Composition and Color for Creative Illustration
Evaluating and Refining Your Final Drawing
A course by Marcos Chin , Illustrator
About the video: Evaluating and Refining Your Final Drawing
Overview
“Once you’re done it’s important to ask yourself some questions that are related to some of the things you were trying to get across when you first began. I like to think of this as a refinement. Let me guide you through the refining stage. Note for after the lesson. You've put a lot of effort so far. I think you deserve to rest. Actually, resting is a fundamental component in the process of learning. Reflect on the things you've learned, reflect on your work. And make sure you check the additional resources for this unit.”
In this video lesson Marcos Chin addresses the topic: Evaluating and Refining Your Final Drawing, 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
“Evaluating And Refining Your Final Drawing In this lesson we'll evaluate and refine our final drawing to make sure that we're happy with it before we bring it into Photoshop. So before we export this final drawing into Photoshop, there are a few things to consider, make sure that the composition's correct and the colors are conveying the type of mood or atmosphere. All these little things are really important. So once you figure that out, let's move forward. Once we're at this stage, it's really important to ask yourself the question, I know it's really funny to ask yourself this question, ...”
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Course summary for: Composition and Color for Creative Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration

Marcos Chin
A course by Marcos Chin
Marcos Chin is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared on surface and wall designs, on book and CD covers, advertisements, fashion catalogs, and magazines. He has worked with companies such as MTA Arts for Transit, Neiman Marcus, Fiat, Budweiser, Time, Rolling Stone Magazine, The New Yorker, GQ, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times.
Marcos has given lectures and workshops throughout the US and abroad. He currently lives in New York, where he teaches Illustration at the School of Visual Arts.
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