Cinematic Digital Illustration with Photoshop
Texture Is Life
A course by Izzy Burton , Director, Artist, and Author
About the video: Texture Is Life
Overview
“This lesson is all about how I use texture to add life and tactile nature to my digital artwork, and how you can rely on texture to do a lot of the heavy lifting and make your life easier. ”
In this video lesson Izzy Burton addresses the topic: Texture Is Life, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cinematic Digital Illustration with Photoshop. Explore composition, color, and lighting to create compelling concept art inspired by photographic references.
Partial transcription of the video
“This lesson is all about how I use texture to add life and a tactile nature to my artwork. And how you can rely on texture to do a lot of the heavy lifting and make your life easier. I briefly touched on texture in the previous lesson about design. Texture is all about working out where we can add it so that it adds to the story and doesn't distract the eye from what our main subject is. We don't want to add so much detail and noise to our backgrounds that our eye doesn't know where to look. I find that with drawing digitally, artwork can very quickly look very flat and like it's being crea...”
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Course summary for: Cinematic Digital Illustration with Photoshop
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Concept Art, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration
Izzy Burton
A course by Izzy Burton
Izzy Burton is a director, artist, and author who specializes in animation and publishing. Growing up, she spent her time writing and illustrating stories, as well as filming short films with her mother’s video camera. She also had a natural ability for math and eventually went on to study computer visualization and animation, a degree that combined both her technical and creative talents, at Bournemouth University.
Since graduating first in her class and winning the Best Final Year Film award, Izzy has worked on everything from short film direction to children’s book illustrations. Most recently, she began working for Netflix Animation as a Lead Background Artist. She was also recognized as one of Animation Magazine’s Rising Stars in 2018 and has worked for clients including Cartoon Network, the BBC, McDonald's, Nickelodeon, Disney Advertising, Lego, and Penguin Random House.
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