This document outlines the topics covered in a digital painting course, including sketching, painting in Photoshop, and compositing techniques in 3D programs like Maya. The course consists of workshops where students will paint characters and tell stories or impressions with their paintings. Students are instructed to gather 100 references of things like animals, clothing, and human poses to use for their paintings. They will define their character's personality, poses, and the intended impression before sketching and refining their work in layers for things like lighting, shadows, and highlights. Color theory and models are introduced, and students will set up project files to convey different emotions through various rendering modes.

1. Digital painting
Issam Almustafa

2. Main pillars of the course
• 1- Sketching
• 2- Painting in PS
• 3- Compositing techniques 3D

3. Sketching
• Orthographic drawing
• Perspective drawing
• Character ( legs, hands, eyes, head, poses)

4. Painting
• Color correction modes
• Color models
• Light painting
• Shadow painting
• Highlights painting
• Eye painting
• Effects painting

5. Compositing 3D
• Using Maya
• Projection techniques

6. Today
• At least 2 character painting
• Define them today
• How to sketch
• Start your sketch
• Think of the mode
• Painting must tell something or provide impression of something
Workshop 1

7. Evaluation
Workshop
Workshop 1
Parcial I Parcial II
Final
project
30 %
30 %
30 %
• Every workshop Includes one or more than animation principle and is part of the final project
• Every workshop includes at least 30 new frames
• Every workshop must be delivered the same day
Workshop 2 Workshop 3 Workshop 4 Workshop 5 Workshop 6

8. How to do?
• Let’s discuss how to be creative
• Look for references at least 100
• 50 References include ( insects, animals, human, cloth, cultural
dresses)
• 50 References of difference human poses and facial expressions
• That folder is evaluated

9. Use this google world map
https://www.google.com/maps
Make a list of countries
How is your character?
Pet?
Person?
Mix cloth to create his dressing

10. Example of references

11. More examples

12. Study the texture

13. Human poses

14. Different eyes and shapes

15. Different facial expressions

16. Steps
• Define his personality
• Specify his pose
• Determine the impression to deliver
• Make a sketch no cloth bounding box technique
• Choose dressing
• Refine

17. Perspective e drawing
Everything starts with a bounding box

18. Exercise to start
• Lets a draw different angles of the camera looking at the head
• Different camera angles looking at the body

19. Try to start your sketch for workshop 1

20. Today:
• Deliver workshop 1
• The character pose with bounding box
• The character head with the facial expression defined

21. Examples

22. Start make silly sketch from the right perspective
Put the proper facial expression
• Example : My hero is flying after destroying a factory
that was constructed to manufacture
weapons.

23. Today
• Introduction to color theory
• Set up final project file for painting
• Evaluate worskhop2 ( complete character+ face painting)

24. Introduction to color theory

25. Models
The hue-saturation-value (HSV) color
model

26. Color and emotions

27. Your folder should have
• Lighting layer or folder
• Shadow layer or folder
• Highlights layer or folder
• Face layer or folder
• Background layer or folder ( take into account fog and far objects
decay)
• Folder that contains different modes of the final painting to convey
different emotions

28. How to start with painting?
• Use the reference from the folders you have created
• Try different backgrounds
• Try to mix
• Combine modes