Natural Illustration with Digital Painting
Digital Painting: Shading and Highlights
A course by Jessica Roux , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Digital Painting: Shading and Highlights
Overview
“Now It’s time to add shading and highlights! This will really bring our characters to life.”
In this video lesson Jessica Roux addresses the topic: Digital Painting: Shading and Highlights, which is part of the Domestika online course: Natural Illustration with Digital Painting. Transform a botanical pencil sketch into a digital illustration using the storytelling properties of color.
Partial transcription of the video
“Digital Painting: Shading and Highlights Our final project now has color. In this lesson, I'll show you how to add shading and highlights to solid color element. Let's begin. The next step is the shading and highlights for each element. I do this by creating clipping masks. Each new layer is clipped to the flat color layer. I'll add a layer for shading any darker colors, a layer for highlights and various layers for different variations in color. I do this for each element, moving from the background to front until the artwork looks complete. I start with the bottom which is the stick layer...”
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Course summary for: Natural Illustration with Digital Painting
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration
Jessica Roux
A course by Jessica Roux
Jessica Roux is an American freelance illustrator and self-described plant and animal enthusiast. She has been drawing and painting since she was a child when her parents would set up easels in her backyard. She also spent a lot of time exploring the woods in North Carolina, which sparked her love of nature at an early age. Jessica went on to study illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design and, after graduating, began working as a freelance illustrator, combining her love of illustration and nature.
Since then, Jessica’s designs have been transformed into everything from prints to stickers and cards, and she has illustrated various books, including one of her own, Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers. Her work has also appeared in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as publications including The New Yorker and Taproot Magazine.
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