Animated Illustrations in Photoshop: Create Unique Atmospheres

Overview

“In this lesson, we'll take a reference photo and draw it. This way, I will be able to show you how I work in Photoshop and explain the tools that I mainly use. This exercise is important for warming up and putting into practice the first techniques that I am going to show you. So I will start by making a sketch of my image, then I will color my character.”

In this video lesson Dylan Eurlings addresses the topic: Translate a photo into a sketch 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated Illustrations in Photoshop: Create Unique Atmospheres. Design an animated illustration with a unique atmosphere, frame by frame, with Photoshop.

Partial transcription of the video

“Translate a photo into a sketch In this lesson, we will start with a little warm-up exercise. We will use a reference photo that we will redraw. This exercise should be seen as a warm-up what would an athlete do before a match. For me, it's also a pretext to show you the tools in Photoshop. Let's go ! So, we open a new document, I do Ctrl + N. And here, we will enter the resolution. We don't need to have too high a resolution since we are not going to go into much detail, you will see. Here I place my two windows, so my reference on one side and my canvas for working on the other. I have al...”

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Course summary for: Animated Illustrations in Photoshop: Create Unique Atmospheres

• Level: Beginner
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• 1584 students
• 4 units
• 34 lessons (8h 31m)
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• Category

  3D & Animation, Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  2D Animation, Animation, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration