Composition and Color for Creative Illustration

Putting It All Together

A course by Marcos Chin , Illustrator

100% positive reviews (232)

4,413 students

Audio: English

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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

“Putting It All Together Now that we've finished having fun creating the textures and making the marks, we'll move to the next section which is to put everything together in Photoshop. Let's begin. What I want to do first is to open the background layer. Next we're going to open all of the separations one by one, going from the background to the foreground. We're gonna hit Apple or Command + A to select all and then Command + C to copy. We're gonna move over to the background layer and hit Command + Shift + V. That indicates pasting in place. Now you can see why it was important to keep the ...”

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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

Marcos Chin

A course by Marcos Chin

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Illustrator

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.