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Hello everyone

In today’s lecture, I will add supplementary designs

to the character sketch from the previous lecture

, and explain a few design factors

that makes the sketch more complete

So, let me continue with the sketch

I want to add some details to the face,

and also for this hat section

Let’s add a different design factor to the satgat area

If you see here,

the silhouette helps you

recognize that this is a hunter,

but there is a problem

The problem is that

if this is a dinosaur hunter,

there has to be some visual hints

associated with this

So, let’s try

adding this in

In making face details,

there are various methods

You could make the brush smaller,

so for me at first I would use a large brush

to get a rough shape and form,

then move on to the details

In this, you could make the brush smaller,

but one of the ways I use it often

is to copy this,

create a new canvas,

then place on top

And then,

I would go to image size

and change this into

6 time bigger like 6 inches

I am using inches right now,

but if you are using cm

and see that it is only 5cm,

then dramatically increase it to like 15cm,

with the resolution kept at 300

So I like to

take the face separately

and enlarging it

to then add

details on top of it

I will add details now,

after first testing the brush

The image became too big

so let me make this smaller

to around

this much

Let me draw

while looking at the reference again

For the face of the character,

take a full reference of a similar character and draw

After that, you can reshape depending on the concept,

clothing, or

characteristics

specific to this character

You just have to give a feeling,

so the drawing does not

have to be precise

Just make small touches

to the shape

of the eyes,

and the nose bridge looks slightly different,

so let me change this as well

Even for this part,

because the shadow

was indicated in the rough sketch,

I just have to follow

the existing tone well

and continue to add details

This Korean, so Asian faces

are very difficult to draw

If it was a black character,

the detailed tone control

of the colors can be

difficult at times, but

for Asian faces like Koreans,

in comparison to Western figures, they feel

very flat

or have a round like

feeling

So, while Western faces

have very precise

shapes and thus is very easy

to catch characteristics such as

the nose that is sticking out or the sunken eyes

But now,

for Asian faces

these details are comparatively weak, so

you have to be very sensitive

in identifying the shape form

when doing the design

The nose looks too flat, so I want to make it higher

Drawing the

nose

For all the

dense and difficult shapes, there are so many

techniques that make these forms

a lot more simple,

and one of the

main methods is to

create angular shapes

I have taken the hand as an example

where you would add angles like a robot

when drawing,

or a lot of people

would use cylinders

However, for me

the cylinders don’t match well

I know that

people who use the cylinders well

are very capable of matching

the form well,

but I like very precise details so

I prefer a more angular,

robotic shape

when testing the basic form

or when adding very

precise designs

This character also has

beards on his cheeks

Also, I don’t think having the mouth open

suits the feeling of this character,

so let’s close his mouth

Then,

for this part below the nose,

a method

that I use often is this,

where I make

a temporary palette,

use a

smudge tool

to neutralize this,

then use these as middle tone

highlight,

and black color, then

apply these colors

Another method I use

is pick up the surrounding, existing tone

to progress

with the painting

I use both these methods,

and I follow this

even when working with color

Some people would take these from the palette

and individually do the matching,

but regardless of the method,

if you are comfortable with doing it,

it becomes your technique,

so

it’s not like

you have to do it my way

For me, however,

from a value control perspective,

meaning in order to control these tones,

I like to pick up

the surrounding tones

and use them for the painting

Let’s add white here as well

Not noise, but transfer

The direction light

is coming from the left

, but from the right on the screen

I will assume

the lighting is not very strong

and just lightly indicate it

with highlights

This person seems to be

slightly chubbier than

this image

Then,

just a bit more

It could also be because this person has smaller eyes,

so

going with sharper eyes

by making the eyes bigger

and lifting the eyebrows

could make it so that the

face looks smaller

, and the volume has the potential

to be adjusted

The ears would also get some light,

with the ear on this side being darker

Because for this character, this part

below the forehead should be bulging,

so I will just add a little bit of accent,

just slightly

This could be done with a brush, but

you can select this,

copy and paste,

then press Ctrl + U again

to open up hue saturation

Making adjustments on here

is very simple

like this

Now here, I will go slightly darker

it is a very subtle difference,

just slightly

Then,

for this shadow line,

I will keep the tonality

while doing the detailed work

For this part, draw

another line to express this

I am indicating here that

this is a shadow line

This became a more

serious face

These hunters

or shooters may have been,

although

different case by case,

a somewhat lonely occupation

You would have to go to the mountains alone,

stay in hiding

without making a sound,

so I think this job

involves a lot of

lonely situations, simply put

This job would require living and survive alone

a lot more

compared to

other occupations

So, with a more serious

and no grin on the face

the face just now had a small grin

with a lively kind of

feeling, but let’s get rid of that

It would be good to save here,

but I shall continue without saving,

even though getting into the habit of saving

is really good

This is just a sample,

a head sample for

canvas sketches,

but just as an insurance,

because you

never know what will happen

The computer could suddenly shut down, or something like that

Here, I would like to

add a funny

design factor,

which is

just a layer on top of this headgear

So in order for the waterproof

to be done more efficiently,

I think

that he would have placed

a leather layer on top

like this

This leather would be from a dinosaur,

which he would have caught previously

What would it be like to have this on top

Let me now look at some dinosaur references

Here

it is

It would be

a sort of reptile like form

Then,

here is what to do

There are two methods, one of which is to look at this

and just paint it

You could just paint it and have some circle patterns

to make the dinosaur

skin texture

Another method here is

to take this

as such

then taking the texture from here

like this

From here, make the level stronger

so that more black is remaining

After that, press select,

and if you press

similar here, it only catches the black

Since this is selected here again,

copy and paste

to get the black and white

Now you could decorate

this on top like some sort of illusion

I will now use warp

and pull this

to fit the shape

like this

Older photoshops did not have this

warp function

something remotely similar

was just distort,

which involved movement

around this much,

but recent photoshops have this warp function

which is very useful

in these kinds of situations

So here, just do a quick

clean up

so that

this matches the other sketch styles

Erase this slightly

and lower the opacity a little bit

like this

then

just

slightly

Then, going back to the brush

on a new layer,

so that the texture on top becomes more vivid

you just lightly

touch this with a brush

Various textures can

be applied on top

very quickly

like this

You could obviously draw this by hand,

but

work is always a

fight against time

You often are given a set amount of time

to have the detail completed

to a certain extent,

so you must consider all ways

to save time if possible

Just the finishing touches here,

and since a lot of the shadow information

is gone now,

I will try and indicate this more

like this

Erase this a little,

and also for this side

like this

Then, since this

reptile like skin

has a sense of glowing under light,

so add

highlights that are a little

stronger than that

for the gat

Now here, if you feel that this

is not enough,

Then,

I could add a very interesting

factor here

If this character

likes to decorate himself, then

I would feel that

he would use the dinosaur feet for decorations

like this

So

like

the feet would be stuffed

and placed here

It could be bigger, and

various dinosaur heads could be added here,

but I think

that the claws look more threatening

So,

I think he would have

added claws on top of his satgat

First blackout the silhouette,

then without

the sketch destroying

the silhouette too much,

if you try these interesting

creative things

you could end up with a more interesting concept

Here too,

blocking the shape first is important

Block it, and add

a sense of lighting,

then use a brush to draw

details on top

Let me quickly

organize the form more

and then continue

I think

it would have

been placed on top like this

I think I have to adjust the warp for this as well

to this size,

and then the claw in the middle could be bigger

Let’s add more highlight

here so that it

matches the value of the hat

Once the face is more or less done,

take this again,

adjust the size here,

set the fill to about 62%

and then

fit it back here

It does not have to fit perfectly

just make adjustments

and if it feels

more or less right,

then stop

around here

and then increase this

The shadow is very strong, so I will suppress this a little

like this

This design gives a hint of how the skin

was pasted

The small design here

shows strands that seem

to be sticking out, suggesting it was added by pulling

Here,

I will show the straw sticking out like this

and add exaggerated indication

to reflect that they are of

different materials

Indicate the difference in texture

here as well

The hat now looks really heavy,

and this is something that will

be dealt with when making

future variations, so

for now

we will keep it somewhat like this

For this part, make this clothing area

and tailor it

to the previous texture feeling

This is one way of

doing this, and there

are many more

Here, go to images, adjust, then

when I click this button

called

Threshold

it makes this

completely black and white

so now there is just

black and white left

when you do this

Let me show you

Just black and white are left

Here, you can adjust the amount of black and white like this,

so when you want a cleaner structure

this is what you would do

If you see, it is completely

black and white

But for me, I

see that the grey areas have a sense of detail too,

so let me also use this part Now, I will just select white

with similar, and

then take this as a texture

to apply

Cut this,

cut here,

then here again

Then, we could try various ways

so that we can get to the details

a little more

with this

Then, copy,

and then with the unfilled detail,

you can combine it

like this

Then, I think that this detail

would look good coming down from one side

of the dress Now here,

add the shape, and then

I also use this a lot

This is called the stamp,

where I press stamp

and then the Alt key

I want to fill this part,

and I could fill it like this

by copying it again

and placing it here, but

in order to make it more natural

I can press Alt, hold this part,

then drag it like this,

and you can see that an arrow comes up

The arrow is following,

and the brush

enters an exact copy of this section

So click here,

then here, and here again,

so quickly

you can create texturing

in a more natural way

Add texture,

and since this is a very wide surface

instead of simply adding highlights here,

take the texture again,

select black, similar,

then copy and paste

Make it so that this really feels

like a dinosaur skin with bulging

like this

After that, go back to this layer

and for this part, I think this

light value

would fit well

So, I would repaint using this value

in order to make the details here look clearer

The coloring is done in this way

you have to think about establishing the color

in terms of the lighting

How the lighting comes from which direction, for instance

This would not feel flabby like regular clothing,

but

a small amount of shadow information

that would allow the viewers

to see the thickness of the leather

could be a good detail to add

So, with small wrinkles,

if the leather is worn and is dropping down like this,

there could be a sort of

wrinkled effect here, so

if you can

indicate this

it would look more realistic

This character now

has one side of his clothing made out of

dinosaur skin

Now, let me add more details to the hand

When seeing the silhouette, this area looks too bulging,

so I think I have to press this side down

If the values become too similar

the eyes tend to move towards that direction,

so it is important to think about the flow of the eyes

when doing the adjustment

Bring this back again,

and draw this line more with shadow

so that viewers can recognize that this is the strap

for the bag

A little more on this side

When I see this reference, I see that

the silhouette is sticking out further

with this more scattered when falling down

It does not have to all be like that

and I will just do this for some sections

and break the design,

because this whole thing

feels like some sort of a panel,

so I want to

add lines that break

this a little bit

I will continue to break this,

but since breaking this too thin

would shift the focus of the eyes

to another area

so I would have to divide this well

with some lines having points added to them

and other lines spread out more

so that this bag is more noticeable

For the hand,

let me try

adding details again

I could take a separate canvas to do this,

but if you don’t have much time, take this,

copy,

physically enlarge it

and just draw on top

An important thing

here

is that you sometimes

merge unconsciously

If you do that, this is what the final design product would look like,

so be careful with it

I always recommend that

you save

when doing your work

Let’s describe the details on the hand

more, while

thinking about the structure well

For the body drawing, there isn’t a way around it

if you continue to draw and practice a lot,

then

you would gain some visual sense where

you go ‘oh, this muscle bends like this here

and with the lighting, this muscle

would look like this shape’

and notice this more than before,

so just draw as much as you can

and practice by applying to the character

Another important thing here

are famous paintings,

like old master drawings,

where if those master paintings

have great details for

hands, etc

you can practice by trying to copy it

Copying that kind of drawing also results in learning

a lot of things

How did they

describe the light in this type of lighting, with what kind of brush thickness

I will also describe the tendon

I like this kind of brush touches

I have practiced and viewed a lot of references

of works by impressionist artists

There was John Singer Sargent,

and other contemporary

impressionist artists such as

Monet or Degas

How they used lighting to paint

physical details with simplified palettes

You can see

all the brush markings

when you look at the details of their works

Try following those brush markings to

practice painting - it would be very helpful

The hand is more or less done with this,

and I will again

lower the opacity,

and once the size is adjusted

the hand is big here so I should make it smaller like this

This looks small enough, so

place it like this,

and then increase the opacity again Then with that

the hand is added

He is holding the belt like this,

and so iI will indicate the texture here as well

I will have to add more shadows here

This is a very dangerous design,

honestly speaking, because this

can break the realistic

illusion,

but I thought trying this out

would be good so I added it

If this is too distinct, it could ruin the character

I feel that if I showed this to the director or the lead,

or the client, I think that they

definitely could tell me to get rid of it

Of course, this depends on the director, but

since we

are working

for hire, if

clients or other people

request changes, we always have to be prepared However,

if you don’t recognize or try this at all in the development

stages, or if

the direction of the design is not very smooth for you,

then where is the fun in that

So, just try adding this,

and if they say it doesn’t look that great,

then just take it out

Or, if you have strong faith that this detail

is crucial for the overall design,

then you can logically explain

why this design should be included

with manners

With this explanation, you could

at times lead designers or clients,

which adds some responsibility

to the design

Always be open minded,

open mind always

For all requests that are pursued by the client,

you listen to it and put it in action

having this type of mindset is very important

I will discuss props in a separate lecture

so I will just simply indicate the props

this prop design is also a very crucial

factor in composing the character,

so I do not want to

touch the details of it just yet

Indicate the straw shoes like this,

and even though I would like to add more details here,

since this part is the one with the most important detail,

I have spent more time on this area

So the big flow,

meaning as it was for our previous designs, is

the overall flow going along smoothly

You have to continue to check up on this

Here, this is already the third design that came up,

and this part became somewhat heavy so

how to maintain this balance

whether you would do something like this

or do this here,

make the eyes go in this direction,

then pass by this area

to move to this area,

and go back to the design here

to see if you would make this dropdown

Think about all of these things

Right now, as I am doing the design,

I think this chest area now has a lot of

small details, and so it is grabbing

the visual attention

To match the balance here, I think that

here you would

need a little bit of difference

from a design

perspective

So that something

catches the eyes a little more,

you could just break this part as such

in a simple way

You could emphasize a particular form

and break it

Or if you want this to be stronger,

you would again

add

other designs here

that do not look overly excessive

I think having a sort of net

installed here could be nice

So a sort of net here

is somewhat functional,

but it could have rocks here

so that this does not blow with the wind

You could think about designs like this

Let me just indicate this to see what it looks like

I’ll turn this off for now,

and see if this

is balanced,

and check that the flow of the eyes

is going properly

So with the eyes, you go from here

to here

like this

and feel the overall flow

Do you just want to go very simple

Or

or do you want a sense of flow

This is too apparent

from far away, so I will also press this down

a little bit

So, when you are adding any form or design,

it is good if you have very clear reasoning behind it

There are always purposes in place

if during the designing you just randomly add

details here

and there

and all over,

then there is no more flow of the eyes

When this happens,

to the human eye,

this feels too chaotic

and complex

Even if a lot of designs are in place,

if the designs are organized in some sort of order,

regardless of how much you would add from here

as long as that order is maintained

it would still

look good visually

Concept designer is simply put,

someone who brings order to the design

Here I think

there could be a stronger silhouette,

or shadow information

The feet could be further apart here

The feet are heavily lacking detail,

but we can just work

on this later

so just keep it like this

I will also make this a bit

brighter

like this,

and from here

I will talk

about the two designs I do often

in order to

make this sketch stand out a bit more

Now, let’s say that this is the sketch done

you could just present it in this way

However, if you want to emphasize this character

and add clothing that puts more emphasis,

then you would

first take this character

I know that

some people who do elaborate details use masking

tool

to make a very clean masking

from when they first draw the character

This here is the masking tool,

so this becomes red,

and when you

turn this off, then

this part is selected

So, those people who draw in a very sensitive way do this masking

like this

almost all in pencil

When you do this with pencil compared to the brush,

as I have mentioned before,

the pencil fills the pixels,

so when you do this

it is filled here

and then when you fill again

then turn masking off,

then this part becomes perfectly clear

However, if you were to use a normal brush

to do the masking,

the problem

is, as you can see,

that

a sort of gradation is formed

Then, when you select,

the gradation is created

Here, it just looks like pixels, but

when you erase this or copy it to somewhere else,

you will be able to see this phenomenon

of rather blurry

details forming

Therefore,

when you are doing masking, you can either use a pencil

or do them one by one

using the selecting tool in

excruciating detail, but

this would take a lot of time

Those people with a lot of pensions could do this,

and those with a lot of time could also do this

For this detail, I will just go as it is,

although I am not fully satisfied

I will add

some lighting information

so that I can confirm something is here

Add the lighting

like this,

and then a bigger highlight at the back here

For this highlight, making

this into a dinosaur teeth shape

would also look cool, but let’s just

do this for now

Let’s try doing just a few details like this

with claw-like figures

You always end up getting very greedy when drawing,

and sometimes you have to suppress that The most important thing is

to complete this on time, and no matter how good my product is

,if I am not able to meet the deadline, there could be problems

This is done

And now

I will share a few very important

points

I can’t say that this is extremely important

or that it is critical in terms of its

importance in design,

but there are a few methods that can make the

flat atmosphere of my design

more dimensional, and with a greater sense of realism

The first is

let me clean this up a bit first

It’s clear

Now,

press this Alt key and then press

the layer to select the entire thing

like this

Now, you can check for

dirty, un-erased lines

in the surrounding or any foreign substances

It is important to check for this

Now, add one layer, take this back,

then shadow

I will try to draw shadows that make this character

look more dimensional

There are various ways to draw shadows

You could

just make a

very simple drawing like this

This is the most conventional way,

and I also

like to do this often

Just do it like this, and

you

could consider this done

But, there is another method I use,

which is to

copy the entire thing,

go to hue saturation again, which I like,

and then

make the lightness of this to completely black

and make this into a silhouette

Put this silhouette at the back,

transfer this again,

then here

press distort

Which way would the lighting go

This looks about right

Then like this,

you can make the shadow

and indicate it as such

Do this,

and then

for the dirty parts

or parts that don’t fit, you

could just erase it

From here, then move to the filter,

and

add a slight blur

I often use Gaussian blur here,

and the Gaussian blur

allows using this arrow

to adjust the amount of blur applied

Make this slightly blur

Then, select this, deselect

by pressing Alt + H

So deselect essentially means hiding,

so this selection becomes hidden

with the selected effects still maintained

Here,

do this, and

then slightly disperse

the shadow towards the back

Let me try and extend the shadow now

The light is in fact too extreme right now,

but just know that this type of method exists,

and I use this method a lot

Because of the position in which the character is standing,

this could be less effective,

but adding shadows like this

could be very good,

and this is one of the functions

Now, once the shadow is done

what other factor can give the character

a more dimensional feeling

It is the background

I will try

to create a background here,

and there is no set rule for this or anything

But the way I do it usually

is to make a small painting,

then

spread this using the smudge tool,

select and cut the sides of this,

and then

make this whole

thing bigger

So just adjust it

like this,

then lower the opacity a little

I am doing this because it was too thick before

Then,

for this part,

again,

white

Open this up again,

cut both sides -

Oh, I have used the wrong layer Then now I can go to the history

and organize

this again

The history layer is very important

I just made a mistake

of drawing on the shadow

Without the history,

I would have to do Ctrl + Z,

but there is a range of Ctrl + Z

in terms of its deleting function,

so once it goes beyond that range, you can’t revert back

So, making this type of history

allows you to press the history and instantly

go back in time

Here, I think going front is better,

so I will try and match

the value for the

shoes

around this much

This shoe is too dark,

so let me try and brighten this

Then

also this part,

I would have to brighten it

This time, I will use levels

to add it,

and since this line became too straight

I will add a slight curve here,

so that it has a bit more structure

Also here,

I think I have to give more lighting information

Add highlight to the bag as well,

but not too excessively

You have to be very careful when adding these highlights

If you do this

too excessively,

it gives a feeling of a setup

like pieces cut with knives

or with scissors for instance, so

when you add highlights here,

really put a lot of thought into it,

and reflect your thinking in all the highlights

added

When you see on the web for instance,

you can often see concept artists who love highlights

and made pieces

with an excessive amount of them

When you see those pieces,

you think that

the composition of the piece is really good, but

the eyes are shifted

completely towards the powerful highlights

For example, if I were to do this here,

then

this dimensional feeling completely goes away

For such bright highlights,

use them with extreme caution,

or make sure to refer to the reference

for highlights

You have to think of

cutting something with a very sharp knife without a ruler

when adding

highlights

Always be extremely careful

Also, check what the overall atmosphere is

whenever you are adding the highlight

Let me make this brighter

as the focal point has to go higher

For the upper area,

I will overall

make the area brighter by using brighten

like this

This would make it so that the eyes

start from the top

and the attention starts from the top

due to this adjustment

We can’t start from the bottom, because

without this here, the problem is

if the eyes go down,

this is the bright area

with the shoe

here

But, if the upper area

becomes brighter,

now the eyes start to read from the top,

then flow through the character and drop all the way down

like this

Now here, if you want to

give a more realistic effect,

then you can now add a background

I am going to add a background here,

and there are really many ways to do it

Some concept designers

could add it in this way

I am sure you have seen this a lot,

where you add this sort of graphic

design so that

this becomes more clear

this is used often

But,

I will try

this

First, I will

select this,

and then clean up the surrounding

for the background

First,

I will find for references of backgrounds

that could be used here

Any background is honestly fine,

but you want to avoid

designs that can damage the design of

the character

So, the image should be light and

be able to support the feeling of

the character in a compositional

manner

Now from here,

let’s try using this

Just as I have done with the dinosaur skin texture,

I will increase the level and the chroma as much as possible,

make this blackout again,

then similar

Pressing similar makes the computer

select all the colors similar

to this selected black color

Now, copy and paste

to obtain the image of the tree

Now, I can

place this at the back,

then pull it

so that the background feels more like a forest

Then,

let me lower the fill,

and then

press the gradation tool here,

press masking,

erase this

part

like this,

then flat,

go to filter,

and blur again,

so adding

more Gaussian blur

Here I think

the tree texture at the back

is too strong

that it sort of swallows the character

Because the noise is too high,

I will go back to

blur, then Gaussian blur,

and make the blurring a bit stronger

For the ground,

you can do a similar

way to what I have done

Like this

I think we could try using this as the ground

or this texture

Here,

there is water present,

but also for this we could

make this

stronger

and then

press similar to

try and just take the

rocks if possible

Yes, this looks

okay

Now, it would be good

to put this behind the shadow,

so place it as such

So, without the water, it just feels as if

the character is standing on some rocks

Or with this, you could

try this again

Go to layer, just flat, then

here,

I think the value

has to be slightly thicker

a little more

like this

A bit thicker

I am not getting the rock value

so let me try and go darker

a little bit

From here,

I will try to temporarily erase the forms here

It kind of feels like the character is on snow,

possibly because of the clothing

After this,

you can’t end it here

I guess you could, but

one more thing I want to do is

add another layer

on top of this character

Then,

from here use the smudging tool to

do this

After that,

from the top here,

this gives a very subtle sensation

of the light

coming in

Also for here,

I will just select this part,

and go with a slightly different method

for this

do this

go to select,

then Gaussian blur

I could just do the smudging as I have done before with the hands,

but if you want a smoother gradation

this

Gaussian blur tool

is also very effective

Then, go to overlay,

and then control the lighting here a bit more

so that the floor

is visible on the ground

Now, visually,

I think this part looks too dark,

so let me try making this a bit brighter

I will

press this down

just a little bit

I think the gun area could also go slightly brighter

Now, the sketch is more or less completed,

and the most important thing here is

to try and check up again

Is the ratio or the flow of the various designs appropriate

Look at the navigator and continue to do the check up

Right now,

there are various ways to perform this check up

You could copy this

and try and flip the entire thing

Or, you could look at this upside down

What I am noticing right now

is that for this pose, the face

is probably too big

So now, I think I should make the face

a bit smaller to make it fit better

in terms of the ratio

I think this proportion is good

Just clear this part

When you are doing this part of the work,

it is good to delete all backgrounds

and turn off all layers

before starting

You can avoid doing these small things

Find all ways in which you can be efficient with time

and do the modification and editing

A bit more like this

So, we have completed the black and white full body

character costume and head,

along with the background touch

In the next lecture, I will talk about

designing props

for the characters

Thank you for joining me for such a long time

This concludes the lecture