Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration
Painting the Background
A course by Jon Berkeley , Illustrator and Author
About the video: Painting the Background
Overview
“The background may be painted at this stage, especially if it features textures. Making textures can get enjoyably messy, making it difficult to achieve clean edges painting the background first allows us to overlap a little, and tidy up the edges later when painting foreground objects and figures.”
In this video lesson Jon Berkeley addresses the topic: Painting the Background, 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 the Background Now our figure is mapped out, and we'll leave it alone for now and we'll work on the background. This is where we can really experiment with the acrylic paint and the textures and effects you can achieve with it. I'll demonstrate a technique that I like to introduce some interesting texture to the background. We start here with a colour that's a little darker than what I want the finished background colour to be. As I mentioned in an earlier lesson, I'm going to go for warm colours that are kind of in the same region as flesh tones. Not exactly flesh tones, but warme...”
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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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