Digital Painting for 2D Illustration
Clean-up Sketch 1
A course by Matt Sanz , Visual Development Artist
About the video: Clean-up Sketch 1
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn the importance of a cleanup sketch and why it is, occasionally, necessary. It is again another foundational step so it is important to keep exploring even if you’ve already chosen a thumbnail. ”
In this video lesson Matt Sanz addresses the topic: Clean-up Sketch 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
“Clean Up Sketch In this lesson we'll talk about cleaning up the sketch. You can ignore the colour key for now, bring back the original thumbnail, and we'll clean up that sketch. Let's see how we do that. I did five all together. You've seen two or three of these. They're not all that different. I knew they would be primarily blue, that there would be a complementary warm colour, it wouldn't be a triadic colour scheme, or a monochromatic colour scheme. It was going to be complementary because I wanted that harsh on and off, that feeling of despair in the background, and hope in the foregroun...”
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Course summary for: Digital Painting for 2D Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Matt Sanz
A course by Matt Sanz
Matt Sanz is a visual development artist specializing in video games and animation. Based in the UK, his freelance work as a 2D artist and creative director has led him to develop unique visual concepts for a wide range of clients, including BOB, Friday Sundae, IGG, Amazon Games, and more.
Matt graduated with a degree in Game Design and accepted a position as Lead Concept Artist for a studio in China shortly after, opening up a wide range of international opportunities. You can find Matt’s work online and at Artstation.
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