Illustration and Character Development with Watercolor
Digital Retouching and Finishing
A course by Valentina Armstrong , Designer and Illustrator
Joined May 2020
Joined May 2020
About the video: Digital Retouching and Finishing
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll show you how to digitally touch up your illustration using some digital Photoshop tools. By finishing this process, you will get an illustrated character ready to spread! ”
In this video lesson Valentina Armstrong addresses the topic: Digital Retouching and Finishing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration and Character Development with Watercolor. Learn to create and draw characters with unique identities by experimenting with watercolors and colored pencils.
Partial transcription of the video
“Digital editing and finishing touches We're nearly ready with the course's final project. In this lesson I'll teach you to do digital editing. The first step to digitize our work is to scan the three elements we did in the previous lessons. You can scan it or take a good picture with your phone or a good camera. I'll scan it. I have my character and accessories. They are separate because of the size of my page because my scanner only scans A4 size maximum, similar to the size of a letter. We can check our image in more detail. And edit it. What I'll do, for example, I'd like the colors to b...”
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Course summary for: Illustration and Character Development with Watercolor
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Valentina Armstrong
A course by Valentina Armstrong
Valentina Armstrong is a designer and illustrator that has worked with brands like Basement, Aschehoug & Co, La Bonita Ediciones, and Sybilla. She specializes in creating illustrations using watercolors and other techniques like colored pencils to add accents.
She bases her characters on real-life people and captures their imperfect reality with watercolors and pencils. Both common traits and unique features are sources of inspiration that Valentina uses to imagine each character's inner world.
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