Artistic Illustration Techniques: from Concept to Drawing
Application of textures
A course by Vicente Martí Solar , Illustrator and Visual Artist
Joined April 2020
About the video: Application of textures
Overview
“I will teach you to apply texture in a correct and attractive way, with the aim of reinforcing the sense of visual unity of the illustration and giving organicity to your work. ”
In this video lesson Vicente Martí Solar addresses the topic: Application of textures, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Illustration Techniques: from Concept to Drawing. Learn to build bridges between different artistic disciplines to create powerful illustrations based on a book, a film or a song.
Partial transcription of the video
“Application of textures In this lesson I will teach you how to occupy textures properly to achieve an organic and very striking result. First of all, we are going to group our layers and we will order them in a folder. All these correspond to the main character. We will do the same with Left Hand and with right hand. We will do something similar to what we did when we worked with chromatics. We will apply a focused texture on the hands and on the character, and later we will make a general texture application. The first thing we will do is look in the Textures folder. We will mainly work wi...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Illustration Techniques: from Concept to Drawing
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Drawing, Traditional illustration

Vicente Martí Solar
A course by Vicente Martí Solar
From an early age Vicente Martí felt extremely drawn to shapes and colors. He originally studied graphic design and went on to work in several advertising agencies, all the while building his personal catalog of illustrations. He later decided to go back to college to study art.
Through his collaboration with a Chilean magazine, he started getting job requests from other national media outlets, which led to working for bigger and bigger international clients. He has had the chance to collaborate with Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, CNN, Adweek, and even branch out to other industries like gastronomy and health.
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