Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe
Adding Colour: A Tree Doesn’t Have to Be Green 2
A course by Maddy Vian , Freelance Illustrator
About the video: Adding Colour: A Tree Doesn’t Have to Be Green 2
Overview
“Once I’ve got a rough idea of what colour most of the big elements are going to be, I begin using a mixture of brushes to create the outlined shapes that I have on a separate layer under my sketch. ”
In this video lesson Maddy Vian addresses the topic: Adding Colour: A Tree Doesn’t Have to Be Green 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe. Learn to illustrate an original story by combining digital and traditional illustration tools to create friendly characters and bold scenes.
Partial transcription of the video
“Adding Colour: A Tree Doesn't Have to Be Green Now we can go to another layer. I'm going to use this one underneath that purple layer and select our Rough Pastel again. I'm doing basic block colours at the moment. These will probably change drastically and I'm going to paint this bed shape here. You'll see because this is a layer behind this one, so if we hide that, you can see. Make sure that you are covering your little gaps. I'm not very neat with this. I will leave it like this much to art editor’s probable nightmares, but I find that thing a useful thing. Otherwise, you'll try and fill...”
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Course summary for: Illustration for Children’s Books: Creating a Joyful Universe
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Adobe Photoshop -
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Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Narrative, Picturebook, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Maddy Vian
A course by Maddy Vian
Maddy Vian is a UK-based freelance illustrator who immersed herself in drawing at a very young age. She was experimenting with drawing before she could even write, and eventually went on to study illustration and animation at Kingston University in London. There, she began sharing her work online and, after building a professional network of clients, took her freelance career full-time.
Maddy has worked on everything from art direction to packaging design and now specializes in illustrations for children’s books, where she focuses on bringing kindness to her creations to convey warmth and comfort to her readers. She has worked for brands including Penguin Random House, Ohh Deer, and Twitter UK.
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