Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper

Overview

“Now I will show you how I paint my illustrations and how I have come to define my color palette over time.”

In this video lesson Alfredo Cáceres addresses the topic: From drawing to color, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper. Learn the whole process of drawing and coloring narrative scenes from scratch.

Partial transcription of the video

“Transforming a drawing into color In this lesson I'll show you how I paint my illustrations. As I told you in previous lessons, my choice of colors stems from markers and pens and I got used to using a very limited palette. What does this mean? I use few colors and I use one or two to highlight some sections of the image. Here's an example of what I mean. I've chosen grays, I always use grays, and on the grays I highlight some parts with ocher and red tones. Here you can see how few colors I use in an illustration. There are base colors and highlighting colors, nothing more. Here you see th...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper

• Level: Beginner
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• 6007 students
• 4 units
• 12 lessons (1h 30m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Children's Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Narrative, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting