Powerful Female Characters: Illustrating Confidence and Diversity
Basic Fundamentals and Laying Down Colour
A course by Eunice Adeyi , Digital Illustrator
About the video: Basic Fundamentals and Laying Down Colour
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll add the base colours and discuss key fundamentals to know when trying to create realistic rendering.”
In this video lesson Eunice Adeyi addresses the topic: Basic Fundamentals and Laying Down Colour, which is part of the Domestika online course: Powerful Female Characters: Illustrating Confidence and Diversity. Learn to create strong and expressive female characters by exploring anatomy, color theory, and proportions in Procreate.
Partial transcription of the video
“Basic Fundamentals and Laying Down Colour In this lesson, I'll be talking about basic fundamentals. I'll be giving a general overview of colour, value and lighting and how they can impact your illustration. After that, I'll be laying down my base colours. When picking colours, I think of the colour, the saturation and the brightness, which is also known as HSB. Colour is basically hue, which is the H in HSB. Saturation is how intense the colour is. I've chosen a red colour here, which is the hue, but then you can also reduce the saturation of the red by sliding down here. As you can see, th...”
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Course summary for: Powerful Female Characters: Illustrating Confidence and Diversity
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Procreate -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Painting, Traditional illustration

Eunice Adeyi
A course by Eunice Adeyi
Eunice Adeyi is a Nigerian-born digital illustrator based in the UK. She taught herself the skills needed to create professional portraits during her time at design school where she was studying to be an interior designer. Since then, she’s used her expertise to create artwork for brand commissions and personal projects for her six-figure Instagram account.
Eunice specializes in painting strong female characters which are designed to evoke confidence in women and has collaborated with brands including Pipsticks, Refinery29, and Fairyloot.
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