Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe
A course by Jazmin Varela , Illustrator, Cartoonist, and Tattoo Artist
Create your own library of color palettes to apply to your illustrations using mixed techniques
What colors paint your creative world? When it comes to expressing ourselves, color is a powerful, versatile tool and an exciting challenge to master. Illustrator, cartoonist, and tattoo artist Jazmín Varela specializes in expressing ideas through imagery and color experimentation.
In this course, she teaches you to develop a color library inspired by your own life. The first step to refining your artistic eye is to work on your awareness of what certain colors evoke and then use it to intensify, balance, or break the rules of traditional color theory.
What will you learn in this online course?
13 lessons & 18 downloads
- 98% positive reviews (154)
- 2,962 students
- 13 lessons (2h 10m)
- 18 additional resources (8 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch · Turkish · Romanian · Indonesian
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Compile your own catalogue of colors and explore their application over a range of illustrations.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Illustrators, sketch artists, graphic artists, and anyone interested in enriching their perception and use of color.
Requirements and materials
Some basic knowledge of drawing and use of acrylics, gouache, pencils, or watercolor crayons would be ideal although not essential.
In terms of materials, you need a heavyweight paper sketchbook suitable for a range of techniques, your preferred artistic materials, and a camera or smartphone.
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Jazmin Varela
A course by Jazmin Varela
Jazmín Varela is an illustrator, cartoonist, and tattoo artist. She has been working as an editorial illustrator since 2010 and works on personal projects for exhibitions in parallel. In 2018, she also started to tattoo in her own studio.
Some of her published works include Crisis capila (Editorial Municipal de Rosario 2016), Guerra de soda (Maten al Mensajero, 2017), Tengo unas flores con tu nombre (Maten al Mensajero, 2018), and Cotillón (Maten al Mensajero y Sigilo España, 2020). She is an integral part of the Cuadrilla Feminista, a graphic artist collective from Rosario, and cofounder of the Festival Furioso de Dibujo.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences
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U2
How to prepare before you start
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Materials
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Color: the basics
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The inaccuracies of the color wheel
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U3
Documentation and training
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Color gym: train the look
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Personal Color Library
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Personal Color Library: Experimental Sections
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U4
Apply and assemble your palettes
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Enhance a simple palette
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Enhance a complex palette
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Still life: everyday objects
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Night scenery
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Crowd: wide palette
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FP
Final project
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Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe
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Es un curso interesante. Lo recomiendo.
Very cool Course!
El curso está muy bien. Es entretenido y lo disfruté mucho. Lo que es lamentable es que se salten segundos del proceso y que se vea entrecortado. Lo interesante es ver cómo la profesora va haciendo sus ilustraciones. Por favor Domestika no se ahorren unos pocos segundos!! Enseñen los procesos completos
Recomendable. Siempre es inspirador aprender de otros artistas su uso y exploración del color. Me ha gustado mucho.
El curso es muy interesante porque propone una manera de buscar una paleta propia mientras armamos una biblioteca de color. Está muy bien explicado y los ejercicios son fáciles de replicar. Lo recomiendo a todos los que les interesa la teoría del color.