Color Palette Creation: Paint Your Personal Universe
Enhance a complex palette
A course by Jazmin Varela , Illustrator, Cartoonist, and Tattoo Artist
About the video: Enhance a complex palette
Overview
“Now you will increase the complexity of the exercises. You will work from a frame of film adjusting each hue to translate them to the colors in your library. ”
In this video lesson Jazmin Varela addresses the topic: Enhance a complex 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 Complex Palette Now we'll do more complex exercises, and in this lesson we'll work with a movie frame. To start, choose a movie that catches your eye due to how it uses color. Choose a scene in that movie, capture an image, and print it out. We'll analyze that scene from a color perspective. I brought five examples of movies I like because of how they use color. They all have very complex palettes in which the colors blend and there's depth. This is the first image I chose, in which we see a woman in the middle of the shot. The palette is comprised of warm colors that contrast 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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