Children's Narrative Illustration with Mixed Techniques
Digital Retouch
A course by Cecilia Varela , Illustrator Specializing in Children's Illustrations
Joined April 2020
Joined April 2020
About the video: Digital Retouch
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn some basic Photoshop tools for retouching and adjusting your image. This will allow you to make it as close as possible to the original and prepare it, either to make a printed reproduction, or to publish it on your social networks or website. ”
In this video lesson Cecilia Varela addresses the topic: Digital Retouch, 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
“Digital Retouching Now that we've finished our illustration, we'll do the digital retouching. First, we need to scan the illustration. Since my illustration was made on an A3 size sheet of paper, it won't fit on my scanner, so I have to scan it in parts. Scanners usually synthesize colors by similar pixels, so we often lose some color when scanning. This usually happens when the scanner isn't very good. This doesn't happen in photo scanners and we're able to get our true colors. You can also take a photo of your illustration. If the intention is to print your image, you should have it scann...”
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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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