Editorial Illustration for Magazines

Overview

“We have reached the last stage in constructing our image and I will show you how to complete your illustration by applying color to your different shapes. I will talk to you about how to think in terms of color choices and placement of the colors to find a balance in your image.”

In this video lesson Emma Hanquist addresses the topic: Applying Color, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Illustration for Magazines. Learn how to use illustration as a communication tool to creatively enhance a text.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, I'm going to show you the last step in creating your image. We're going to start applying color. I'm going to show you how many colors you'll need and where to place them to balance the image. So let's start coloring. The time has come for us to start applying color to the illustration. I've decided on a color palette that I like, so let's see how that would look like. The first thing I did was that I dragged the color palettes layer into my document and now I will use the eyedropper tool to sample those colors. So... Let's just start off by applying colors to all the differ...”

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Course summary for: Editorial Illustration for Magazines

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (318)
• 6864 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 13m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Communication, Digital Illustration, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration