Texture Creation for Digital Illustration in Photoshop
Simple Shapes and Colour Choice
A course by Nicholas Stevenson , Illustrator, Animator, and University Lecturer
Joined May 2020
Joined May 2020
About the video: Simple Shapes and Colour Choice
Overview
“In this lesson we’ll start drawing out the shapes for our landscape, as we did for the still life.”
In this video lesson Nicholas Stevenson addresses the topic: Simple Shapes and Colour Choice, 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
“Simple Shapes and Color Choice Now, we'll create the simple shapes that build up our illustration, as we did in the still life exercise. Let's get to it. I've got here my thumbnail that we created. I'll keep that in front of me as I build the shapes. So let's start with this big tree, it's the most important thing. In the still life, we were concerned with making nice shapes that looked like the object, now we've got to think about that emotional perspective. So make sure things bow and bend, sit to whatever emotion you've chosen for your image. Using pencil this time, just because it's a b...”
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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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