Texture Creation for Digital Illustration in Photoshop
Colour Fill
A course by Nicholas Stevenson , Illustrator, Animator, and University Lecturer
Joined May 2020
About the video: Colour Fill
Overview
“Here I will show how to bring colour into your textures.”
In this video lesson Nicholas Stevenson addresses the topic: Colour Fill, which is part of the Domestika online course: Texture Creation for Digital Illustration in Photoshop. Create unique illustrations full of texture and mood using brushes, ink, objects, and prints.
Partial transcription of the video
“Colour Fill You know now how to work in grayscale. But what if we add colour to the texture? That's what we're going to work on here, let's go. There's a few ways we could add colour textures to this image. Let's try and add a texture to the pineapple here. Let's go to my old sketchbook cover, which has an almost pineapplely kind of marble to it which we could use this. This time, get the Magic Wand. I'm going to select a black area and I'm going to right click in that. I'm going to click Similar. And what that does is it will select everything that is black on the image. And then I'm going...”
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Course summary for: Texture Creation for Digital Illustration in Photoshop
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Nicholas Stevenson
A course by Nicholas Stevenson
Nicholas Stevenson is a UK-based illustrator and animator known for his magical and atmospheric textured images. Using old books, papers, and prints, he creates unique, handmade textures that are used to create digital illustrations with added authenticity and emotion.
Nicholas is a lecturer at Hereford College of Arts in the UK. He has illustrated for leading publications and brands including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Google Arts & Culture, and Save the Children. His work can also be found in non-fiction children’s books and on a wide variety of album covers.
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