Training Course: Stylized Character Concept Art – The Software Brothers
Hello and Welcome to this Exclusive short Training Course on how to create a stylized character in both the softwares, Photoshop and Gimp.
In this series, we go through and concept out the stylized character software brothers, Photoshop and Gimp. Through this course, Tim Von Rueden will give you a complete run-through on how to create and concept these two characters first in Photoshop CS5, then in open source software Gimp 2.8, using a Wacom Intuos4 tablet.
What is this Course all about?
After the interview with Cameron Davis and reading the new OZ graphic novels with the wonderful art done by Skottie Young, I have been wanting to do a character series that wasn’t focused on realism but rather creating characters that are stylized and fun.
This course is great for beginners because I am only using the circle hard edged brush to complete both pictures. I am not doing any fancy color work or shading. I am using a two-tone color shading and the focus is bringing life and personality into these characters with limited tools and techniques and still having them look awesome! This short series on creating a stylized character will go through setting up the line art, and then coloring them in two separate tutorials in both the softwares, Photoshop and Gimp. Both very similar to each other but I wanted to show that since the tools are practically the same, the software doesn’t really matter. Then In the last video and combine the two characters into one canvas to finish it off.
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Note: the introduction is freely available for anyone to view to help give you a better preview of the course Enjoy!
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Photoshop Brother Part 1 - Lineart
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(15:00)
Photoshop Brother Part 2 - Color
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(13:41)
Gimp Brother Part 1 - Lineart
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(18:04)
Gimp Brother Part 2 - Color
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(14:03)
Bringing the Software Brothers Together with Final Touches
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(11:54)
Good series but had to notice one thing – the PS brother has a full set of teeth and the Gimp brother has uneven teeth. Was that a subconscious statement? LOL
Haha no it was suppose to represent that he was the younger brother, in relation to how mature my knowledge is within each software. Photoshop I’ve known much longer so I created him as the older more mature brother. But it’s funny you noticed that because after I was done I thought, “Oh man, I hope no one looks at this the wrong way lol”
LOL great series! I have just purchased PS so this will be a great learning tool for me. TYVM for all your hard work
More of these..
Thank you…
Still downloading the series, but it looks like it will be a great one! This is a nice toony style that I am shooting for for an animation series if I can manage to get around to it. I’ll have to do a lot of concept art/testing to see if it will work for me, but sure this series will help.
Thanks for the tutorial
When I bought my Intuos 4 it came with Elements 9 so I am missing a lot of the features of CS5 unless I just don’t know how to access them.
In PS how are you erasing when you have the Brush tool selected with a Black forground color?
Does anyone know how to make a GROUP with Elements 9?
Can I just use Opacity instead of Flow because I don’t have it?
Are there any plug in’s I can get to have more than just a bacic control over the customizing of my brush?
Can you make and save paths in Elements?
Hey there! So even if the brush is selected, I can still use the eraser side of the pen tablet. Depending on what you are trying to do flow will make your brush strokes less bold while opacity will directly effect the amount of what you see on each layer, same with if the opacity setting is on your brush. Hope that helps a bit!
Hi Tim,
What a wonderful surprise to wake up to on a Saturday morning. All I can say is:
PERFECT!!!
Thank You So Much,
-OldMan44
Thank you! I’m glad it made your Saturday morning all that more eventful!
Hi i just found this so i am happy to see the gimp sections, but i have my volume @ 100% and my headphones @100% and still find it hard to here what you are saying.
I would realy like a series on how to set up and use gimp like the photoshop version which i have downloaded.
I have photo shop elements but can this be adapted for the photoshop tutorial ?
I’d never heard of Skottie Young before… but wow, his stuff is great! His stuff would be wonderful for animation (hand-drawn, of course). Very good course you did, too! I am inspired!
Thanks! I am glad that I can pass along those who inspire me to you guys as well! His work is great and his illustrations in the OZ series are just as wonderful and my personal favorites of his.
Hi Tim!
Thank you very much for this tutorial. It’s great to see the process done with the two software packages.
I have Gimp and PS elements 10. Will be putting what I learned to practice.
Hey it’s Jonathan Williamson and his brother Pippin. Great likenesses.
I’m not sure this is funny or sad, I just realized that Concept Cookie existed a couple of days ago and I been coming to this site for months (and a Citizen to boot).
I’ve been too wrapped up with Blender to notice the other goodies on the site. It’s nice to step away from the modeling and just draw…it’s been too long.
Thanks for the tutorial Tim, I’ll visit daily from now on.
-j
Actually me too! I was concentrating so much in Blender and I found out about Concept Cookie yesterday…
I hope enjoy Concept Cookie!