Graphic Experimentation for Artistic Illustration
Retouch
A course by Santiago Guevara , Illustrator and Painter
Joined May 2012
Joined May 2012
About the video: Retouch
Overview
“After passing through the scanner or camera, your works require some retouching, adjustments and optimizations depending on the medium in which they are intended to be printed or reproduced. I will tell you about some of those details that can be very useful to you. ”
In this video lesson Santiago Guevara addresses the topic: Retouch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphic Experimentation for Artistic Illustration . Create images with watercolors, acrylics, pastels and other techniques and illustrate pieces that bring a text to life .
Partial transcription of the video
“Retouch We are nearing the end of the course. Digitized illustrations need touch-ups. Join me to make them. Retouching basically consists in which the characteristics of our image be the ones we want for her once we are manipulating it to make it ready for printing. I still have two layers. I will join the two layers that make up my document. I'm going to assemble them. And since I have them together, for image adjustments and retouching to affect the entire image, I need it to be a single layer, that's why I do it. At this point I usually do Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color. Someti...”
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Course summary for: Graphic Experimentation for Artistic Illustration
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Category
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Areas
Acrylic Painting, Communication, Creativity, Drawing, Editorial Illustration, Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Santiago Guevara
A course by Santiago Guevara
Illustrator Santiago Guevara graduated with a degree in graphic design from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá, Colombia. He combines his work as a freelance illustrator–primarily for children's books and young adult literature–with a teaching position in the art department at the Pontifical Xavierian University.
He has collaborated with magazines, newspapers, publishing companies, and both national and international clients. To date, he has published and co-authored numerous books with a variety of writers and companies, including Corazón de león by Antonio Ungar, Los irlandeses by Jairo Buitrago, La gata sola by Carolina Sanín, Soy asesino y padre de familia by Fabio Rubiano, and Los 16 motivos del lobo by Amalia Moreno.
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