Cinematic Digital Illustration with Photoshop
Adding Texture and Colour Variation 2
A course by Izzy Burton , Director, Artist, and Author
About the video: Adding Texture and Colour Variation 2
Overview
“Now I will discuss how to play with different textures for different surfaces, and how these textures can help you out a lot later.”
In this video lesson Izzy Burton addresses the topic: Adding Texture and Colour Variation 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
“Adding Texture and Colour Variation In this image, we'll keep adding those colours. There's a lot more brown in this greener area here. These windows even have got more brown. This area of the image isn't that exciting, so we might crop even some of this out. Let's go down to our ground plane. We'll lock the pixels again. I'm gonna go to the Scratchy Gouache brush again. You'll see a lot of reflection from the sky in the ground. This is gonna be a balancing act to get this working with the values. We might just work back and forth how bright this is, but we want this idea that the ground is...”
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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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