Digital Shading Techniques
Lights and shadows - Part I
A course by Abraham García , Illustrator
Learn to illustrate with different patterns, hatching, and strokes using Illustrator and Photoshop
- English, Spanish
- 98% positive reviews (712)
- 11015 students
About the video: Lights and shadows - Part I
Overview
“One of the basic fundamentals of this course is to know how to create lights and shadows on different surfaces to give an illusion of volume to our illustrations. We will do a couple of exercises where I will show you how to do it. ”
In this video lesson Abraham García addresses the topic: Lights and shadows - Part I, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Shading Techniques. Learn to illustrate with different patterns, hatching, and strokes using Illustrator and Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson Let's do a little exercises Using simple polygons in illustrator Let's add what are lights and shadows And we'll explain a bit the technique Of (inaudible) Illustrator I hope you have practiced what we saw in past lessons Because the time has come to practice it With a little exercise That exercise is very simple It's more than anything for you And to become familiar with the tools that we have been using Let's add lights and shadows to very basic figures As for example this circle. The error to everything is� Make it a sphere. We are going to use the tools that I presented t...”
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Course summary for: Digital Shading Techniques
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Engraving, Traditional illustration
A course by Abraham García
Abraham García is a graphic designer who specializes in illustration but also enjoys experimenting with a wide variety of traditional and digital techniques.
Over the last ten years, he has worked with advertising agencies like Grupo W in Saltillo, Mexico, and Vault 49 in New York, where he currently works as a freelance artist. Throughout this time, he has developed projects for branding, packaging, illustration, web design, album covers, and more.
Some of Abraham’s clients include Harley Davidson, Gatorade, Jack Daniel’s, Volkswagen, Bicycle Cards, and publications such as Picnic, Quo, and Travel and Leisure.
Abraham is also passionate about tattoos, caricatures, graffiti, film, and comics. He enjoys working with his hands on projects involving carpentry, industrial design, and metal structures. For him, “As designers, we are the result of our interests and passions.”
- 98% positive reviews (712)
- 11015 students
- 22 lessons (4h 5m)
- 15 additional resources (11 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English, Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
- Level: Intermediate
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