Illustrated Ideas: Draw Your Inner Universe
Color and shade 1
A course by 72kilos , Illustrator and Cartoon Artist
About the video: Color and shade 1
Overview
“Next, we will put color and shade to the digitized vignette in the previous lesson, seeking harmony with the message and enjoying the process to the fullest. Your cartoon will come to life!”
In this video lesson 72kilos addresses the topic: Color and shade 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Ideas: Draw Your Inner Universe . Combine texts and images to create comic strips that tell a simple, powerful and heartfelt story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Color and Shadow THE WORLD IS SUCH A GIFT In this lesson, I'm going to show you how I color each of my strips and also how we can shade it to add that sense of depth. This wonderful process is where you add character to your strip. We have so many options to color our work. In my experience, I always try using pastels or other less saturated colors. But this time, we’re going to go for a more saturated palette. But you’ll notice we’ll blend them both. The color adds personality. Depending on what we want to say, we can resort to one palette or another. In this case, from the very start I pr...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Ideas: Draw Your Inner Universe
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Instagram, Social Media, Traditional illustration

72kilos
A course by 72kilos
Óscar Alonso, better known as 72kilos, is an illustrator and cartoon artist. He uses his drawings to recount the events of his day-to-day life and share his inner universe with nearly two million followers on Instagram. Thanks to his inspiring illustrations, he has collaborated with big-name brands such as adidas, Amnesty International, and the Spanish Red Cross.
He also has thirteen years of experience working in creative advertising, where he developed the ability to quickly generate lots of new ideas and adapt them to contexts with limited time and space. This experience also gave him the skill set he needed to successfully launch and develop his career as an illustrator.
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