Artistic Illustration: From Drawing to Digital
Colour and Composition
A course by Paul Scheruebel , Painter, Illustrator, and Graphic Designer
About the video: Colour and Composition
Overview
“Let's take a look at some basic composition principles and my approach to choosing colour schemes.”
In this video lesson Paul Scheruebel addresses the topic: Colour and Composition, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Illustration: From Drawing to Digital. Experiment with illustration by creating artwork with charcoal and gouache paint then digitizing it on Photoshop to create striking images.
Partial transcription of the video
“Colour and composition In this lesson we'll look at color and composition. In composition there are some basic rules that'll help you make your compositions look more tight and more considered. So, one of these rules is to avoid equal proportions. So, do not divide your format in half. Do not have an equal distribution of light and dark in your image. Try not to have too many objects of the same size in your image. Let me show you in a couple of practical sketches what this means. For example, the division of space. Let's see what happens if you divide the space in your format equally. So, ...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Illustration: From Drawing to Digital
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Traditional illustration
Paul Scheruebel
A course by Paul Scheruebel
After studying graphic design in university in Austria (and a brief stint as a jazz musician), Paul Scherübel began working as an editorial graphic designer for the Austrian magazine Graz. Wanting to improve his artistic abilities, he moved to London to study illustration in the University of Westminster, where he developed his eclectic and experimental style.
He has since done illustrations for magazines, theater productions, and companies like The Folio Society, Austria Microsystems, and the Swiss Engineering Institute. He has also been featured in Images: Best of British Illustration, Spectrum 26: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, and 3×3: The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration.
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