Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art
Combining Texture and Colour
A course by Melanie Chadwick , Illustrator
Joined September 2020
About the video: Combining Texture and Colour
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll show you how I combine the textures with the colour. I’ll show you step by step by using clipping masks and the opacity tool. ”
In this video lesson Melanie Chadwick addresses the topic: Combining Texture and Colour , which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art. Learn how to illustrate food by mixing digital and analog techniques to make your creations richer and tastier.
Partial transcription of the video
“Combining texture and colour In this lesson we are going to be now combining texture and colour. Let me show you how. I will show you my steps to create these textured illustrations within Illustrator just using the Clipping Mask and the Opacity tool. I've coloured all of my illustrations now, using the Vegetable colour palette, which we talked about earlier. And I've also created another colour palette by pulling out some of these colours. I've created a specific colour palette that matches the Ruby Red salad that I'm gonna be creating. Some of you will notice that some of these objects ha...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Recipes: Making Delicious Art
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Category
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Infographics, Ink Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration, Vector Illustration

Melanie Chadwick
A course by Melanie Chadwick
Melanie Chadwick is a freelance illustrator and designer currently based in Cornwall, UK. She specializes in map and food illustration and enjoys mixing analog and digital techniques in her work.
She has worked with numerous clients across a range of projects including book illustration, food packaging, restaurant menus, magazine editorials, branding projects, maps, greeting cards, postcards, and more. Her clients include Cornish Seasalt, Foodimentary, Ferment Magazine, American Airlines, and Virgin Atlantic, among others.
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