Illustrating Emotions through Color
Let's add the color to our illustration 5
A course by Gaby Zermeño , Illustrator and Concept Artist
About the video: Let's add the color to our illustration 5
Overview
“Now I will show you the importance of not washing the colors. We will begin to give life to our illustration by working from the general to the particular, we will also create some lighting sources for our illustration by adding a little texture and taking into account our Moodboard for inspiration.”
In this video lesson Gaby Zermeño addresses the topic: Let's add the color to our illustration 5, 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 See that our character has already taken a little more liveliness using only this method of breaking the colors and to add more and more tones and not wash the colors. Imagine here, what I was not doing was this and this. No. Let's avoid this, let's not wash out. On the contrary, let's use more colors. This red is vibrating a lot. Well, using this logic, now let's go and add vitality, add liveliness, interest to our colors that right now they look very dull, but they will be more beautiful if we add this principle. The truth is that I prefer to work from ...”
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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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