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Creative Bloq
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Álvaro Jiménez

How to use colour to create beastly character art in Photoshop

Digital art showing a demon with a sword and a staff.

This is a character concept for Kimera Models, a miniatures brand for war game and hobby painters. I was commissioned to make a demon, similar to the mood and style of Blizzard’s Diablo saga.

My process is quite simple. Although I use digital art software like Photoshop, I try to stay as close as possible to how I would work with traditional media. I usually use greyscales as they help me to quickly establish solid values and lighting. I then work on a Multiply blending mode layer, using black and white to build the main volumes with a very noisy brush.

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