Lynda - Photoshop: Create a Satyr Using Layer Styles

Size: 836 MB | Duration: 1h 21m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15&30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

Photoshop is a great tool for creature creators. You can use it to create composites, or use its digital painting toolset, as shown here, to create fine art and concept drawings. In this course, artist Rayce Bird takes a hand-drawn sketch and brings it to life in Photoshop, showing how to use one particular feature, layer styles, to make interesting and realistic textures for a well-known fantasy creature: a satyr.

Topics include:

* Importing a sketch into Photoshop

* Adding gray shades and smudging

* Introducing color, shadows, and highlights

* Adding texture with layer styles

* Using blur to concentrate the viewer's eye

* Color correcting the final image