Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration
Painting Techniques 2
A course by Jon Berkeley , Illustrator and Author
About the video: Painting Techniques 2
Overview
“We follow up with more on painting techniques.”
In this video lesson Jon Berkeley addresses the topic: Painting Techniques 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration. Use your imagination to develop a conceptual illustration from start to finish using acrylic paints.
Partial transcription of the video
“Painting Techniques There are two basic ways that you can blend colours in acrylic. Unlike other paint, which is very slow drying, where you can work a lot wet into wet, acrylic dries so quickly the opportunities of working wet into wet are less. But you can mix colours to some extent that way. When you've just applied the colour it will be wet for a few seconds. So if you add, for instance, an area of mid-tone here and you want to add some lighter tone next to it, you should be able to blend it in a little bit. A more useful technique with acrylic for graduating from one colour to another ...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Acrylic Painting, Creativity, Painting, Traditional illustration
Jon Berkeley
A course by Jon Berkeley
Jon Berkeley is an Irish illustrator and children’s author who has worked in the field for almost three decades and traveled to places like London, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Barcelona for illustration work. His passion for illustration began in his youth during the vinyl era, amazed by the artwork that adorned his favorite album covers, prompting him to further his intrigue and study Fine Art in Dublin, Ireland.
Most of his work is for editorial clients in major news and current affairs magazines like L’Express, The New Statesman, Volkskrant, The Economist, and others. He also works on major advertising campaigns and illustrates book jackets, packaging, as well as commissioned portraits for clients like Ted Baker, Vodafone, and Smirnoff.
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