Overview 1m
Digital Drawing and Painting in Illustrator and Photoshop
Discussing Scale of Marks and Resolution 6m Creating Thumbnail Sketches 9m Drawing Gesture Poses 11m Discussing Mass Gesture 8m Creating Volumes 11m Cleaning up Volume Drawings 7m Exploring Contour Drawing 12m Completing Contour Drawing 9m Utilizing Illustrator 10m Creating Brushes 11m Tracing Contour Drawing 10m Applying Brushes 12m Repairing and Restating Lines 7m Drawing the Interior Contours 12m Finishing Interior Contours 9m Adjusting Line Work 11m Expanding Appearance and Converting Lines 11m Editing the Contour Lines 11m Combining Lines 7m Creating Color Palettes 10m Completing Color Palettes 11m Creating Brushes in Photoshop 11m Painting Skin Tones 10m Applying Light and Dark Tones 11m Adding Separate Paint Layers 12m Painting the Hair and Face 10m Creating a Lycra Texture 10m Correcting Line Work and Finishing the Face 11m Arranging the Final Drawing 9m Creating a Logotype in Illustrator 10m Printing the Final Image 11m
Description
Course info
Level
Advanced
Updated
Aug 5, 2015
Duration
5h 10m
Description

Throughout these lessons, we'll introduce new strategies and techniques in character design and realization by unlocking different ways of drawing, inking, and applying color to character studies. This course emphasizes looseness in initial treatment as a way of keeping the drawing energetic and fluid while depicting modeled form in Illustrator and Photoshop. By the end of this course, you will have learned several new techniques to improve your ability as an animator. Software required: Adobe CC 2014, Photoshop, Illustrator.

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Eric Kunzendorf
About the author

Eric Kunzendorf has been teaching computer graphics and animation at the college level for the last two decades at such varied institutions as Jacksonville University, the New Hampshire Institute of Art, the Atlanta College of Art, and the School of Visual Arts’ Savannah campus. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in Art history from Columbia University and a Masters of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from the University of Georgia.

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