Illustration Techniques and Styles with Procreate
Lights and shadows
A course by Óscar Lloréns , Illustrator
About the video: Lights and shadows
Overview
“So that our project does not seem too flat, we are going to slightly retouch the color, darkening the shadow areas and lightening those parts where the light is most projected. We will use the alpha lock of the color layer so as not to get out of the contours when applying the colors. As in the previous lesson, we will give these tones with the watercolor brush, but in a more detailed way.”
In this video lesson Óscar Lloréns addresses the topic: Lights and shadows, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration Techniques and Styles with Procreate. Learn how to approach an illustration project with different techniques to find your style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Light and shadows To stop our illustration from looking flat, in this lesson, I'll show you how to adjust it in a way that emphasizes the areas of light and shadows. Let's get started. We'll start to intensify the colors in our illustration and we'll start to illuminate and add shadows to the whole project in order to add more life and volume to the whole illustration, because it's currently a bit pale and lacking in color. You've already seen that I always use the Quoll brush, we're going to continue using it. This brush responds very well to pressure. The harder we press, as well as incre...”
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Course summary for: Illustration Techniques and Styles with Procreate
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Category
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Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Óscar Lloréns
A course by Óscar Lloréns
Óscar Lloréns is an illustrator and designer. In his career, spanning almost two decades, he has worked for the best advertising agencies in Spain, the USA, Canada, France, and the UK.
His illustrations have appeared in campaigns for important brands such as Coca-Cola, Fiat, Red Bull, Vodafone, Movistar, and Cepsa, among many others, and have also filled the pages of publications such as El País Semanal and Vanity Fair. In addition, millions of television viewers have seen his illustrations in one of the most important places in the Gran Hermano house: the confessional.
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