Creative Techniques for Cover Illustration

Overview

“In this lesson, I'll show you how I take my refined sketch and import it into Adobe Photoshop to play with colour and find the palette I'd like to use. What I’m trying to do here is make a loose guide for the finished artwork. I am not trying to do an exact colour match at this stage but something close to it.”

In this video lesson Julia Breckenreid addresses the topic: Colour Roughs, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Techniques for Cover Illustration. Learn to draw, paint, and retouch original illustrations filled with visual metaphors, from the initial sketch to the finished edit.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Colour Roughs In this lesson, we'll play with color roughs. I'll take my line art sketch into Photoshop and play with different color palettes to see the best direction to go with. Let's give it a try. I finished my line drawing, scanned it, and brought it into Photoshop into a new file with a larger canvas so I could copy and paste some of the images I had been collecting on my mood board. I do this so that I can use the Eyedropper tool to select colors that I like within any one of these little pictures or paintings that I've assembled, and with the Paint Bucket tool, I can drop that co...”

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Course summary for: Creative Techniques for Cover Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (35)
• 648 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 15m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Painting, Traditional illustration