Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style

Overview

“The colors in art nouveau are usually pastel and gray. This does not mean that we cannot innovate, but let's do it with some free applications that help us visualize the color scheme, that is, that they all combine. Also, in Photoshop I will teach you tools to vary the colors and find this palette, which will be of great help as a reference when starting the illustration.”

In this video lesson Celeste Vargas Hoshi addresses the topic: Color Palette, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style. Create a digital illustration in Photoshop based on a photograph, experimenting with a current and customized version of modernism.

Partial transcription of the video

“Color Palette In this lesson, I’ll give you some tips to define the color palette of our illustration. If we look carefully, the color palette in art nouveau illustrations tends to consist of pastel colors, as we can see here. Pastel or gray colors are usually achieved by playing with the saturation or brightness of the color. For example, if we were working with this range of red colors, and we compared it with when we play with the saturation… Control + U opens the Hue/Saturation window. …if I move this, it’s going to become more or less gray. The more saturated it is, and it’s at 100% ri...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Portraits in Art Nouveau Style

• Level: Beginner
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• 2693 students
• 4 units
• 32 lessons (7h 0m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Artistic Drawing, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing, Traditional illustration