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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Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Óscar Lloréns
A course by Óscar Lloréns
Óscar Lloréns is an illustrator and designer. Over the course of his nearly two-decade career, he has worked for leading advertising agencies in Spain, the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom.
His illustrations have been the driving force behind major campaigns for big-name brands, including Coca-Cola, Fiat, Red Bull, Vodafone, Movistar, and Cepsa, and have covered the pages of newspapers and magazines such as El País Semanal and Vanity Fair. His crowded illustrations have also been seen by millions of viewers as the backdrop in the confession room on the TV show Gran Hermano.
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