Acrylic Techniques for Creative Illustration
The Main Feature 1
A course by Jon Berkeley , Illustrator and Author
About the video: The Main Feature 1
Overview
“In painting the foreground features we work up from areas of shadow, through the mid-tones and finishing off with the highlights. This is more a general principle than a hard and fast rule”
In this video lesson Jon Berkeley addresses the topic: The Main Feature 1, 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
“The Main Feature Now it's time for the main feature. This is where all we've learned comes together and you begin to create your final masterpiece. We're going to start painting the face and it might be daunting to find a place where to start, but what I'm going to do is, referring to our photographic reference here, I'm going to pick a starting tone, a flesh tone, which I'm mixing with red, yellow and white. I'll start applying that and as we have learned, as we did with the colour exercise, we are going to compare every other colour as we work, comparing it for tone and for colour as well...”
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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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