Digital Painting for 2D Illustration

Overview

“In this lesson, you will learn how to add colour to a thumbnail, how to be quick and efficient, and apply the theory we learned earlier about the colour keys, this stage is still a super foundational one so it is important to still explore the image as the elements of your image are developing. ”

In this video lesson Matt Sanz addresses the topic: Colour Key Development 1, 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

“In this lesson, you'll see me develop the color key and take the chosen thumbnail through to the color stage. We can experiment here with different palettes and different lighting setups. Let's take a look. We've got four compositions here to work from. I think they're all quite strong. I'll talk you through those. Normally what would happen, you would go to an art director and he or she would say, okay, go for one with this one. or several of them, you could take several through to the color key stage, but this is just a personal project. So I'm just going to take the one that I think repr...”

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Course summary for: Digital Painting for 2D Illustration

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (196)
• 5516 students
• 5 units
• 23 lessons (4h 37m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration