Expressive Illustration Line by Line
Retouching
A course by Daniel Torrent Riba , Illustrator, Writer, and Educator
Joined September 2020
Joined September 2020
About the video: Retouching
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn how to put the finishing touches with Photoshop so that your illustration is ready for printing.”
In this video lesson Daniel Torrent Riba addresses the topic: Retouching, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Illustration Line by Line. Create illustrated picturebooks for kids (and adults) with evocative scenes made using colored pencils and pastels.
Partial transcription of the video
“Retouching In this lesson I am going to tell you how to retouch the image that we have made to make it perfect for printing. Let's see how. Now that we have the finished illustration, let's put the finishing touches on it in Photoshop to get it ready for printing. We are going to open the file that we had scanned. It is important with the pencil to have a good scanner because the pencil technique has a lot of gradients, it is very delicate and sometimes we are too contrasted, as in this case. Image, Image rotation, counterclockwise. You see Here the scanner has eaten up a lot of information...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Illustration Line by Line
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Colored Pencil Drawing, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Pencil Drawing, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Daniel Torrent Riba
A course by Daniel Torrent Riba
Dani Torrent is an illustrator, painter, and also a writer. He lives in Barcelona and has more than ten years' experience illustrating picture books, many of them self-authored. He studied film directing and that knowledge is reflected in the structure, pace, and composition of his creations, which embody the essence of a short film.
He has created illustrations for media outlets and advertising, but he is most well known for his creative work in the field of children’s and young adult literature. He has worked for Spanish publishing companies such as Edelvives, Kalandraka, Alfaguara, Cal.lígraf and Comanegra, but his artistic work has had a much greater impact on his career and led him to be a renowned illustrator. He has also published his work in France, Italy, Belgium, Mexico, China, Korea, and the United States.
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