Illustrated Ideas: Draw Your Inner Universe
Color and shade 2
A course by 72kilos , Illustrator and Cartoon Artist
About the video: Color and shade 2
Overview
“After coloring the entire vignette, we continue adding shadows to the different elements of it.”
In this video lesson 72kilos addresses the topic: Color and shade 2, 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 I've finished coloring my whole strip. And you might have noticed I made the decision to add some saturation to the sky. Originally, I was going for a more unsaturated version, but the result seemed way too violent. At least that’s what I thought. So what I did was duplicate my layer, lower the opacity almost halfway. It was a rough estimation, but I think the result looks good. It's a little sunset. I did a gradient, but I did it naturally, not mathematically. I've been laying strips of color with colors that were close together in the samples. Ano...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Ideas: Draw Your Inner Universe
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Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
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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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