Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color

Overview

“Now, we’re going to take our colour scheme to an absolute extreme, by reducing it to only two or three colours. If you don’t have a huge range of colours in your pen selection, this is great technique to learn as it allows you to create deceptively simple illustrations with the use of bold shapes and clever use of light and shadow.”

In this video lesson James Chapman addresses the topic: A Simplified Screenprint Palette, 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

“A simplified screenprint palette In this lesson we'll use a simplified screenprint palette. We'll use two or three colours for the entire picture and just see how much we can create with a limited amount of options. This is how I started with Posca pens, as my collection only had a few pens at my disposal and tried to create pictures with only a few colours. It was a challenge, but you leave your comfort zone, you try new things, and work in a graphic design style. We'll be using colours on the colour wheel at different levels from the centre. We'll take lighter colours from the centre and ...”

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Course summary for: Illustrated Sketchbooking in Full Color

• Level: Beginner
• 99% positive reviews (198)
• 4327 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 29m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration