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

“Colour Key Development In this lesson I'll develop the colour key and take the chosen thumbnail through to the colour stage. We can experiment with different palettes and lighting setups. Let's take a look. We've got four compositions here to work from. They're all quite strong. I'll talk you through those. Normally, you would go to an art director, and he or she would say, "Ok, maybe go for one, with this one, or several of them." You could take several through to the colour key stage, but this is a personal project, so I'll take the one that represents the story as clearly and as best as ...”

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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