Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
Applying Color
A course by Silja Goetz , Illustrator
About the video: Applying Color
Overview
“Here I finally find a color palette and apply it to my image. I will draw missing elements for my piece in Procreate and put it all together. It is high time I did something about the color now. Colour is 50% of an illustration’s success, I would say. So no pressure! I already know that I will keep it simple, just 3 tones and their variations. The natural coloring of Abu Simbel would be something camel. Let’s see how that would look: ”
In this video lesson Silja Goetz addresses the topic: Applying Color, which is part of the Domestika online course: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story. Learn the secrets of conceptual illustration to create an eye-catching book cover using analog and digital techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Applying colour In this lesson we are going to apply colour and still I don't have a clear idea what I'm really going to do with it. So I think I'll have to approach it by trial and error. So follow me while I'm making a few mistakes. So now that I'm happy with the composition, it's finally time to add the real colour. As we're treating a scene from Egypt, why not try a sand colour? Let's see how that would look. This makes it, to my mind, look very old fashioned. It gives it a colour of brown paper. I think this would lead us too much into a vintage edition direction because I want to take...”
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Course summary for: Book Cover Illustration: Unraveling the Essence of a Story
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Silja Goetz
A course by Silja Goetz
Silja has always loved to draw, and with the encouragement of her parents, she kept it up and decided early on that she wanted to become an illustrator. She studied Communication Design in Nüremberg while working as an illustrator for a magazine about animals for children, along with some work for magazines like Elle and Cosmopolitan.
Silja worked as a layout designer for Allegra Magazine (Germany) for over two years, where she learned to see illustration from an art director’s perspective. After deciding she wanted to create illustrations instead of working with the work of others, she took a leap of faith and moved to Spain, where she started working as a freelance illustrator.
She has worked with press clients like The New Yorker, Elle, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Die Zeit, Outdoor magazine, and more, as well as on advertising projects for clients like Estrella Damm. Her book cover illustrations adorn the books of publishers like Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Gräfe und Unzer, and Doubleday.
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