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
“In this lesson, I'll be talking about basic fundamentals. I'll be giving a general overview of color, value and lighting and how they can impact the illustration. And after that, I'll be laying down my base colours. So when picking colors, I think of the color the saturation and the brightness, which is also known as HSB. So color is basically hue, which is the H in HSB. Saturation is saturation. How intense the color is. So for example, So I've chosen a red color here, which is the hue. But then you can also reduce the saturation of the red by just sliding down here. So as you can see the ...”
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Course summary for: Powerful Female Characters: Illustrating Confidence and Diversity
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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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