Session 33

Session 33, Digital Painting: Stuff I Wish I Knew 10 Years Ago Part III: "Masks and Adjustment Layers Make You Faster" is a three video session in which I'll explore characters, environments, and world design. The theme revolves around using adjustment layers to paint quicker and more efficiently in digital painting. I'll discuss guidelines for coherency as well as art direction techniques to elicit emotional responses to your work based on design decisions.

*Third of an Eight Part Series

Here is everything you get!!

-THREE Structured HD Video Tutorials with commentary, annotations, and detailed process demonstration:

1) Masks and Adjustment Layers Make You Faster: (43 min.)

2) Movie Night (19 min.)

3) Man and Dog (44 min)

-Explanations and demonstrations on stylization process, color application, and step by step instruction on all things design.

4) Process Video Timelapse (3 MOVs)

5) Full Res Images (3 JPGs)

5) Raw PSD Files, including all layers!!! (3 PSD Files)

7) BrushPack 3.0: Some of my favorites plus some bonus brushes

8) Texture Brush Set: Some of my favorite Materials brushes

9) Recommended Book List PDF

10) Assignments for Practice

You'll learn:

-to create your own masks and adjustment layers efficiently 

-to paint faster

-to economize your layers

-to paint textured materials using layer style

-to stylize designs in color and light

-to create effects using adjustment layers

-to identify which adjustment layers are best to use and when 

-to break down good and bad design

-to proportion a character in appealing ways

-to exaggerate or push a design

-to balance design using the rules, principles and elements of design

-to use color as a design

-to gain inspiration through art history

-to research reference images effectively

-to embrace lighting as a design element

-to emphasize volume with fill and rim light

-to paint light direction into form

-to build shapes conducive to appeal

-to reveal form using shadow shapes

-to create a story moment

-to paint characters within a scene

-to light a scene using literal warm and cool lights

-to paint with active and passive color

-to build up a focal point

-to light a scene using an off screen light source

-to create rhythm/balance within your work

-to build a composition from line, shapes, patterns and temperatures

-to conceptualize ideas for an executive or director

-to compose a final "moment" with color and light

-to render complex shapes

-to retain vivid colors from rough to finish

-to add final touches using modes and PS adjustment layers

-to provide the best option for presentation

-to commit to an idea and carry it through

-to facilitate coherent technique throughout a piece