Illustrating Emotions through Color
Let's add the color to our illustration 4
A course by Gaby Zermeño , Illustrator and Concept Artist
About the video: Let's add the color to our illustration 4
Overview
“In this part of the lesson I will talk about the concept of the vividness of color to add more colors to those we already have, I will teach you how to use this principle to enrich your illustrations.”
In this video lesson Gaby Zermeño addresses the topic: Let's add the color to our illustration 4, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrating Emotions through Color. Harness the power of color to create emotional illustrations that impact the eye as well as the heart.
Partial transcription of the video
“Let's add color to our illustration I want to share this concept of the vividness of color, that before I really did not understand what this concept referred to because I heard it in a lecture that Nathan Fox gave. He is a DreamWorks artist and is prolific at his work. He commented that to add some liveliness and vitality to the color, the color had to be broken into tones. The first time I heard that, I didn't understand what he meant Why break the color what do you mean? It was when I began to observe the work of Nathan Fox and above all that of a painter called Joaquín Sorolla, that I u...”
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Course summary for: Illustrating Emotions through Color
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Color Theory, Concept Art, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Narrative, Traditional illustration

Gaby Zermeño
A course by Gaby Zermeño
Gaby Zermeño is a freelance illustrator and concept artist from Guadalajara (Mexico). She specializes in digital illustration and character and concept art development.
She has illustrated children's books for publishers such as Macmillan, Cambridge University Press, and Storytime Magazine, created storyboards for Netflix, and animated projects for studios like Anima, Mighty, Lunch Films, and Sesame Workshop. She has also participated in advertising illustration projects for Cartoon Network and OhMyDisney.
In addition, Gaby teaches Professional Illustration at ESCENA, an animation and digital art school in Mexico.
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