Magical Realism for Children’s Illustration
Value and Tone 1
A course by Juanita Londoño Gaviria , Children’s Book and Editorial Illustrator
Joined October 2019
Joined October 2019
About the video: Value and Tone 1
Overview
“Now, let's focus on separating areas with tone and value to define contrast and the main areas of focus.”
In this video lesson Juanita Londoño Gaviria addresses the topic: Value and Tone 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Magical Realism for Children’s Illustration. Learn how to illustrate a magical scene for a children’s book by exploring colors and textures with Procreate or Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“Value and Tone Now we'll start painting our values. Values are what add contrast, dimension and form. Let's begin. VALUE & TONE I wanted to explain value before adding colors because value in itself should be easy to understand, but the inclusion of color can make it a challenging concept to grasp. Value is the lightness and darkness of a color. VALUE You can think about values on a scale or a gradient going from one to nine, one being completely white and nine being completely black. The number of values between white and black is infinite but thinking about this in a scale can make it...”
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Course summary for: Magical Realism for Children’s Illustration
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate -
Areas
Character Design, Children's Illustration, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Traditional illustration
Juanita Londoño Gaviria
A course by Juanita Londoño Gaviria
Juanita is a children’s book, editorial and commercial illustrator from Medellín, Colombia. She began her academic career studying fashion design at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, but after realizing her passion was in illustration, she went on to study animation concept art at the Vancouver Film School. The heart of her work is centered on children’s books, which have inspired her creativity since she was a young girl.
Her work has been recognized internationally, and she has worked with clients such as Target, American Greetings, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Quarto, and Maaji. She is currently represented by Advocate Art Agency, which has allowed her to take part in a variety of unique projects like illustrating the children’s books Health Heroes and The King and the Pearl.
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