Composition and Color for Creative Illustration

Overview

“This is the favorite part of my process when I get to add my handmade textures and marks. Although I use the computer to draw with I was trained traditionally using analog materials such as charcoal, graphite, and different kinds of paints. I believe incorporating these textures into your illustration at the end-stage helps to bring in your personality to your digital drawings. Let's do it.”

In this video lesson Marcos Chin addresses the topic: Creating Your Own Textures: Show Your Personality, 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

“Creating Your Own Textures: Show Your Personality Now we're finally near the finish line, we're continuing with making textures. This time I want you to create your own and I'll create some too. I wanna share with you different ways to create textures, using different materials and having these materials express through you. You're probably wondering what is all this. Let's start with this roller. What I'm using in terms of paint is just simple gouache. This paper is Arches, it's a 140 pound paper. I'm using something a bit heavier because at this stage I'll be using a lot of wet media and ...”

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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