Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
Color 1
A course by Cecilia Varela , Illustrator Specializing in Children's Illustrations
Joined April 2020
Joined April 2020
About the video: Color 1
Overview
“Next, I'll show you how to apply color to your illustration. You will see some examples of types of palettes and I will tell you about the properties of color. I will teach you to create a palette that reflects the personality and emotions that your characters convey in the scene.”
In this video lesson Cecilia Varela addresses the topic: Color 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques. Create an illustrated story full of life with a unique style that combines multiple techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Color In this lesson, we will work on the topic of color. We will look for a suitable palette that transmits the atmosphere of our illustration. To work with color, we need to have a color wheel at hand. It can be a physical color wheel or we can look for one online. We can create a palette of cold colors. This includes blues, whites, grays. Or a palette of warm colors, yellows, reds, oranges. A palette of analogous colors, which are the ones close to each other, or a palette of contrast, opposites on the color wheel. When we paint, we don't necessarily do an illustration that is only a pal...”
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Course summary for: Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
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Category
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Collage, Gouache Painting, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Picturebook, Traditional illustration
Cecilia Varela
A course by Cecilia Varela
Cecilia Varela is a Córdoba-based (Argentina) illustrator and author of several children's books. Ever since she was a little girl, she knew she wanted to be an illustrator, a dream that grew out of her passion for children's books and stories. She studied at the National Institute of Fine Arts and specialized in drawing and painting.
She won first prize at the Mexican Illustrators Contest in 2007 and has since then collaborated with different publishers in Mexico and Spain, like Edelvives and Alfaguara. Cecilia creates her artwork by hand and then digitizes it for publishing. She uses a wide variety of techniques in her work, but most often creates with acrylics, gouache, collage, and colored pencils.
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