Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll demonstrate an alternate way to colour a sketch, using colours that have a lot of contrast - allowing certain elements of the piece to be highlighted more dramatically. We’ll also cover a quick way to test colours out before committing them to the final piece.”

In this video lesson James Chapman addresses the topic: Complementary Colours, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color. Explore your imagination and create vibrant illustrations with acrylic paint markers.

Partial transcription of the video

“Complementary colours Now we'll talk about complementary colours and colouring one of our previous sketches with opposite colours of the colour wheel to add contrast. The colour wheel is a way of arranging colours to see which ones work together and which don't. Here I've got one laid out using the Posca pens available and we have warm colours on one side and cool colours on the other. Moving from the inside to the outside they get more saturated and darker. Considering the colour wheel, we can use colours from opposite sides to create contrast. This can be used to highlight areas and blend...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (184)
• 3868 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 29m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration