Cinematic Digital Illustration with Photoshop
Sketching Your Layout - Line vs. Shape 2
A course by Izzy Burton , Director, Artist, and Author
About the video: Sketching Your Layout - Line vs. Shape 2
Overview
“Now I will pick the base block colour that will act as a foundation for all your painting to come. ”
In this video lesson Izzy Burton addresses the topic: Sketching Your Layout - Line vs. Shape 2, 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
“Sketching Your Layout Line vs Shape Let's get started. First, I'll fill my canvas with a colour that I feel like represents my image. For me, this is a stormy day and I want there to be a lovely kind of turquoise, but almost in a grey tone background. A big area of this image is the floor plane, it's covered by houses. I'm gonna super rough it in like that and I'm gonna fill it with a nice dark green. Yeah, I quite like that. There's a lot of orange in the image, but we'll add that later when we get into colour and more texture things. There's my ground plane. What I could do now is name th...”
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Course summary for: Cinematic Digital Illustration with Photoshop
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Category
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Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
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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