Composition and Color for Creative Illustration

Overview

“Now that we have our thumbnails, we're going to choose one and we are going to work on it. Here is where you begin to refine it, drawing some of the details, but most importantly making sure the composition is correct and the way that you want it to be. At that stage, you can either work on paper or with your iPad. Remember, you chose your materials. ”

In this video lesson Marcos Chin addresses the topic: Refining Your Sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Composition and Color for Creative Illustration. Learn how to visually interpret a written piece and turn it into a meaningful illustration.

Partial transcription of the video

“Refining Your Sketch In this lesson we'll start refining our sketch. I'm using an iPad. You don't have to draw digitally, you can work analog if you want. I also have my photo reference here in case I need it. In the last lesson we were doing a bunch of gestures, brainstorms, thumbnails, quick sketches. The sketch that I chose referred to Elton John as this strong character where he was placed on the page in a symmetrical way and there was an explosion of color referring to rainbow, the LGBT community and feathers. This was the drawing that will inspire my final illustration. What I'll do n...”

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Course summary for: Composition and Color for Creative Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (232)
• 4413 students
• 4 units
• 18 lessons (3h 6m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration