Composition and Color for Creative Illustration
Putting It All Together
A course by Marcos Chin , Illustrator
About the video: Putting It All Together
Overview
“In this lesson, we will put everything together using Photoshop. Here everything is going to start to make more sense, everything is going to start to take shape.”
In this video lesson Marcos Chin addresses the topic: Putting It All Together, 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
“So now that we've finished having a lot of fun creating textures and making all the marks, We're going to move to the next section of this course, which is to put everything together in Photoshop. So let's begin. What I want to do first is to open the background layer. Next, we are just going to open all of the separations one by one, going from the background to the foreground. We're going to hit Apple or Command A to select all and then Command C to copy. We're going to move over to the background layer and then we're going to hit command shift V. That indicates pasting in place. Now you ...”
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Course summary for: Composition and Color for Creative Illustration
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Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
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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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