Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe
Enhance a simple palette
A course by Jazmin Varela , Illustrator, Cartoonist, and Tattoo Artist
About the video: Enhance a simple palette
Overview
“Starting with a Tarot de Marseille card, you will see how to work with a simple color palette by adjusting the properties of each tone.”
In this video lesson Jazmin Varela addresses the topic: Enhance a simple palette, 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
“Enhancing a Simple Palette Now that your color library's ready, let's learn how to apply it with some drawing exercises. In this lesson, we'll work with the Tarot of Marseilles. I suggest you think of a number from 0 to 21 and I'll add an image to Additional Resources with the Major Arcana so you can see what card you got. I chose these cards because the illustrations really caught my eye, they're simple and have a very limited color palette. They have between five and ten hues, depending on the deck. I chose number 11, so I'll work with this card which is Strength. To start the exercise, w...”
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Course summary for: Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe
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Category
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Areas
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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