Color Your Character

ASSIGNMENT

Your assignment for this class is simply to choose one (or all!) of the character portrait drawings you created for the first three sessions of this series and digitally color it. Or if you skipped the first three classes, create a character portrait from scratch!

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As usual, feel free to post some process pics as well!

MATERIALS

Adobe Photoshop
Scanner
Tablet
Your Drawing!
Huion Led Light Pad (optional)
Pilot Metropolitan Fountain Pen - Fine Nib (optional)
Zebra Disposable Brush Pen - Super Fine (optional)

RECOMMENDED PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES

Stumpy Pencil Brush
The Oatley Academy Brush Club from OatleyAcademy.com - the brushes I use in this class are from the Chris Oatley's Favorite Brushes set (you have to sign up (for free!) to the brush club in order to download them)
Kecky's Magical Brushes

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

World of Color: Using Color to Design a Character by Ira Marcks
Draw The Head From Any Angle - from Proko.com
Character Design References Pinterest Board - Galleries, art references, tutorials and interviews from established and young promising artists in animation, movies, games, comics and illustration.
Figure and Gesture Drawing: Tools for Self-Educating Artists - line-of-action.com
Handy Art Reference Tool
The Color Zones Of The Face

SKILLSHARE CLASSES

Drawing Faces: A Beginner's Guide by Ira Marcks (Sooooo helpful!)
Cartooning: Drawing Faces and Expressions by Ira Marcks
All of Nina Rycroft's classes on the face and head

MY ONLINE PRESENCE

Laura Perniciaro

Fueled by pizza and daydreams

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