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Fantastical Illustrations with Procreate

Value Composition and Color Thumbnails

A course by Michael Relth , Freelance Animator, Illustrator, and Concept Artist

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About the video: Value Composition and Color Thumbnails

Overview

“Applying color to an illustration is hard! Let’s simplify things by just starting with value. Once you’ve chosen values that look good with your drawing, you can use your value decisions to inform your color choices. ”

In this video lesson Michael Relth addresses the topic: Value Composition and Color Thumbnails, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fantastical Illustrations with Procreate. Learn the essentials of storytelling, composition, and color to create your own fictional worlds.

Partial transcription of the video

“In the last lesson, we came up with a more finalized sketch using both line and shape. In this lesson, I'm going to be showing how to introduce color into your composition. Coming up with colors for an illustration is very difficult, so let's simplify things a little bit by only using value. at the beginning. Once we have solid values in place, we can use that to inform our color choices. I was pretty happy with where this was at. but I did make a few changes off camera, so I can show you that right now. She just felt a little bit small in frame and the space felt a little bit big. So I jus...”

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Course summary for: Fantastical Illustrations with Procreate

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (449)
17179 students
5 units
16 lessons (2h 50m)
16 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Procreate
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Michael Relth

A course by Michael Relth

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Freelance Animator, Illustrator, and Concept Artist

Michael Relth is a freelance animator, illustrator, and concept artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He’s been drawing since he was a child and, after graduating from ArtCenter College of Design with a BFA in Illustration, he turned his passion for art into a full-time career.

Throughout his career as a freelancer, Michael has worked in character animation, illustration, and visual development for a number of motion graphics studios as well as for clients including Procreate and Warner Animation. He also illustrated and published a book, Picture Book by Dog. As well as selling his sketches, paintings, and illustrations online, he shares them with over 50K followers on Instagram.