Fantastical Illustrations with Procreate
Painting Smaller Shapes Within Layers
A course by Michael Relth , Freelance Animator, Illustrator, and Concept Artist
Joined April 2021
About the video: Painting Smaller Shapes Within Layers
Overview
“These are the last, most time-intensive, and most fun steps in the process. You will create silhouettes on layers for different parts of your scene, and begin painting within those silhouettes. ”
In this video lesson Michael Relth addresses the topic: Painting Smaller Shapes Within Layers, 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
“Painting Smaller Shapes with Layers In the previous lesson, we created layers and painted gradients into those layers to create a basic sense of lighting. In this lesson, we'll take bigger shapes and break them up into smaller shapes to have an even better sense of the lighting. The next step, just like the painting demo, will be breaking up the larger shapes and gradients into smaller shapes. It looks like the plants in the foreground are getting flat, so let's do something about that. They would catch a little bit of a reflection. Maybe not quite that drastic. Something like that would be...”
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Course summary for: Fantastical Illustrations with Procreate
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Category
Illustration -
Software
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Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Michael Relth
A course by Michael Relth
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.
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