Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe
Color: the basics
A course by Jazmin Varela , Illustrator, Cartoonist, and Tattoo Artist
About the video: Color: the basics
Overview
“I will tell you about some basic concepts around color that you will use throughout the course and they will be useful to understand how color works and what properties it has. ”
In this video lesson Jazmin Varela addresses the topic: Color: the basics, which is part of the Domestika online course: Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe. Create your own library of color palettes to apply to your illustrations using mixed techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Color: Basic Concepts In this lesson, we'll talk about some basic color concepts to understand how they work and their properties. Let's go. To understand color, you need to know that color is light, and light has different wavelengths. We see the ones found in the visible spectrum. We see objects a certain color depending on the way light is absorbed or reflected off the surface of that object. For example, when we say an object is blue, it means the wavelengths in the visible spectrum are all absorbed by the object except for the wavelength that corresponds to blue, which is reflected and...”
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Course summary for: Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe
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Artistic Drawing, Color Theory, Drawing, Painting, Traditional illustration

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.
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