Cinematic Digital Illustration with Photoshop
What’s Next?
A course by Izzy Burton , Director, Artist, and Author
About the video: What’s Next?
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll talk about the different challenges I set myself, and how to use photo studies as a valuable part of your art journey as you learn and get better. I’ll also talk about how photo studies have helped my work in my animation career. ”
In this video lesson Izzy Burton addresses the topic: What’s Next?, 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
“What's Next In this lesson, we'll see the challenges I set myself. I'll set out how to use photo studies as part of your art journey as you learn and get better. I'll talk about how photo studies have helped me with my career. Although this course is completed, you can do more with photo studies. I like to set myself challenges to keep it fresh and push myself to learn different areas of art and techniques. One of the main things I do is set myself time limits. The lighthouse piece I showed you in previous lessons, I did with the time limit of 1.5 hours. It was great for me to do this becau...”
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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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