Children’s Publications: Editorial Design and Illustration
Working with a Limited Color Palette
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz , Illustrator
About the video: Working with a Limited Color Palette
Overview
“Now, I will be using three grayscale tones to color my sketch. This is a great exercise to practice contrast and clarity in your images. By the end of the lesson, I will have a final version of my project in black and white. ”
In this video lesson Jimena S. Sarquiz addresses the topic: Working with a Limited Color Palette , which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Publications: Editorial Design and Illustration. Inspire young minds by learning how to create magical illustrations for children’s publications with digital tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Working with a Limited Color Palette If you want to practice contrast, it's best to start by focusing on value working on black and white images. A great exercise I learned from another illustrator was to try and make an illustration using as few colors as possible. I'm going to show you how to do that with your sketch. If you want to practice contrast in your illustrations, it's best to start with focusing on value by working on black and white images. I'm going to color this illustration using only grayscale tones. A great exercise to try when you're drawing in grayscale is to try and l...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Publications: Editorial Design and Illustration
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Character Design, Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration
Jimena S. Sarquiz
A course by Jimena S. Sarquiz
Jimena S. Sarquiz is a freelance illustrator specializing in the illustration of books for children and young people. During her career, she has had the opportunity to illustrate books for different publishers in Mexico, the United States, and Europe, as well as different magazines from Editorial Televisa (Mexico). In 2010, she illustrated her first children's book. Since then, she has illustrated ten more, mostly for publishers in Mexico.
Jimena is an active participant in comic events and design fairs, where she sells her illustrations. Her work can be found on social media under the name Monitos Bonitos.
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