Digital Painting for 2D Illustration

Overview

“In this lesson, you will learn about the importance of a colour key and a little about the theory behind it, why they exist, and how they have become more useful and varied within the industry. ”

In this video lesson Matt Sanz addresses the topic: Colour Keys, Importance and Understanding, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Painting for 2D Illustration. Learn how to create conceptual story-driven illustrations for video games and animation.

Partial transcription of the video

“Colour Keys Importance and Understanding In this lesson I'll describe what a colour key actually is. Many artists in the industry use colour keys as a preliminary concept for the illustration they'll make. Major motion animation studios use colour keys super effectively for a number of reasons. You're gonna see why. So these are small colour keys here. It's good to see a different variety, a different perspective via different studios, and how they handle the stage of adding colour to a project. This is by Alfonso Blaas down in the corner, and you can see it's a DreamWorks project, "3 Below...”

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Course summary for: Digital Painting for 2D Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (194)
• 5484 students
• 5 units
• 23 lessons (4h 37m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration